Sponseller case open and shut ...

[Shagman]

3. Too many questions

but the one I keep coming back to is the desk drawer. Suppose it was you in that office. The man has just gone missing. You don't need a warrant to search his desk. One of the drawers is locked. What possible reason could you have for ignoring that drawer, calling off the search, and saying, "It's Miller time"? It doesn't make sense.

Either the note and the box weren't there on Feb. 11, the day Sponseller was reported missing, or the police were told not to search his desk, or they found those items and were told to sit on them.

I will admit it's possible that someone higher up wanted to handle the case carefully, considering Sponseller's position. Maybe that someone just assumed that Sponseller had run off with Duncan and the money, so the desk was left untouched. Maybe that's why two senior police personnel were fired. If it were that simple, though, why did we get such a vague reason for those firings?

One question I haven't heard anyone ask is, how did Sponseller get the key(s) to that maintenance room?