Sources close to the Mojo City News actually live in Wichita, so they’re pretty happy to have BTK off the streets – if in fact Dennis Rader is BTK. (latest CNN story)

Cody Barstow of MCN has been critical of the way in which the authorities have withheld information throughout this investigation, and has a new analysis in the wake of the arrest.

Silence does not work. In fact, if you get past the relief-frenzy of the capture … the citizens of Wichita have no real reason to believe they have the real killer until the cops and politicos tell the people why they think they have him.

Based on what we’re being told, they seem pretty certain they have their boy, but the fact that some locally remain suspicious tells you a lot about the failure of the investigators to build goodwill with their public…

Read the MCN commentary…