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Please do not suffer in silence. Over the past three decades, many questions have been asked about the case typically

referred to as the Springfield 3.

Many of these questions are asked by those who want to know what went so wrong.

Why has this case seemed almost insurmountable to investigators from the very beginning?

Some of those that have worked the case, investigators and other police officials,

believed that the investigation was botched from the very beginning,

with police at the time not really knowing the proper procedures for how to carry out an investigation of this scope.

Police Chief Terry Knowles in particular has received a lot of

flack from these critics, who believed that he gave away too much information in the earliest

days of the case, to the point that it made prosecution of potential suspects almost impossible.

Since so many details of the crime scene had been disclosed to the public, it was hard to verify

what someone may have gathered from simple news coverage. Knowles was also described by many as a micromanager,

who made it hard for his investigators to follow through on certain leads as they normally would

have. He was also criticized for turning down assistance at times from other agencies and

organizations, choosing to handle everything

internally. These decisions in the earliest days of the case may have ultimately stymied it,

per experts and other officials that have since reviewed the case. Whether or not this is

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