DETROIT – Tamara Greene's son, Jonathan Bond, said he now knows what he has always believed to be true: The city of Detroit is hiding something in the murder investigation of his mother.
A judge ruled Wednesday that city of Detroit lawyers intentionally destroyed former mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's emails and other potential evidence after specifically being told to save it.
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Bond, 18, said he believes his mother's murder investigation was sabotaged to protect Kilpatrick's reputation. Now that the evidence was destroyed, Bond said he wonders if he will ever know who killed his mother and why.
"There is no way that a mistake was made," Bond said. "There is a reason why she died."
He said people do not ignore court orders and destroy evidence unless they have something to hide. He said he is confident the judge in charge of the case will see to it that those responsible for hiding evidence will answer for it.
"These people purposely did this. There is no way around it," Bond said.
Bond said it's not about winning a case, it's about finding out who killed his mother, and he knows what she would say about city officials pulling a fast one.
"She would say, 'Is this what my taxpaying money is really going to? Hiding evidence?'" Bond said.
Bond recently graduated high school and said he plans to attend college in Metro Detroit so he can keep an eye on the case.