Stafford remains on the stand

On Jan. 8, 2006, Maj. Stafford got a call that a pair of eyeglasses was found in the hotel room where Emily Anderson's truck had been found. He testified this morning he did not follow up on that. He said it should have been done, but it was not. Stafford said the glasses could have been important to case. Emily Anderson was known to wear glasses. When her body was found, the glasses were not found. But the sheriff's office did not make any effort to retrieve the glasses. Unless the defense calls someone to testify about the glasses, it sounds like we will never know if those eyeglasses belonged to Emily Anderson. What if they did? Did that mean Emily was in a hotel room in Duncan, S.C.?
Apparently, there are several things Dubs questioned Stafford about that he did not do or did not do right away. On Jan. 7, 2006, he got a list of people who checked into the Quality Inn on Dec. 29, 2005. Emily Anderson's name was not on the list. In November 2006, Stafford called a few people that checked in that day. None remembered seeing Emily. Stafford wasn't able to get in touch with everyone. He testified he did not check any other dates of check ins at the Quality Inn. Dubs asked Stafford if he or any other investigator talked to a Steve Killian. Apparently, Mr. Killian thought he saw Emily Anderson after she was reported missing, but Stafford said no one talked to him. "It didn't get done. There's no reason for that."
The defense is definitely pulling out all the strings to make it look like sheriff's office did not fully investigate Emily's disappearance and then her death and did not investigate fully into Jerry Anderson. But Stafford is standing his ground. He admits when something should have been done. He's not making up excuses.
He's still on the stand. I don't know if he'll be there all day or not. C-ya around 3:30.