In Portland, Oregon the Multnomah County commissioners learned that the FBI is sending up to six FBI profilers to the area to assist in completing tasks on the Kyron Horman case recommended by FBI BAU profilers earlier in the investigation. After nine months and a case cost tab of 1.42 million, one Multnomah County commissioner questioned the move, according to Oregon Online.
"As a mother, I can only imagine the horror that this family is feeling at this point. But as a commissioner -- and this is directed to the DA's office -- are we on the right track?" Commissioner Loretta Smith said.
Spending over a million dollars on a case that has yet to result in an arrest would cause any county commissioner to pause about spending more money to that end, but the Multnomah County Sheriff's Office isn't asking for any more funds to be approved--at least not before June.
And the FBI is willing to jump in and assist in the case more actively as well, willing to provide more personnel to the Multnomah SO to that end.
FBI assisting
Multnomah County Sheriff Dan Staton expressed his appreciation of the FBI to aid them in the case that has garnered national attention but no arrests, "I'm very grateful they have offered this up to us."
The FBI, to date, were on scene during the early part of the investigation to lend investigative direction and two FBI BAU agents were in Portland Oregon in January of this year to assist further. Now up to six more profilers plan to put their focus on the 66 binders of data gathered during the course of the investigation thus far.
With men and women who are trained in sifting through such materials for potential investigative direction leads, little Kyron Horman may see justice for his disappearance yet.
LE vs. county commissioners on financing investigations
In another case on the other side of the country, county commissioners of Wilmington Delaware questioned the continued involvement of law enforcement on the John P. Wheeler III case, too.
In that situation the case spans three geographical jurisdictions, with Newark DE being the lead investigators. The Wilmington commissioners felt Newark's lead in the case should curtail Wilmington's involvement as much.
The Wilmington DE Police Chief, like his Multnomah County counterpart, felt justice must be served and his subsequent actions on the case are in line with the investigative directions and ast known sightings and activities of Wheeler in Wilmington.
The FBI and other law enforcement entities are very familiar with the fine line that must be walked between law enforcement and county commissioners in homicide investigations involving costly and hard to solve cases. Kyron Horman's case has exceeded a million in cost, and the John P. Wheeler III's case pricetag now exceeds the $100K mark. The general question commissioners have is: How much more will it take?
Multnomah County Commissioner Deborah Kafoury vocalized that same thought in Multnomah, asking specifically what the FBI's involvement would bring to the case now. Sheriff Staton said the case would benefit from the FBI's "resources and expertise", according to Oregon Live. And he clarified that the FBI brings things to the table "that we don't have at the local level".
Reference: Oregon Live
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Comments
Wow! 66 binders. I don't feel so bad about my 30 pages of notes.
We're going to have to do something about your split personality, Puget. :-)
Thinking about those 66 binders again. Do the police have availabe to them an "executive summary"? They must, there's no way anyone would have time to read through all of that.
Seems like almost everything comes down to money.
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