Mikal Wersland was a SSLPD officer who died under unknown circumstances.
His connection to the case, aside from the FBI's use of him in misleading the investigation, is not clear.
The Youtube channel which discusses this case averaged about 20 to 50 views a day until Mr Wersland was mentioned, after which it went to near zero.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isq6bSL7tws
https://www.youtube.com/user/AlaskanAltitude/videos
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmR07xhrZ72V6pT_mLFT9bOsVqg9rHzP6
Shortened version of "A Confession that Needs Suppression" https://youtu.be/6MWx3tNimpA Playlist with evidence in this case https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list... After a young Burmese girl disappeared in Salt Lake City, Utah, the FBI thought they knew where she was. They sent 50+ agents and other officers to saturate the neighborhood of Cottonwood Heights and prepare for a dramatic rescue. Many hours later they suddenly realized they were wrong and she had been at South Park Apartments the whole time. Worse, at the autopsy they realized that she had been alive while they were arranging a dramatic rescue several miles away. The FBI made some understandable mistakes. But then they carefully arranged to help prosecutors convict a person they knew was not guilty so their mistakes would not become public. Esar Met is still in prison. ~ Mikal Wersland was the SSLPD officer who served as liaison with the FBI in this case, as discussed and documented in other audio and videos. He is the only person who was fully aware of what the FBI did. Still there is enough evidence to piece together the details. ~ In 1936 the United States Supreme court decided that it would no longer be legal to torture prisoners to get confessions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_v... Since then various dubious groups and individuals have sprung up with different ways to get confessions, and most law enforcement agencies in the United States use one or more of these dubious techniques instead of simple honest interviews. The result is a lot of false confessions like the one in this video. And many near false confessions. https://www.yahoo.com/now/man-nearly-...
So if investigation of this case continues, it will go in that direction.
Youtube uses clever management of algorithms to control and influence public discussion, but it also clearly uses humans to monitor videos and change how visible any specific video is. Any person can test that by uploading videos and tweaking them slightly to determine whether they are being 'promoted' or 'discouraged' by a human interfering with the algorithm.