Never See Them Again by M. William Phelps

Author:M. William Phelps [Phelps, M. William]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Non-Fiction, Mystery, non fiction, True Crime
ISBN: 9780786030552
Google: TASzBP0l7OAC
Amazon: 0786024860
Goodreads: 13243683
Publisher: Pinnacle
Published: 2012-03-01T06:00:00+00:00

HOMICIDE HAD BEEN manning the phones ever since those billboards went up all over town. The Crime Stoppers tip line and George Koloroutis’s website had been running on full speed. Now it was just after the two-year anniversary of the murders and HPD and the families launched another public cry for information. The anniversary was as good a time as any to continue to push the case. The past year had developed some leads, but nothing had ever come of them. With the announcement once more, the publication and the airing of the sketches again, came another round of new calls and leads to follow up on. Detective Brian Harris, who had been promoted to sergeant, supervising those men he had worked with (to the chagrin and resentment of some in the department), was working the case by himself by now. There was no team of investigators spending days looking at evidence, following up on calls, interviewing witnesses. Some cases get to a point where the thing that ultimately solves it is that notorious break.

That one lead: someone who perhaps courageously steps forward and decides to open up despite the consequences.

The flip side to this, however, is that there must be a system in place to get this lead into the right hands. Moreover, the lead itself might possibly have to mean something to the investigation in order to be useful. And with an investigation that had produced as many red herrings as this one, not to mention hundreds of “tips” and so-called witnesses, only a magician would have been able to pick out the best tip that the Homicide Unit had gotten up to this point as it came across Brian Harris’s desk during the summer of 2005.

This crucial information—naming both killers—was called in on July 28 that year, exactly ten days and two years after the murders.

An anonymous caller phoned the department: “While Christopher Snider was drunk,” the female tipster told the tip line, “he told me that he and his girlfriend—her name is Christine, I do not know her last name—killed the four people in Clear Lake.”

And there it was: laid out on a silver platter, as if the keys to the case were plated in gold, and arrest warrants were there, filled out, signed by a judge, and ready to be served.

The tipster went on to say that Chris Snider, feeling a steady flow of booze wash over him on that day, wanting badly to get this demon monkey off his back, said, “Christine’s best friend was raped by the two males that we killed! So Christine and I went to the location and I killed the two males, while Christine killed the two females. We wore bandanas over our faces.”

The details of this call fit a later description of Christine given by Chris Snider’s sister, Brandee, to George Koloroutis, spelling out things clearly, and in doing so, seemed to make some sense out of the case and the motive behind such violent deaths. The female

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