Questions about police procedure

[Elfdart]

Last week, the well-to-do owner of a Dallas restaurant was kidnapped by men demanding ransom and is believed to have been killed. For the first several days, not only did the police not go public about the kidnapping, but they would NOT release his name. Why? When kids are abducted, they sound the Amber Alert immediately.

It took about half an hour for people on the radio to figure out who had been abducted. It was simple: They just cycled through the names of prominent restaurant owners in the area and through the process of elimination...

Larry Brown? No.

Stranos? No.

Campisi? FUCK NO! (His restaurant is where Jack Ruby used to eat and a favorite place for visiting mobsters to dine. Nobody fucks with Campisi!)

And so on until they narrowed it down to Oscar Sanchez.

Why did the police do this? They sure as hell weren't going to fool anyone for long. I'm not so much annoyed at the media, since everyone was talking about it, so it's not like they did anything my co-workers and I didn't do. What were they trying to accomplish?

[Kamakazie Sith]

Last week, the well-to-do owner of a Dallas restaurant was kidnapped by men demanding ransom and is believed to have been killed. For the first several days, not only did the police not go public about the kidnapping, but they would NOT release his name. Why? When kids are abducted, they sound the Amber Alert immediately.

It took about half an hour for people on the radio to figure out who had been abducted. It was simple: They just cycled through the names of prominent restaurant owners in the area and through the process of elimination...

Larry Brown? No.

Stranos? No.

Campisi? FUCK NO! (His restaurant is where Jack Ruby used to eat and a favorite place for visiting mobsters to dine. Nobody fucks with Campisi!)

And so on until they narrowed it down to Oscar Sanchez.

Why did the police do this? They sure as hell weren't going to fool anyone for long. I'm not so much annoyed at the media, since everyone was talking about it, so it's not like they did anything my co-workers and I didn't do. What were they trying to accomplish?

Could have something to do with family wishes. Could have something to do with the demands. Better to wait for the full story to come out.

[Elfdart]

But they went public with the fact that a restaurant owner had been kidnapped, the FBI was on the case and so on... By that point, people could figure out who was missing and the cat was out of the bag.

[Stormbringer]

But they went public with the fact that a restaurant owner had been kidnapped, the FBI was on the case and so on... By that point, people could figure out who was missing and the cat was out of the bag.

Again, it might have to do with family wishes or ransom demands.

As for Amber Alerts, that's because children kidnapped are statistically in far greater danger than adults and adolescents. Hence it's an enourmously greater priority to get them back swiftly. Adult kidnapping tend to be for reasons that don't result in death.