Ricky Holland Vanished

Just last night I was blogging in the previous entry about no news being released about the investigation into the disappearance of Ricky Holland.
This morning I ran across this story from the Lansing State Journal. By the way, I want to mention that the Lansing State Journal has done wonderfully in covering both the story of Ricky’s disappearance as well as covering the investigation.

For the first time Friday, police described the parents of Ricky Holland as “persons of interest” after executing search warrants at their home for the fourth time in about two months.Ingham County sheriff’s officials took hair samples and fingerprints from Tim and Lisa Holland this time, said their attorney, Neil Rockind…

…”The Hollands are suffering too much, and I’m sickened by it,” Rockind said. “The Hollands’ civil rights are being violated.”

Rockind said the term “persons of interest” has no definition.

“They’re not suspects, so leave them the hell alone,” he said.

Detective Sgt. Roy Holliday said information from a previous search warrant required authorities to come back Friday.

“We’re not ignoring any leads,” he said. “They take us where they take us.”

Lisa Holland declined to comment when she answered the door Friday and referred all questions to Rockind…

In my opinion I don’t think that the investigators in this case are being careless by throwing around the term “persons of interest”. I believe they have been very careful in their investigation and have taken care to not accuse the Holland’s. At this point in time it appears that they are focusing on the Holland’s as suspects. The attorney is correct, however, in that the term “persons of interest” is not a legal or law enforcement term. It has been coined by the media to indicate a possible suspect or suspects during an investigation. It is interesting that the investigator did offer up the term relating it to the Holland’s.

Of course their attorney is going to claim that they are being harrassed and that they are innocent, that is his job. I wonder who is paying this attorney. It seems highly suspicious that they would require an attorney simply because their child went missing. I wonder why Tim and Lisa Holland has only granted one interview to the media and that was at the office of their attorney. According to another news article during that interview Lisa Holland did not respond to many questions, choosing to answer her cell phone when it rang and attending to her infant daughter instead. Tim Holland during that interview just gazed out the window.

There are many parents and loved one’s of other missing in this country who would have begged for the chance to receive even half of the media coverage that has been given to Tim and Lisa Holland’s missing child.

I wonder what detectives have found at this point that requires fingerprints and hair samples from Tim and Lisa Holland. They say in the article that information obtained in a previous search warrant required that they come back and obtain the fingerprints and hair samples. In the previous search warrants some of the items seized were the family vehicles, computers and lastly a bed comforter.

It does not look good for Tim and Lisa Holland at this point. It does not look good most importantly for Ricky.Only time will tell what happened to Ricky Holland.