An old co-worker of mine was very close with a good number of HPD officers back when this happened. The crime scene was about 2 miles from where I was living at the time, and one day, probably a little more than a year after it happened, we were just casually talking about it and he reached in to his backpack and drops this stack of paper about 3 inches think on his desk. He then said "Here's the crime scene report and all the interviews they've done on that case up to this point. You can read it, but don't tell anyone at all that you've seen this. It would jam me up with my buddy and definitely jam him up with the department, so this is our secret."
I took it home that night and dove in and it was, no question, the most engrossing thing I've ever read. There were names, addresses, workplaces and phone numbers of all the key players...friends, family, exes, etc. I wouldn't make a very good cop because while I was reading, there were a number of interviews that you just come away from thinking "It's gotta be this person. This is the person that killed them" and you just keep waiting for an arrest and it never happened. I read the majority of the 500+ pages that first night and finished it the next. And then, everyone I encountered out on that end of town was a suspect as far as I was concerned.
I pray they've got this right. Their poor families need closure.
Gig 'Em
