"The 1978 Huling family murder was unsolved for 16 years until it was handed over to the BCA Cold Case Unit and solved on the first day." Oh my --unbelievable. You made another valuable point I hadn't considered -- that solving sexual homicide cases takes a great deal of specific experience in that particular area. What a tragedy, though, that those resources were not called in sooner. I know of several recent similar cases in which outside resources were immediately called in and they were quickly solved. I imagine law enforcement can't always piece it together in their minds the probability of a particular case being the work of a sex offender. In most cases of missing young people, I at least evaluate that possibility right from the start. However, now we have this trend in the mid-west of intoxicated young men drowning in lakes, which still mystifies me. I have to wonder if this precedent doesn't taint law enforcement's thinking when initially evaluating a missing person's case, such as Josh's. It would have served the case much better, obviously, had they thought to examine another line of thinking after Joshua was not found anywhere on campus property. They didn't seem to want to go there, though...
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