Prosecutor's Investigators

The search of the house was eventually completed and in addition to the ISP and other law enforcement personnel involved, so were Prosecutor Stanley Faith's politically appointed staff investigators. According to some of the police at the scene, Prosecutor Faith had taken over control of the crime scene and the ISP was being responsive to his directives, including giving the blood expert a free rein. Prosecutors often have their own investigators but none of the four investigators used by Faith had any law enforcement or evidence training.

Amazingly enough, the Prosecutor's investigators also collected evidence and apparently had their own evidence storage area in Georgetown. When it came to identifying the evidence they collected, however, there were no property receipts or evidence logs and there were no chain of custody logs. It was impossible to tell what they collected or when or where they collected it. Some of the evidence they allegedly collected was also lost.

The introduction of politically appointed investigators with no law enforcement or evidence training, the fact that the investigation was being run by the prosecutor, the elimination of any suspect other than the husband and father (after all, the "odds" are that the surviving husband/father is the one responsible) coupled with the arrival on September 30th of the blood spatter "expert" who was anything but an expert caused the investigation, in the minds of many, to become a runaway train which had a preconceived destination.