Just My Opinion

I second that. We know all about Iran Contra & the Maricopa County sheriff's department, but what does that have to do with Keddie? What's more likely, they were involved in such activities & every member of every department of law enforcement was corrupt? Or they were a small town police department in over their heads dealing with a bunch of contradictory statements from family & friends and fingers pointing to suspects in every direction? If PSCO of the 80's were corrupt then what's the excuse for every PCSO department afterwards?

I’d like to know how Forcino seems to have escaped the “corruption” label that has been given to almost anyone in law enforcement who touched this case. 

It’s been said that the murders really bothered him (as I’m sure it did many others who worked the case) and I can certainly understand that but from reading archived FRB articles Forcino was dealing with his own personal problems during the 1981 investigation (and possibly before and after).

If he was pulled off the case and assigned to other cases/work then its probable that he was put where he was needed since common sense says everyone couldn’t work the Keddie case as there was obviously other work to be done.

In March 1983 (almost 2 years after the murders) the Plumas County Board of Supervisors adopted a resolution for disability retirement for Forcino (he was around 29 years old). A little over a year later he was arrested for spousal battery.

I’m curious to what his disability claim was? Was it related to mental stress from the case? When did he apply for disability and was he allowed to work while waiting (kinda doubtful)? If not then how long did he actually work with PCSO after the murders? 

That is a good question, Forcino one of the only good cops in 1981 PCSO, huh. Wonder why. Is it based on the rumor that he quit LE over Keddie?

That line from Doug Thomas's list of idiosyncrasies always stood out to me. You make a great point Karis, seems like DT had some questions there.

Just my opinion, as the name of the thread states, but here are a couple possibilities I can think of in regards to DT's list. Let's start with some of the things we have heard over the years:

1. The story we've all heard. The Keddie case affected Forcino to the point he had to leave LE & never spoke of the case again. 

2. Forcino was "forced off the force" because of #1

3. He was forced to retire because he was aware of the corruption going on within PCSO. 


My questions regarding the above:

#1. ?? Could be but impossible to say without being there or knowing more info. How was his behavior before the murders vs. after, etc.

#2. If he really was forced to retire is there more to the story? Did PCSO feel he was a liability or unstable? 

#3. If Forcino retiring made it to DT's list for this reason, couldn't that mean he might have been wondering about corruption himself and, therefore, not involved in the corruption?



But, what if DT was wondering about the retirement for a completely different reason?

Perhaps wondering if it had something to do with a certain family member of Forcino's . One who hung around with other local unsavory characters.  Or his family's connection to the group home. Perhaps he was wondering if Forcino had heard or found something out?

Read a post last night on 28 from some of Bo’s kin who seemed so sure he committed these murders.

Maybe it’s just me but doesn’t it appear these long lost relatives just want to be attached to this now well known case??

Wonder why dlac doesn’t throw them into the same category with Donna, Craig, Phillip, Chuck, etc...... No instead they suck him in just like the Meeks and Marilyn

So true and they probably didn’t even really know Uncle Brudzie past old folk lore passed down after Josh’s videos! Especially if he was drifting from place to place - most all of us have one of those uncles in our family - the kind that get larger than life after death -

This is all very interesting to me. I wasn't around Keddie during the time of the murders, but I recognize some of the names being mentioned in different posts. My mother was the Bankruptcy trustee for the eastern district in the late 1960's. The owner of Keddie Resort, Mollath, filed for BK in the late 60's and my mom went up and adjudicated various actions related to the BK. She took up residence there for a bit, and I came up there as a teenager. Unfortunately my mom also became enamored with Sal Forcino, and they had an affair which split apart our family. I did spend a lot of time around Sal, and his two boys, Scott and Bobbie Forcino. Sal, having grown up on the east coast seemed to have Italian gangster attitude in his blood. The two boy were rough and tumble as well. Don't remember the cousin who became the cop, but it is likely he was around at the time. I remember meeting a lot of people around Sal, some of whom he directed me to steer clear of when he wasn't around.