Before dying earlier this month, Larry Webb confessed to killing Susan Carter and her child and burying their bodies in his yard
A man confessed on his deathbed to killing a 10-year-old girl and her mother, closing a 24-year-old cold case in Beckley, West Virginia.
After the confession, officials found remains believed to be those of Susan and Natasha “Alex” Carter, her daughter, in Beckley on Monday.
The mother and daughter were last seen on 8 August 2000.
Larry Webb, who was indicted in October 2023, confessed to the crime after investigators visited him at the Hilltop nursing home center earlier in April.
Before he died in custody, he admitted to burying their bodies in his back yard, according to a West Virginia state police news conference on Tuesday.
Wdym? SVU copaganda has told me that cops solve all cases in a hard but fair manner, and they don’t stop until they found the perpetrator - and here it is, they got him! Yes he had to confess in his death bed but that’s a minor detail.
I know you’re joking but your average IRL United States police officer is painfully painfully stupid or narrow minded.
I mean, they had him in custody for the murder before he confessed. That last part seems unfair.
Never forget the LA police force had writers on a very popular show called Dragnet. Fuck the police in all their glory filled heads.
“As Alyssa Rosenberg documented in her exhaustive, seminal 2016 Washington Post series on law enforcement in film and television, one of the first popular police procedurals, Dragnet, which premiered in 1951, worked in full collaboration with the LAPD and its police chief, William Parker, on storylines and logistical help, in exchange for script approval by the police.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/apr/24/tv-police-cop-shows-hollywood-legacy
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/opinions/2016/10/24/how-police-censorship-shaped-hollywood/