Mirecki investigation closed
by KrauzeUnable to find the two men who reportedly beat up religious studies professor Paul Mirecki, the police has closed the investigation.
The trail has gone cold in the investigation of a roadside beating reported late last year by a Kansas University professor.
Douglas County Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Lt. Kari Wempe said Thursday that detectives had finished their paperwork related to religious studies professor Paul Mirecki's report that he was beaten by two unknown men on Dec. 5, 2005, on a roadside south of Lawrence.
The office has not identified any suspects and, unless any new leads come in, the investigation is finished.
At the time, Mirecki was under fire for comments he had posted online critical of organized religion.
April 26th, 2006 at 1:02 pm
Hmmm . . . the cold trail with no conclusion. I guess we'll never know.
Neither option was great: a beating is inexcusable and deserves our sympathies; a fabricated story is inexcusable and, in my view, even more desperate (and therefore more unlikely) than a beating.
Comment by Eric Anderson — April 26, 2006 @ 1:02 pm