Breaking news reveals that the eight-year-old suspect in the St. Johns murders might not be charged with the murder of his father. We’ll try to piece together what would prompt a decision like that. Is there a bombshell on the way for this case?
We’ll check in once again with Kevin Tripp, who’s still in the town of St. Johns. He has some observations about the mood there. I’ll also ask him if he sees evidence of the prevailing drug problem we’ve heard stories of in this little town.
Continuing to follow the bloody double murder, let’s also consider the conspicuous absence of the stepmom. Reports say that she and the dad were a couple for a long time—and that the young suspect called her “Mom.” Why, then, is she not in court? Why didn’t she ask for custody of this boy?
This whole case was botched from the start. The Apache County Sheriff was in no way capaple of investigating this case. They should have called for the State police to investigate. They screwed up the initial interview with the child and then released it to the media. The crime scene should still be just that, a crime scene with investigators crawling all over it to see if it was even possible for this child to commit the crime. If the child did not do it then the Sheriff is now so far behind the actual killer and the crime scene and evidence is so tainted it will take a great deal of work by investigators to bring the case to a successful close.