PHOENIX (AZFamily) — Arizona’s Family is still digging for answers into the death of a 10-year-old girl in northern Arizona, where police say her own father and his girlfriend murdered her.

A former Valley detective said he thinks the Arizona Department of Child Safety and the Phoenix Police Department dropped the ball.

Bill Richardson, who spent decades investigating child crimes, says it boils down to examining the circumstances, the number of incidents, and the credibility of those making the reports.

“I think DCS failed because they didn’t put two in two together. I think the police department failed,” Richardson said.

Richardson said DCS and Phoenix Police need to disclose more information about the reports leading up to the murder of 10-year-old Rebekah Baptiste.

“In this case,

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