Questions over how a 23 year old FSU graduate was led to her death as an under cover drug informant remain unanswered despite a mound of paper released by police in Tallahassee. The documents detail drug arrests and break ins but not how police lost control of their informant.

The Attorney General will now look at how Tallahassee police interact with their informants.

Documents released by Tallahassee police show their first contact with 23 year old Rachel Hoffman was when she was stopped speeding and she was smoking pot. A drug diversion program kept her out of jail but not from 2 break-ins, 2 home invasions, and a car jacking. All within months. An April complaint led to an arrest for dealing pot.

Rachel was killed last week, allegedly at the hands of two men she was trying to buy drugs and a gun from as an informant. Attorney for the young woman’s family say police are blaming the victim. They say no.

David McCranie of the Tallahassee Police Department defended what has happened since the murder.

“Rachel is our victim and we will seek justice for Rachel and her family.
We did not provide the information to try to defame her character
whatsoever. The facts are what the facts are. She was involved in drug activity and she was trying to do something right, she was trying to change things.”

The city first balked at an outside investigation of their procedures, then asked the Attorney General to investigate. A-G Bill McCollum says It is not a criminal investigation.

“We are doing this review, if there’s comfort in that, well, I hope there
is.”

McCranie says police say they welcome the outside investigation.

“If they find that we need to change or adjust our policies and
procedures, we’ll certainly do that.”

The two suspects are being help in the Leon County Jail, going nowhere on kidnapping charges while authorities build their murder case.