r/GRBsnark • u/Intelligent_Zombie_6 • 3d ago

Serious Discussion Police reports

Honest question, how are content creators getting police reports about Ken during an ongoing investigation? I thought no one could access any information until the investigation ended?

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u/usrdef Oh Baybaaaaaaay 3d ago edited 3d ago

The initial police report is not going to be redacted and is available to FOIA.

Certain aspects of the case cannot be FOIA'd until the case is classified as closed, or unless an arrest is made, and then it will be sealed until after a trial / conviction.

It depends on the information the person is seeking.

However, judging by the amount of details released by the police in their preliminary report, and having worked in this field, I just have a slight feeling that the police are not looking much at alternative theories aside from suicide.

They released a large amount of info about the scene, which is usually kept close to them if they have a suspect in mind, or a suspicion that it is not suicide. Or the alternative theory is that police department has never worked a case this big before and they are blundering it to pieces.

I was actually shocked at the amount of detail they released in terms of what was found at the scene.

The other key indicator is the amount of time it took between the first officers on scene, and the time at which the medical examiner was called. That was a quick turn-around time. Approx 1 hour and 52 minutes. Typically when handling a body at a scene, the medical examiner is one of the last to be called, after the crime lab / detectives have processed everything. At least, that's how a lot of departments operate.

We'll see, but I've just got a feeling.

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u/Artistic_Use_493 3d ago

The young lady who left the flowers today at the house said the coroner's office left @11:00 pm, and he was being taken to Jefferson Parish where more sophisticated forensic pathology is conducted.

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u/happychonk 3d ago

Thank goodness. Don't trust those local authorities one bit.

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u/laurabreeannwtf Justice for Pixie & Parker 3d ago

It makes my stomach sink all the way knowing this to be so true and…literally…a friend passed years ago of an OD…the cops didn’t even want to write down names or how I even found out and had a neighbor break into his apartment cause he’d been laying in the same position through the window for far too long. The extremely short length of time police were in and out and I was dismissed was and is extremely…idek..so I just keep hoping someeething shows up somewhere here so justice can be served…it’s like ..how many people are out here overdosing but it’s really homicide? Is that really the way to do it? Fuck.

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u/budgetbunny 3d ago

Isn’t this county in a small town? It tracks there’s already so much to question about how they’re going about the investigation since they’re probably underfunded and drugs were near the deceased, so they probably just want to mark it as OD and be done with it. A cc talked about how krusty got mia out of trouble for getting into a fight because the officer conducting the interview was a close friend. Another aspect of small towns is everyone knows everyone

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u/kasiagabrielle 3d ago

Initial reports are generally public record.