{"id":5368,"date":"2019-01-29T14:08:13","date_gmt":"2019-01-29T14:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lelandhale.com\/wordpress\/?p=5368"},"modified":"2019-02-01T17:18:16","modified_gmt":"2019-02-01T17:18:16","slug":"first-week-missed-opportunities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lelandhale.com\/wordpress\/first-week-missed-opportunities\/","title":{"rendered":"Investor Murders: A Week of Missed Opportunities"},"content":{"rendered":"

Whoever murdered Mark Coulthurst<\/strong> — and his wife and<\/em> his crew — had time on his side. There were missed opportunities, sure, but the killer had taken one thing that the troopers could never get back. Clocking backwards, the troopers calculated that the murders occurred either late Sunday, September 5th, or early morning Monday, September 6th. The Investor<\/em> fire began\u00a0Tuesday afternoon, September 7th. Already, they were more than a few steps behind the killer.<\/p>\n

It got worse.<\/p>\n

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The investigation didn’t start\u00a0in earnest until Wednesday, September 8th, when Capt. Kolivosky arrived to take over the land-based investigation. The debrisment of the Investor<\/em> — where presumably valuable evidence lay waiting to be discovered — didn’t start until the next day. By then, four days had passed since the murders.<\/p>\n

While it borders on cliche to obsess about the gravity of the first 48 hours in an investigation, time was wasting with each tick of the clock.<\/p>\n

And then there were\u00a0the missed opportunities, the “unforced” errors, as it were. There were almost too many missed opportunities to count. Here are the top six.<\/p>\n

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