Miami-Dade police Det. Alan Foote:
“Where’s this guy coming out of left field, with this black male suspect?”
Increasingly, police would rather not solve brutal crimes, than chase after black felons.
By David in TN
Friday, April 5, 2019 at 7:09:00 P.M. EDT
Revised at 9:11 p.m., Friday, April 5, 2019
Sorry for the late heads-up. ABC 20/20 tonight (Friday) is re-running the “Lady in a Suitcase” episode from around eight years ago at 9 pm ET. A good, true procedural story.
“PC (White) Miami-Dade Copper Refused to Look at Black Man as Suspect in Rape-Kidnapping, but He Turned Out to be a Brutal, Racist, Cross-Country, Serial Rapist Who Targeted White Women.”
jerry pdx
ReplyDeleteGuarantee no black detective would ever have done what Ken Brennan did. Ken Brennan is a true hero.
This guy was some sort of tech rep traveling across the country to and fro and doing so for years. No telling the amount of damage he did. They can probably solve a lot of cold cases from this bad guy.
ReplyDeleteThis is the best crime story ABC 20/20 ever did. It never ceases to amaze the unwillingness of Detective Foote and others to note (1) The "big black guy" was the last person scene with the victim before she vanished from the hotel and was found barely alive in a cul de sac. (2) The big black guy was seen on surveillance camera toting a suitcase out to the parking lot in the small hours of the morning, and was not checking out.
ReplyDeleteKen Brennan quickly found such a suitcase could easily hold a small female inside. Foote and company didn't want to see the obvious.
The program alluded to Jones being convicted for a series of rapes in the New Orleans area when working there in the concession business.
In 2015 (https://www.theadvocate.om/new_orleans/news/article_067530cc-7263-5874-9279-1034a4a0c34f.html)Michael Lee Jones pleaded guilty to the New Orleans charges and "was sentenced tp 45 years in prison under the terms of a plea agreement."
Jones is incarcerated in Colorado on his "24 years to Life" sentence. I checked the Colorado prison website. Jones comes up for parole in 2029. How does his Louisiana plea bargain affect this? Very little, which is why he took it. The news stories don't say so directly, but the sentences are obviously concurrent, not consecutive. Jones now comes up for parole in 2032, when he will be around 59.