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Originally Posted by Orior
I'm saying that there should be better rules for determining which cold cases should be revisited.
The hoaxer never hurt anyone, except the feelings of the police. He also exposed their ineptness, which in the long run was a good thing.
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There are many who will argue the hoaxer did not directly hurt anyone, but because of his actions, attention and resources were diverted onto a wrong line of enquiry. Those resources could have been used finding a proper line of enquiry, and in turn that might have prevented some of the later attacks.
Police may have learnt from the hoaxer, but it was serious enough to possibly have contibuted to fatalities. On that basis the hoaxer should not be ignored.