Rolling Stone on a gym owner that became an officer when he was close to 50, improperly accessed the internal case file, and leaked the name of the eyewitness to a podcaster:
But it was an appearance by Blue on an episode of Matt Couch’s podcast that offered the best clue as to his identity.
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Sines’ tipster had noticed something strange. More than an hour into the podcast, Couch’s co-host slipped up and used an actual name . . . . Later, Couch let slip another detail: Blue was once named officer of the year. It didn’t take the tipster long to piece together a convincing theory of who Blue really was.
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He had no role in the investigation into the shooting, which had taken place outside of his service area and in an entirely different police district at the time.
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As a cop, [he] had access to case data available only to MPD employees. One day, as he was sitting in a patrol car that belonged to a friend on the force, [he] pulled up the internal file for the Rich murder.