October 6, 2006- Today's latest shenanigans by the Marshall Police Department have trumped their numerous blunders and incompetent conduct over the last 30 months.
Mary Lands' vehicle has been unlocked in an open and unsecured yard of Bud's Towing in Marshall, Michigan. According to Chief Mike Olson the vehicle has been considered "evidence" since March 2004 and would not be released to the family. Mary's parents have been trying to document its status and work with the lien-holder in an attempt to keep Mary's vehicle within their family. Chase Bank has been kind enough to also examine the circumstances and provide assistance to the parent's. After the Marshall Police Department received yet another one of my inquiries on behalf of the family on the status of the vehicle this week it was immediately removed from the property of the tow company and is now in a secure location.
The Marshall Police Department claim today that the vehicle is being retained by their agency because it is evidence. Evidence and its documentation is a crucial responsibility of any law enforcement agency. Is the Marshall Police Department going to falsify some evidence tag to show that the chain of custody for this vehicle will verify that it is a piece of evidence?
There is no court in the United States of America or any prosecutor that would take this position especially after the way the vehicle has been improperly stored for over two years. It appears that the Marshall Police Department are doing even more to botch any successful future prosecution of the person/s responsible for the disappearance and murder of Mary Denise Lands.
In looking at this situation objectively it could be concluded that there was some type of scheme in place to defraud the lien-holder of the payments of this vehicle, and deprive Mary's family to ever come into possession of something that once belonged to their dear daughter.
I know that someone reading about the Mary Lands case might have doubts to our statements and theory. No law enforcement agency in 2006 would ever operate with such incompetence, and lie and deceive parents who have suffered so much. The one thing that the family and I have always done was to be honest with the public and all the media. You couldn't even begin to make up these type of ludicrous circumstances, but they are all sadly very true. People ask us all the time, why do you feel that the Marshall Police Department must turn over jurisdiction of this case to the Federal Bureau of Investigation? If you have followed the story for any amount of time you would see why? As I have said many times before, and it is once again verified today, Barney Fife of Mayberry would have done a better job than anyone in the Marshall Police Department.
Jim Carlin
Justinian Investigative Service
12 comments:
was any evidence found in the durango?
If there was it was destroyed. Everything that has ever been found has been destroyed. Chris, this isn't the perfect crime, you had help from law enforcement, if you had done this on your own, you would have been behind bars a long time ago..
Chris or whomever . . .
If you know where Mary is, tell someone; on this site yon can do it anonymously. Maybe we can have Mary home for the holidays.
Dust in the Wind....
its obvious now that we have some BAD marshall cops(bryant)?others?? the remark that its dust in the wind.that tells me that evidence was burned up.
Everything ive read here and what i hear in town`always ends up the same,marshall police and chris pratt.someone needs to connect the dots.there must be a link that someone can figure out.if the so called BAD GUYS wont tell on them ,then we must dig deeper.
re the wurds on October 11 "dust in the wind". Did yu burn up the evidence Chris? Is that whut yu mean?those wurds sound like wurds chris pratt wuld say. Someone will come forward, its just a matter of time.yur to dum to do this yurself.remember snakes eat rats.yur a liability
does anyone know where mr. pratt likes to dump his carcasses,i heard it was in a pond?also someone mentioned that there was evidence that was sumerged,is there a connection here?
"All we are is dust in the wind..."
Unless someone credible comes forward with direct knowledge and evidentiary support this will case will be forever unsolved...
Ever heard of circumstantial evidence? There seems to be enough here to make an arrest.
That is a great comment. We have said all along that there has to be some type of forensic evidence and with all the other additional circumstantial evidence I feel a jury could reach a decision.
John Hallacy, the Calhoun County Prosecutor has never prosecuted a case without a body and he should attempt to do it in this case.
He should step up to the plate and try to obtain a conviction. No one would fault him if he at least tried. What are they worried about? Do they think Mary Lands is going to show up in court? Numerous jurisdictions throughout the nation makes cases like this every day without a corpus. He can win a conviction in this case. His failure to act is going to create a consensus in Calhoun County that if you can get rid of a body you will never be charged with murder. That does not send a good message to the any community.
Lets bring Mary home for Mothers day, im a mom and she needs to be home, how can you live with your self to know that you took her from her family,
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