Dave Bristow
Dave Bristow
against
We are going to look at any allegations made against this teacher.
fire start tried
He tried to start a fire in the bathroom. We think he killed her and then tried to start the place on fire.
audacity last marked shows sure victim
You would think the last victim of a burglary would be a marked unit. It shows audacity to do something like this. Audacity or stupidity, I'm not sure which.
anonymous believe came certainly deputies forward hard helps prove received three truthful type
Obviously, we don't condone this type of behavior. We will say that all three deputies came forward when we approached them with this information, which we received in an anonymous letter. From the get-go, we believe that they were truthful with us, and certainly that helps their cases, because it's hard to prove these things.
fairly telling
He's been fairly cooperative in telling us things.
county
If you take into consideration that our county is approaching 300,000 in population, we're doing well.
relatives
She's by herself, she has no relatives in Manatee.
random
I don't think it's a random thing and they got lucky. I think they knew.
bottom employees problem
We have 1,100 employees here so you're going to have some problems. We've always said that if we have a problem we'll investigate it and get to the bottom of it, and that's what we did here.
bunch
We have a bunch of leads, but we could use more.
additional chance situation
When you get a situation like that, there's a chance you'll have additional crashes.
confident leads percent strong
We have some strong leads that make us confident that this is the same person. We're not 100 percent positive, but they have strong similarities and the same motives.
looking
We're looking into one incident, but they have not been charged.
definitely hoping knows public somebody
We're hoping that somebody out there knows something and will give it up. This is definitely something where the public could be of help.