*** Please do not take this as having a dig or being a put-down....just a quick look at how the waters became murky. ***
gavinmac wrote:We were all hoodwinked by a fugitive pedophile for almost two days. It's quite embarrassing.
From my reading of this thread, things went off the scent when the age/identity interpretation went awry:
gavinmac wrote:Theres an Eric David Erdman born on 4/1/78 subject of Wisconsin court records. I think that's sniper_m4. He looks that age from his photos.
Another Eric David Erdman is from Portland Oregon born in June 1972.
I believe sniper_m4 is not the subject of the Oregon court records. He was probably followed and approached/detained due to suspicion he was the guy.
We have come to know GM's sleuthing to be relentless and pretty much unerring. Then within 5 mins we had the site owner (an even-handed fella) agreeing with the age/mistaken identity hypothesis:
scobienz wrote:This is my take too. I suspect the authorities and even the embassy thought he was the other Erdman and got it totally wrong.
15 mins after GM offered the Wisconsin identity as a possibility (due to the individual 'looking young for his age') was when sniper_m4 (= Eric Erdman/n) decided to take up the line of Wisconsin heritage, and the associated *age that is lower than the man being sought for Oregon noncing offences/absconding*.
sniper_m4 wrote:Yes I am from Wisconsin. Not Oregon. Perhaps the media got their information crossed.
- also feeding the idea of mistaken identity (this was - or so it seemed at that moment - a person wronged, struggling to grasp why on earth he had become embroiled in this lunacy). Then we seemed to have the scenario of wrong man, different DOB, different birthplace etc, innocent of pedo shit, who has now been released after a balls-up by various authorities.
Skip forward a day or so, much
consumption later, and we come full circle to having Mr. Erdman(n) outed and shamed as a nonce. Sure, the CD article wasn't tip-top in its clarity, but that was partly based on some fairly loose/unequivocal quotes attributed to the KH police/immigration chief. AND, of course, that the perp insisted he'd been released (having 'paid up his visa overstay'), plus *his word* that the embassy had apologized to him for the situation, and had never questioned him about the paedo stuff, and (barely believably) that this had *nothing* to do with his previous suspicions of being monitored by APLE.
I'm not surprised there are some blushes over this. And, as some other poster said (sorry, i forget who), perhaps many of us are easily prompted to put the boot it to The Daily/embassies/local police/immigration/courts etc - this blurred the vision too.
GM - don't let this taint your rep tho. Because of you history of unearthing scumbags and letting us see their past catch up with them, your voice and observations on these matters are followed closely. We live & learn. Put this one down to experience?