the_franklin_cover-up_-_john_decamp_-_ebook

COVER·UP PHASE I: THE POLICE•the Foster Care Review Board, the information that I handdelivered to him, he never went back to interview LorettaSmith. In one of my telephone conversations with InvestigatorCarmean, I remember telling him that this girl was nowreporting homicides, and he said, yes, I need to get out thereand re-interview this girl. ...[O]ne of my concerns Senator is the conduct of the OmahaPolice Department. I don't know what's going on up there,I'm not familiar with the players in the Omaha Police Department,but I know that I hand delivered material to an investigator.... Investigator Carmean and Investigator Hoch leftmy office and they seemed sincere, they seemed that theywere going to investigate these allegations and later it wasas if air had been let out of a balloon, that all of a suddenthey had no interest in even re-interviewing a girl who wassaying that she had witnessed homicides and I just don'tunderstand it. ...FCRB Executive Director Carol Stitt testified:I would like to add something that was highly unusual inthis case. Loretta's psychiatrist contacted the police inOmaha and asked them to come, Loretta's personal careworker, Ken Stoner, contacted the police, [Richard Youngemployee] Kirstin Hallberg contacted the police, as well asAdrienne Hart, who is Kirstin's supervisor. All those peoplehad made contact and nothing was being done....Not long after after his interview with Loretta, OfficerCarmean was transferred out of investigations altogether, intoa section called Research and Planning. At the same ExecutiveBoard meeting, Senator Ernie Chambers recounted a phoneconversation with Carmean:When I called [the sexual assault unit], they said he's nolonger here and that's when they told me that he was withResearch and Planning .... I finally ... got him and I mentionedhis enthusiasm at the outset, and that from what Ihad developed in terms of creditable information being givento me, I felt he'd been transferred because he was gettingtoo close to something and his superiors did not want himto continue. So there was a silence, then he kind of chuckled,27