For years, I have been trying to motivate Massachusetts D.A. Steve Gagne to do something about Alden Olson, the man who continues to taunt the Murray family with YouTube videos suggesting that he killed her in 2004. Olson posted video of my son on YouTube and has threatened me directly. Gagne knew Olson had a history of threatening violence in Mass -- Olson threatened to murder members of his own family a few years ago in Chatham.
But Gagne would not press charges. Olson had deleted the YouTube video of my son (though Gagne could easily have retrieved it from the service). When I asked him what would happen if he did nothing, and Olson showed up on my doorstep with a gun, he sarcastically told me that then they would have a pretty good case. He suggested Olson was harmless. Now we know that isn't true.
Take a look at this screen shot from Olson's famous "Anniversary" video, the first video he used to taunt investigators and suggest he killed Maura Murray. One of the top comments is from Vester Lee Flanagan, the man who murdered news reporter Alison Parker and photojournalist Adam Ward on live TV last week.
Flanagan filmed the murders and uploaded it to the Internet to taunt the world before committing suicide.
I wonder where he got that idea?