Can Valadez handle the truth?

When Roger Valadez wanted to know why he had been targeted by Wichita police during a BTK-related raid at his home last year, police told him that the search warrant affidavit couldn’t be released because it would compromise the ongoing BTK investigation.
Now, with Dennis Rader safely locked away, Valadez still wants to know why he was targeted, and Assistant District Attorney Kevin O’Connor last week told the court that the affidavit contains information “that, frankly, I don’t think Mr. Valadez wants to see.”
Maybe we should let Valadez be the judge of whether he can handle the truth. Sounds a lot like a CYA operation in progress. . .
Posted by Randy Scholfield

8 Comments

  1. JUSTA GUY
    Posted September 13, 2005 at 8:20 am | Permalink

    Concerned citizens want to know also.

  2. Joe Williams
    Posted September 13, 2005 at 8:39 am | Permalink

    Agreed!

  3. TRACY
    Posted September 13, 2005 at 10:50 am | Permalink

    Maybe the local vigilante hairdressers turned him in.

  4. Anon
    Posted September 13, 2005 at 11:19 am | Permalink

    Kevin O’Connor is a pompus ass!

  5. Joe
    Posted September 13, 2005 at 3:25 pm | Permalink

    I heard an ex wife recognized several similarities published in the Eagle and turned him in. Time to sue the Eagle?

  6. Jed
    Posted September 13, 2005 at 3:34 pm | Permalink

    Mr Valadez doesn’t want to see, or the DA’s office doesn’t want seen? O’Connor is being awfully charitable there, sparing Valadez the anguish of knowing why his door was busted down, his possessions taken and he was handcuffed and swabbed and interrogated! Me tinks me smells us a rat, and me dont tink it’s Valadez!

  7. J R
    Posted September 13, 2005 at 10:41 pm | Permalink

    Mr. Valadez has a right to see all the facts relevant to his unjust treatment and arrest. It is not just his right but that of all of Wichita.

    I routinely commute past the Valadez residence. Every time I do I remember what happened.

    I do not wish to burden the already over-burdened finances of the city, but my suggestion is that Mr.Valadez avail himself of a good attorney and sue the pants off the city.

  8. JUSTA GUY
    Posted September 14, 2005 at 8:35 am | Permalink

    Good idea, and do it in open court. As for similarities on the BTK profile, hell I met several of them except my penmanship is better.