reason she walked in the house and shot herself and they can show that, we will accept it and support tom. we didn t feel like that was the case. they weren t alone. remember, on the night it happened former deputy brian spencer say tom roaming around freely with blood and other potential evidence all over him. it was a very basic thing. any scene that you respond to, you want it treated as the highest level of what it could possibly be. so he would be a suspect? he needed to be preserved. he needed to be controlled. none of that was done at the scene. pretty soon ashley s parents began to suspect it was a coverup to protect tom. perhaps the so-called blue wall of silence looking out for a fellow law enforcement officer. there s a hell of an accusation. it is. it is strong. that is how we feel. not you. the evans police department strongly disagreed. both the coroner and the crime
saying well, we ll get to the bottom of it. i think he believes these families deserved more, deserved a strong response saying whoever did this will be fired, they will be held accountable. i agree with him that that needs to happen. let s see what christopher wray does next. all right. i want to go to a former fbi joint task force member. steve rogers. very good to see you. there s a lot of anger at your old player and this feeling that they botched it. did that they botch it? they botched it terribly, neil. the fact of the matter is, the american people are losing confidence in this agency because this is not the first thing they botched. let me add this. the director of the fbi should not only resign but the entire leadership executive officers should resign. if they don t resign, they should be fired. what i m seeing happen here from the day they tried to explain their way out of this in law enforcement, there s something called the blue wall of silence. i m beginning to belie
into weeks and tom remained free, ashley s parents became convinced that something about the investigation was not right. joel and i sat down and said, look, if for some crazy reason she walked in the house and shot herself and they can show that, we will accept it and support tom. we didn t feel like that was, you know, the case. reporter: they weren t alone. remember, on the night it happened, former deputy brian spencer saw tom roaming around freely with blood and other potential evidence all over him. police 101, a very basic thing. any scene that you respond to, you wanna treat it as the highest level of what it could possibly be. sure, so he would be a suspect. he needed to be preserved. he needed to be controlled. reporter: but none of that was done at the scene. pretty soon, ashley s parents began to suspect there was a cover-up to protect tom, perhaps the so called blue wall of silence looking out for a fellow law-enforcement officer.
happened, former deputy brian spencer saw tom roaming around freely with blood and other potential evidence all over him. police 101, a very basic thing. any scene that you respond to, you wanna treat it as the highest level of what it could possibly be. sure, so he would be a suspect. he needed to be preserved. he needed to be controlled. reporter: but none of that was done at the scene. pretty soon, ashley s parents began to suspect there was a cover-up to protect tom, perhaps the so called blue wall of silence looking out for a fellow law-enforcement officer. it s a hell of an accusation to make though. it is. it is strong, but that is how we feel. reporter: mind you, the evans police department strongly disagreed. both the coroner and the crime
on-duty homicide, because as rough as baltimore is, the direct attack and shooting of officers on duty is rare, as i mentioned, once a decade. this would seem like a potential motive to at least investigate. and yet police are already ruling it out. it s almost the first thing that you would think about given that baltimore unfortunately has a long history of police corruption and a long history of blue wall of silence where police officers protect each other when they re implicated in crimes. and so that leads, again, to having to ask, you know, is this related to his pending testimony. and congresswoman edwards is totally right that given the distrust between citizens and the police in baltimore, when police use aggressive tactics like they put this neighborhood on lockdown for almost a week, you had to show idea to get into your own house, that actually makes it harder for the police to do their jobs because folks don t trust the police. baltimore is where the don t be