About once a week, I revisit what I call my “murder book” on the Stacey Burns murder. It is a very thick , three ring binder, filled with all sorts of notes, emails, newspaper clippings, interview transcriptions, etc. The murder book term is a common one in stories about homicide detectives and I always run across items in mine that had slipped my mind over time.. Even though some of the quotations below have been used in this blog previously, I thought some of the newer readers might be interested in them.
“Our primary responsibility is certainly our current cases. We are pretty much straight out 24/7 keeping up with current stuff.” Sgt Steve Rowland, N.H. Business Review, March 3, 2009. (Two months before Stacey Burns was murdered-Sgt. Rowland was the original lead detective on the case)
“We have evidence, but not enough to make an arrest and that is what the state police are continuing to build on.” Jeff Strelzin, N.H. Senior Assistant Attorney General, February 10, 2011, Wolfeboro Police Commission meeting as reported in the Granite State News of February 17, 2011. (Less than two years after Stacey Burns was murdered)
“Our job is to get it right. We obviously want to solve cases as quickly as we can. However, we only get one chance. . . . . . If the defendant is found not guilty, he or she walks out the door and we are done forever, which is why we have to have proof beyond a reasonable doubt. Until we have that much quality evidence, we don’t make an arrest.” Jeff Strelzin ( same source as previous)
Is all this still relevant? Have the state police been “continuing to build on” the evidence since February, 2011? In the same meeting, Mr. Strelzin admits that “cases generally get harder to solve as times goes on” but says that sometimes “new opportunities to solve a case might evolve.”
Well, I’ll put away m murder book for another week or so. Maybe that illusive evidence will magically surface somewhere.
Duke
The bottom line remains the same: someone knows but not telling.
Mr. Southard, somewhere in your “murder book” is the interview with Mr. Shearer of the Green Valley rumor rag,(small town big story) in that interview Sgt. Gilbert (the third lead detective on Stacey’s case) clearly names his suspect. Between Michael Keane (Stacey’s brother) naming me and the state police openly calling me a killer one would wonder why am I still free? Let me enlighten you and your followers, Ed killed Stac, he out smarted all of us. Strelzin has made puppets out of the crime unit guys who are nothing but liars for him. Ya see, they, (the pigs) gave up caring long ago.
In a nutshell, only TWO people knew who killed Stacey. ONE of them is dead. For Jimmy to always be the first to accuse and know ABSOLUTELY is, PRIMA FACIE, suspicious. Ed has given up on accusing anybody, but Jimmy keeps on it, watching the story like a hawk, reading every blog. So, when Jimmy shuts up, I’ll quit posting to watch the ABC News Story. Part III, time 4:48. “I was disappointed AT Stacey and I had to k…PIN her down, RIGHT NOW!” (ACTIONABLE words. He couldn’t call her on the phone? Watch the interview! It was over between them.) Furthermore, his explanation of his BLOOD under Stacey’s fingernails gives everyone the creeps! Would a NURSE go to bed and fail to wash her hands first? It’s never come out specifically which fingernails Jimmy’s blood was found under! Maybe Jimmy knows. Was it under her fingernails on BOTH hands, from removing a “SPLINTER???”
Something else is VERY mysterious. Eddie has the video of him dancing at a party in Boston on the night of the murder. If Eddie devised a plan to rush back and kill Stacey, HOW COULD EDDIE HAVE KNOWN BEFOREHAND THAT ANOTHER MAN WASN’T IN STACEY’S BED THAT NIGHT? After all, Stacey had a date and Jimmy was over there until late in the evening.
And the final mystery: WHY WOULD THE POLICE TELL EDDIE THE EXTENT OF STACEY’S INJURIES, SOMETHING ONLY THE KILLER WOULD KNOW? Keeping that information SECRET would be critical for the prosecution, particularly if a suspect disclosed it during questioning.
It’s possible that the “war” between Ed and Jim has distracted the police from looking at other suspects. The nature of Stacey’s wounds points to a WOMAN!