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The ongoing saga of 4-year-old Cesar Ivan Aguilar-Cano, who has been missing since June 29th, is coming to an end -- a tragic, but predictable end. I don't claim to be an investigator, but being in the news business a while, I have my hunches in cases like this. My prediction more than a week ago was the boy was dead, and the murderer was a member of the family, or at the least, an acquaintance. That's not just my observation, it's the plain, unvarnished truth. Statements from the family have provided hints to prompt my conclusion. For starters, the boy had only been missing a day or so when his mother proclaimed that she knew he had been abducted. Throw in a bogus psychic (are there any other kinds?), conflicting statements to the media, Christopher 2X, the unemployed minister/deadbeat dad/ex-con/ex-drug dealer who (along with the Rev. Louis Coleman) places himself in front of the Louisville media at the hint of a tragedy or controversy, and you have a first-rate "whodunit." For starters, Cesar's mother has provided conflicting statements regarding his disappearance. In one statement, she said she was in the shower and he was gone from the house when she got out. In another, she said the boy was "just playing in the neighborhood." Excuse me? You let a four-year-old run the neighborhood? Hmmm. The family also offered a $5,000 reward privately -- specifically aimed at keeping police out of the loop. A tipster could avoid dealing with police, which was the famiy's concern. This "avoid-the-cops" plan raised more than a few concerns with Louisville Metro police, who later reportedly talked privately with the family of their concerns of this plan. While it seems the Louisville media don't want to play this up, according to 2X, police told the family Sunday that the body they found was their son. The final determination is to come tomorrow. And then throw in Joe Arnold, Louisville's worst newsreader, who said not once, but at least twice during tonight's newscast -- with characteristic over-the-top emphasis -- the family is not being investigated in the death. For my money, I'm betting that's the message the police want on the street; I'm betting the message means the opposite -- they are focusing their investigation on the family. That's how it all looks this eveing from my hill overlooking Cox's Creek. G'night. -30- Post a comment in response: |
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