Just wrapped up a three-minute phone interview for Fox News (!) on the Haines murder. National attention continues to focus on this - the CrimeBlog thread, if anything, has heated up since the arrest was announced; indeed, I’d link, but CrimeBlog seems to be down, “has exceeded its CPU quota” - which also happened Saturday night, […]

We’d heard that Alec Kreider was going to be arrested about 5 p.m. Saturday. But we were asked to hold off on interviewing neighbors until the actual arrest happened - some of them, we were told, were assisting with the case, providing the cops with information, and there was concern that if we swooped in […]

This isn’t exactly the kind of thing that fills you with confidence, is it?

Caption: State police Sgt. Greg Riek leads a team of state police cadets down Peach Lane this morning, before beginning a final search of the grounds around the Haines’ home and their neighbors’ yards in Manheim Township.
(Richard Hertzler, New Era)

Spoke with Steve Huff from CrimeBlog last weekend for the story on the continued spat between the DA and the coroner. Interesting guy; has been following these kind of crimes for quite a while, and when you do that you develop a certain perspective, perhaps a certain type of expertise.
I won’t reprint his hunches here, […]

As mentioned previously, CrimeBlog is all over this case, and some interesting if very, very speculative new stuff today. Take all of it with several shakers of salt:
Tips from readers and an online investigation have revealed that Kevin Haines had one male friend who had some troubling traits, and that friend may be among the […]