Man gets reward $$ after calling cops 50 times to ID 4 yr old's killer

[proud2BlibKansan]

MUSKOGEE, Okla. (AP) -- Officials from Kansas City, Mo., commended his courage, offered their thanks and delivered a $14,000 reward Monday to Thurman McIntosh, the man who tipped off police to the identity of a child decapitated in Missouri four years ago.

Alvin Brooks, president of the Move Up community organization, and Maj. Anthony Ell, leader of the violent crimes division of the Kansas City, Mo., Police Department, praised the man who broke the "Precious Doe" case.

McIntosh, 81, spent a year telling Kansas City police he knew the identity of the girl known as Precious Doe and who killed her. Police finally followed up on one of his tips in late April and within days identified her as Erica Michelle Green, 3, and arrested the girl's mother and the mother's husband on charges of killing her.

It took McIntosh 50 phone calls to Kansas City police over a year to share his suspicions. After offering hair samples from Michelle Johnson, the case moved very rapidly, he said.

http://www.kctv5.com/Global/story.asp?s=3437608

[amazona]

1. classic age-ism

No one listened because he used a walker and slurred his words. Sheesh, he was an 80 year old dude, cut him a little slack. I'm glad he was vindicated and received his reward.

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[proud2BlibKansan]

2. 50 calls

He had to call 50 times!! That's a bit hard to swallow no matter how old or disabled this man is.

I also wonder if this little girl had been a white blonde girl missing in Aruba how many calls it would take to get the police's attention.

[Gold Metal Flake]

3. That he was so persistant may give testimony to his inner turmoil.

Imagine the emotional toll it would take on you to live with this every day, trying to get justice, being rebuffed, then trying again because your conscience would not let you not try. So you call and are ignored, ridiculed, put off or rebuffed. You get angry, you get discourage. But you sit a moment and it's eating at you again.

So you call again. And again.

Was that what it was like? At that age?

They say there were a lot of leads. Maybe it took that long, but man, what a hell that would be if it were me.

[proud2BlibKansan]

4. And he was rattin on his own grandson

The police are so lucky he didn't chicken out.