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Welcome to Case Closed. My name is Charlie Spicer and I'm your true crime guide through this case.

We'll be starting with the Police Press Conference and then shift into a search for one key piece

of evidence that up until this point has been missing. Keep listening to find out what that

piece of evidence is. For now, we begin with the Calb County District Attorney, Robert James,

and the press conference. James took office three days before Rusty was murdered. One of James's

first orders of business is what the Dunwoody Cryer, a local newspaper, calls an information blackout.

No one outside of the inner circle in the police department has any information. In James's words,

this controls the integrity of the investigation. The public, however, has a different take. Any

public event with upper police staff becomes an opportunity for reporters and spectators.

Emails flood the inboxes of police and politicians. Danny Shorthall, Councilman for Dunwoody,

got so many emails he had to release a statement reminding the public that a murder investigation

was not a public affair event. That makes it that much more significant when, on February 8,

James calls a press conference. James was front and center before the TV cameras with the first

official statement in weeks. Since Mr. Snyderman's death in November of last year,

the Dunwoody police and my investigators have worked tirelessly to bring justice to the loved

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