I know they’ve worked hard.
And I know they’re a team of some of the best investigators in our area.
But the Childs-Metzler task force disappointed me by declining to take questions from reporters at a news conference this morning.
NRV Bureau reporter Candice Nelson confirmed this for me.
It has to be an incredibly difficult job investigating these two horrible murders.
Several sources I’ve talked to described it as one of the worst crime scenes they’ve ever seen.
This is a group of officers that also had to deal with the Virginia Tech massacre.
But I think not answering any questions at a news conference called by the task force is a mistake.
It leaves people wondering why you wouldn’t take questions instead of wondering what they might’ve seen or missed, and if that might make for a lead good enough to call police.
And any thought that someone who lives in that area of the murders has is probably worth a call to the Montgomery County sheriff’s office.
I know our reputation as “the mass media.”
“Too sensational” some say.
Some tend to lump us all into one category.
But I’ve always felt like the media here in the Roanoke valley has been very respectful covering stories like this one.
We know which questions are appropriate and which ones are not.
If investigators don’t want to answer our questions for fear it could jeopardize the case, then just decline to comment on that particular question.
We certainly don’t want to harm an investigation of this importance.
Bottom line—- we work for the folks and the folks have questions.
It’s our job to ask and we should be given that opportunity.
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