Yet they never recorded them saying that in their witness interviews (video or written) nor wrote that very important info on their notes in any way? How is it possible that very important info was never documented? And this was supposed to be an investigation into the possible murder of a fellow officer??? Make that make sense.
It's pretty common in my years of being around such reports and reading them, especially if anything involved a fellow officer or friend of the cops. One example was a car accident. Two cops, interestingly both also worked at the P.O., I think both were part time and trying to get into either job eventually full time, either into the sheriff's department or the post office for the FT benefits, etc. and pensions.
A woman and a man. They had been in another town helping patrol a festival, not unusual for the part timers to take such extra hours, etc. After the festival, late, they say and drank with others at a local bar and I am sure tossed down many. The bar was known as an "oasis" out of our own town for cops, kind of kept it on the down low. This would have also been I am sure after hours at a certain point. Not legal either but they are special just like Karen and her cop bf were here or thought they were anyhow...
Hey, I knew them both and liked them, knew most of our local cops somewhat anyhow.
Anyhow they crashed. I am certain probably a buddy was called, and that they preferred no one be called but for some reason it had to be reported to a point, I forget why, but we ended up seeing the police report so not sure if she was injured or what the deal was, I can't recall but there must have been going to be a necessary claim, probably for damages to the car too but we would not necessarily get such records on that.... Or because of that. I believe it was a one vehicle accident...
Anyhow we got the report and first let me tell you LE incident reports are never great. They never document what they should, witnesses, names, numbers, etc. Almost NEVER, at least not back then. But this report was a joke. I mean it had NOTHING on it. I alerted to it the minute we received it because I recognized them both as cops and it was in the wee hours near the other town. The woman he was with was NOT his wife, another thing... Minimal almost zero information, but the key thing? It had her down as the driver. I did not believe that for a split second, that she was driving... It was probably part of the reason for the report too. Something told me she was not driving, I don't recall what but it was a lie and I was certain of it. I imagine he was plastered and driving and she may be was not and would have passed a breathalyzer or perhaps he was not to be driving, I can't recall. This was a long, long time ago.
My point IS keeping all off a report keeps it open... You are not cemented in. She was a friend and in the early hours I'd say they were concerned for her and probably felt it might have been an accident... All or most of them were drinking that night, you know, they are special, they can do what the public cannot without arrest...
I don't find it odd at all. LE also knows such things are discoverable. And again at that point, she was likely still considered one of their own...
I can think of a very bad thing in my life once and I sat at the table with a female officer and gave her detail after detail of I'll just say a brutal long assault. Months later when I saw the report, none of that was in there...
It's the norm. I have long said LE needs to be trained to get details at accidents and you name it and get them into their reports. They aren't.
I have witnessed car accidents and stopped and waited. When I finally could I would approach and tell an officer I saw what happened and did they want my name and number and 9 times out of 10 it was a "no". I have seen police reports where no witnesses are listed, following that very same behavior and when interviewing a person involved, they share that this woman in such and such a car talked to them and saw the accident but guess what, cops never took down the details...
Anyhow, I'm going on 2.5 hours sleep. AT least I got a couple. I know I am wandering a bit but my point is such not being in there does not mean it was not said or it is lies. Imo Karen showed a ton of consciousness of guilt as they call it. That her statements are not in reports surprises me not one bit and does not lead me to such being false either. Such very reasonably fit in with her suicidal behavior and more. Her niece had some things to say too...
She did leave the scene that night and go home and left him to die.
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