Earlier this week, there was an arrest made in connection with the murder of Detroit Jewish community leader Samantha Woll.
The suspect has been identified as Michael Jackson-Bolanos, who according to police, stabbed Woll to death during an invasion of her East Detroit home. Evidently Woll's blood was found on Jackson-Bolanos' jacket.
I'm not sure how Jackson-Bolanos gets out from under that unless his defense attorney can establish the jacket belongs to someone else. In any case, the attorney is pointing out that Detroit Police arrested a different suspect last month - someone who was known to Woll and attended the Downtown Detroit Isaac Agree Synagogue.
When Woll was murdered in October shortly after Hamas attack against Israel, Detroit PD asserted anti-Semitism wasn't a motive. When I first commented on the case, I explored this possibility and came up with these possibilities:
But for the sake of argument, let us suppose anti-Semitism wasn't the motive. What are the other scenarios?
A) Woll was randomly stabbed to death by a complete stranger.
B) Woll was murdered in a robbery gone bad.
C) Woll was murdered by someone she knew who was angry with her for either personal or financial reasons.
D) Someone was hired to kill Woll for personal or financial reasons.
Well, last month Detroit Police picked C. Now they've shifted to B (with a little bit of A). So, how did the Detroit Police go from being convinced the suspect was someone who knew her well to a suspect she never knew?
The fact that this happened doesn't inspire confidence and raises the possibility of reasonable doubt. With all the twists which have taken place in less than two months, I would not be shocked if there was yet another twist.
I would not be surprised if Woll's murder becomes a future episode of Law & Order.
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