It seemed like the solution to Elaine Traverse’s financial problems, and a dog desperately needing a potty break led her to it.
Pass a lie detector ? Isn’t non illegible in court so it means nothing ?
Moral of the story : Cops lies. If they promise you a reward be prepared to swindle out of it.
In her defense most police officers are dumber than a bag of hammers.
Yeah, found that funny. Like did they hire a private firm to take a lie detector tests to create evidence or something?
I think that is used to prove the willingness of the interviewe. « If you want to take a lie detector you’re more prone to saying the truth to the investigators » but I’ve never heard of this done in Canada.
If this is true, I urge her to lawyer up
The fact her son was a convicted copper thief, and then happened to locate this is just too much coincidence to ignore.
They are thieves looking for free money.
read the article and stop being a judmental twat… the son was in jail when the statue was stolen, so unless he is Houdini, I doubt he did it
Simplest solution is often the most correct. However, according to the article, he was actually in jail at the time. So it’s possible they are the fence, but I suspect someone else actually stole it. Interesting nevertheless.
When I worked in the Arctic (mineral exploration), someone from the small community we were staging in broke into our helicopter and stole the emergency kit one night. Without it we were grounded. We put out a “reward for return, no questions asked” and got it back a few hours later by someone who “found it on the side of the road”. We didn’t pursue legal action, because doing so would mean the next time something like this happened in the community, we couldn’t offer a reward and expect it to work. Conversely, we probably encouraged them to do it again. Game theory is weird.
