Is the boy's mother in love with one of the prosecutors?
So, too, was one of the prosecutors who tried the case in 1964.
That is now in the hands of the special prosecutor.
There has never been a question about the performance of the private prosecutors.
And it may well have decided to fire most of the eight federal prosecutors because they would not play along.
"This is now in the hands of the federal prosecutor."
The order was made available today by the office of the independent prosecutor in the case.
In some states the majority of local prosecutors are part time.
"I have just created the position of special prosecutor in my own department to get these people off the job within 30 days," he said.
Married, the father of three children and a former prosecutor himself, he had turned to the law as a second career.