This is a seven part series on Rachel Hoffman. The series covers how she became a confidential informant and how she died.

These types of activities are happening in America and other democratic countries. Most times you never hear about this, even when things go wrong you usually don't hear about this, but in this case, Rachel's family and friends have done a good job of publicizing what happened to her, and bringing awareness to the plight of confidential informants, and the state of these deals.

I have to be honest some parts of this story are troubling to me. The informants that Rachel was to sell or buy drugs from, sound like they might have had prior convictions, which means they would have already been a part of the informant program in most likelihood. A quick check might have revealed this. Yet the cops choose these men to be the pigeons for the sting?

What I do know, from the stories that I have read, Rachel was very open unfortunately too open about her role as an informant. I have heard other stories of how informants who break the code of silence are dealt with. I just think that there are some parts of the stories that are odd, and because we were not there we might never know.

The men she bought the drugs from, had no drugs, and they shot her and killed her for the money? Yet why not just beat her up and disappear? She didn't really know them, they could have gotten away with it, so why was she really killed?

There are a lot of questions that I have, sometimes the store is just what it seems and sometimes there is more to the story. Anyways, here are the links to her 7 part series.


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp ... 5#28810295


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp ... 5#28810293

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp ... 5#28805031

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp ... 5#28805186

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp ... 5#28810292

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp ... 5#28810294

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp ... 5#28810296