Forum: Trials and Errors
14th March 2024, 08:55 AM
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Replies: 28
Views: 569
stay tuned
From what I can gather, this is an ongoing investigation; therefore, details are not being released to the general public.
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Forum: Trials and Errors
14th March 2024, 04:16 AM
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Replies: 87
Views: 4,523
flawed identification procedures
Brett Wilson LLP wrote (https://www.brettwilson.co.uk/blog/the-tragic-case-of-andrew-malkinson/), "On 3 August 2003, Beverley Craig also attended an identification parade. Whilst she initially picked...
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Forum: Trials and Errors
11th March 2024, 08:23 PM
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Replies: 28
Views: 569
Negative controls in DNA profiling
NBC News reported that "she interfered with controls". There is an article in The Champion by William Thompson about DNA called "Tarnish on the Gold Standard." IIRC he said that the negative...
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
5th March 2024, 05:24 PM
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Replies: 292
Views: 6,843
Elise Stefanik
The Economist's columnist Lexington quoted Elise Stefanik on the allegations against President Biden and his son Hunter Biden as being "the biggest political corruption scandal" of "the past 100...
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Forum: Trials and Errors
4th March 2024, 06:45 AM
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Replies: 479
Views: 29,595
Annie Le and secondary transfer of DNA
Richard Clark murdered Yale graduate student Annie Le over ten years ago, and there is no doubt about his guilt. My understanding is that her body was placed in an alcove behind a partition or wall...
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Forum: Trials and Errors
24th February 2024, 08:37 AM
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Replies: 1,115
Views: 311,361
The vagaries of memory
I remember hearing that claim from her. I also remember that John responded to it by saying that she had treated him well on the day that JonBenet's body was discovered (I don't have a citation...
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Forum: Trials and Errors
23rd February 2024, 11:26 AM
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Replies: 1,115
Views: 311,361
confirmation bias
Mr. Ramsey was quoted (https://okmagazine.com/p/jonbenet-ramseys-killer-may-be-revealed-27-years-murder/): "There's nothing more dangerous than a police department that's made up its mind, because...
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Forum: USA Politics
16th February 2024, 05:03 AM
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Replies: 81
Views: 1,422
two drawbacks
“The numbers show that the death penalty has dangerous effects on the criminal justice system that go far beyond the already significant risk of executing innocent people,” said DPIC Executive...
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Forum: Trials and Errors
15th February 2024, 08:02 AM
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Replies: 596
Views: 64,789
the press on the finding of Jodi's body
"He has never publicly shed a tear and did not wince when pictures of her mutilated body were shown on wall-mounted screens in the High Court in Edinburgh...In his closing speech, Alan Turnbull QC...
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
8th February 2024, 03:49 PM
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Replies: 53
Views: 1,884
from documentaries about Elan
Brittany Rose wrote (https://wjbq.com/elan/?utm_source=tsmclip&utm_medium=referral) about Elan, "The school had a $50k admission fee and unless the students flew in willingly, many were picked up by...
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Forum: Trials and Errors
1st February 2024, 06:16 PM
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Replies: 40
Views: 1,483
Representatives and wrongful convictions
Going on memory here, but one of the Birmingham Six, Patrick Joseph (Paddy Joe) Hill, asked the MP where his prison was to get involved. The MP was, in Hill's telling, of a different social station...
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Forum: Trials and Errors
30th January 2024, 12:54 PM
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Replies: 1,494
Views: 77,444
changing one's mind
Funk de fino wrote (https://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?postid=5389117#post5389117) on 8 December 2009, "I find this rather strange. A Libyan is apparently stitched up on...
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Forum: Trials and Errors
28th January 2024, 04:47 PM
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Replies: 102
Views: 18,945
no witness
It is a little odd that no one saw Scott with Lacie's body as he was going to the boat, but perhaps the launch area was unpopulated.
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Forum: Trials and Errors
25th January 2024, 08:46 PM
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Replies: 40
Views: 1,483
CCTV and other evidence
Barry Conache, a friend of the Garbutt couple listed (https://empowerinnocent.wixsite.com/ccrcwatch/post/why-i-do-not-think-robin-garbutt-murdered-his-wife-and-my-friend-diana-garbutt) some of the...
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Forum: Trials and Errors
24th January 2024, 09:57 PM
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Replies: 40
Views: 1,483
witness statement
Vanessa Golding wrote (https://empowerinnocent.wixsite.com/ccrcwatch/post/i-believe-there-to-be-a-great-miscarriage-of-justice-in-the-case-of-robin-garbutt), "I would also like to highlight that I...
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Forum: Trials and Errors
23rd January 2024, 10:37 AM
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Replies: 40
Views: 1,483
temperature and TOD
Burkhard Madea wrote, "The current gold standard for death time estimation is a previously established nomogram method based on the two-exponential model of body cooling." link...
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Forum: Trials and Errors
22nd January 2024, 08:18 PM
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Replies: 40
Views: 1,483
potential pieces of evidence
Was there a CCTV camera nearby, and was it checked? Did someone take the temperature of Diana Garbutt's body, in order to determine TOD? Were Ms Garbutt's fingernails checked for DNA? These...
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Forum: Trials and Errors
21st January 2024, 01:55 PM
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Replies: 40
Views: 1,483
indicators of the time of death
More on the stomach contents and related matters here (https://www.richmondshiretoday.co.uk/law-students-call-for-robin-garbutt-case-to-be-referred-back-to-court-of-appeal/). "At the trial, the jury...
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Forum: Trials and Errors
20th January 2024, 09:15 AM
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Replies: 40
Views: 1,483
gun and balaclava found elsewhere; lamps
To the murder. They were found at a distant location, but I was wondering if they were not considered relevant for any other reason. There was other potential evidence...
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Forum: Trials and Errors
20th January 2024, 07:58 AM
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Replies: 40
Views: 1,483
the alleged murder weapon and the time of death
The Justice Gap reported (https://www.thejusticegap.com/robin-garbutt-man-given-life-sentence-for-murdering-his-wife-challenges-conviction-for-a-third-time-2/), "Now, newly discovered unaired footage...
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Forum: Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories
18th January 2024, 02:59 PM
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Replies: 1,375
Views: 109,380
suicide, not Covid-19
There are reports in major news outlets that Mr. Musser died by suicide. It is possible that Covid-19 caused a physical or mental decline.
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Forum: Trials and Errors
18th January 2024, 10:47 AM
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Replies: 40
Views: 1,483
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Forum: Trials and Errors
18th January 2024, 07:00 AM
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Replies: 40
Views: 1,483
how not to collect evidence
The Guardian reported, "North Yorkshire police officers lost key evidence, including a clump of hair found on the pillow in the couple’s bedroom. The hair, which was a different colour to both...
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Forum: Trials and Errors
16th January 2024, 08:15 AM
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Replies: 18
Views: 1,298
Conflict of interest?
Jake Malooley reported (https://www.chicagomag.com/chicago-magazine/march-2022/unmaking-a-murderer/), "A couple years into Weger’s sentence, when the reward money in the case was distributed, State’s...
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Forum: Trials and Errors
15th January 2024, 08:53 PM
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Replies: 623
Views: 40,155
a judge summed up one of the cases
From the Private Eye article (linked (https://www.private-eye.co.uk/pictures/special_reports/justice-lost-in-the-post.pdf) in the early pages of this thread):
“There is no direct evidence of her...
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Forum: USA Politics
15th January 2024, 11:49 AM
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Replies: 52
Views: 2,000
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Forum: Trials and Errors
15th January 2024, 06:08 AM
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Replies: 18
Views: 1,298
no 12-strand twine
In a 1991 story called "Murder, they wrought," The Chicago Tribune wrote, "After examining the twine that bound the wrists of two of the victims, John F. Schaich, supervisor of the Illinois State...
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Forum: Trials and Errors
15th January 2024, 05:26 AM
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Replies: 18
Views: 1,298
Morris on the fingermarks
On 21 April 1960 the Bloomington Pantograph reported that "A mass fingerprinting operation is in progress at Starved Rock but officials have said fingerprints found on undergarments of the victims...
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Forum: USA Politics
13th January 2024, 12:15 PM
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Replies: 52
Views: 2,000
a pseudo-hypothesis
Scientific American reported, "In order to enter human cell nuclei, any such residual viral DNA would first have to enter the cell’s main compartment, or cytoplasm, which normally keeps foreign DNA...
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
13th January 2024, 11:32 AM
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Replies: 292
Views: 6,843
spectrum of offenses
The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/education/2024/jan/06/harvard-claudine-gay-plagiarism) reported, "It was through AI that the inconsistencies in Gay’s scholarship were found. In some works,...
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Forum: Trials and Errors
11th January 2024, 09:56 AM
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Replies: 623
Views: 40,155
a story within the story
Paul Sawers wrote (https://techcrunch.com/2024/01/10/fujitsu-post-office-scandal-government/), "Since the start of this year, the British Post Office Scandal has dominated headlines and public...
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Forum: Trials and Errors
9th January 2024, 05:37 PM
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Replies: 18
Views: 1,298
strands of evidence
"Another one is the stupid twine. Even in the doc as Warren explains it it makes no sense. Nevermind that, again, it's months later. It begs the question was that spool even there during the time of...
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Forum: Trials and Errors
8th January 2024, 08:27 PM
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Replies: 18
Views: 1,298
Newspaper articles covering the bloody fingermarks
I looked at three articles archived by the Friends of Chester Weger on Facebook. Below are some direct quotes from three newspaper articles. I removed some paragraph breaks to shorten this comment....
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Forum: Trials and Errors
8th January 2024, 10:21 AM
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Replies: 66
Views: 5,322
Littleton's 2002 testimony; Ofshe's 2013 testimony
The NYT reported (https://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/14/nyregion/skakel-tutor-once-a-suspect-says-his-admission-in-the-moxley-killing-was-wrong.html) in 2002, "The judge in the murder trial of Michael...
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Forum: Trials and Errors
6th January 2024, 01:59 PM
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Replies: 66
Views: 5,322
fellow Elan clients
In 2019 Oxygen reported, "Now, [Chuck] Seigan believes that no credible confession could have come from Skakel during his time at the Elan School. As time went on, Seigan also began questioning...
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Forum: USA Politics
5th January 2024, 05:41 AM
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Replies: 52
Views: 2,000
DNAse
A portion of the letter from the FDA reads, "As part of the purification
process during production, the mRNA is treated with DNAse to digest residual DNA." DNAse hydrolyzes phosphodiester bonds in...
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Forum: USA Politics
4th January 2024, 08:23 PM
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Replies: 52
Views: 2,000
contaminants are ubiquitous
The New York Times reported, "Florida’s surgeon general on Wednesday called for a halt to the use of Covid vaccines, citing widely debunked concerns that contaminants in the vaccine can permanently...
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Forum: Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories
4th January 2024, 07:34 PM
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Replies: 1,375
Views: 109,380
Ladapo's second verse the same as his first
The New York Times reported (https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/03/health/covid-vaccines-florida.html), "Florida’s surgeon general on Wednesday called for a halt to the use of Covid vaccines, citing...
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Forum: Trials and Errors
4th January 2024, 07:00 PM
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Replies: 66
Views: 5,322
at least four persons of interest
"The school [Elan] had a $50k admission fee and unless the students flew in willingly, many were picked up by transport staff, the YouTube video stated. Parents would arrange pick-up but to the teen...
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Forum: Trials and Errors
4th January 2024, 03:08 PM
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Replies: 596
Views: 64,789
CCTV at Luke's school?
To demonstrate that Luke had a parka prior to the murder, the prosecution should have produced CCTV images from Luke's school of Luke's wearing it. If they did not look for such video, the police...
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
4th January 2024, 10:43 AM
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Replies: 292
Views: 6,843
hats off to Ken White
Attorney Ken White said in part, "If you think the question “is calling for the genocide of a group against your policy” is an easy question with a one-word answer, you’re wrong. I understand you...
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Forum: Trials and Errors
4th January 2024, 10:04 AM
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Replies: 66
Views: 5,322
Elan
The National Registry of Exonerations stated (https://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Pages/casedetail.aspx?caseid=5860) in part, "Other Elan students testified that these statements [of...
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Forum: Trials and Errors
4th January 2024, 05:57 AM
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Replies: 66
Views: 5,322
apparent lack of crime scene photographs
The New York Post reported (https://nypost.com/2002/05/12/prosecutors-carrying-on-decades-of-gross-bumbling/), “'The reason I wasn’t there [at the murder of Martha Moxley] was because I was on a much...
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Forum: Trials and Errors
3rd January 2024, 06:47 PM
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Replies: 66
Views: 5,322
time of death
I do not understand why her body was not found sooner. But that coupled with the apparent lack of an examination at the crime scene means that an attempt to determine the time of death using...
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Forum: Trials and Errors
3rd January 2024, 05:21 PM
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Replies: 66
Views: 5,322
48 hours
The host of a blog wrote (http://marthamoxley.www8.50megs.com/cops.htm), "They did not look underneath the pine tree where Martha lay dead...The medical examiner at the time, Elliot Gross, was...
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Forum: Trials and Errors
3rd January 2024, 10:20 AM
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Replies: 596
Views: 64,789
during Steven Kelly's testimony
Gordon McIlwraith wrote (https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Witness+flees+as+Jodi+pics+shown%3b+MURDER+TRIAL+HALTED+AFTER+ACCUSED...-a0126028389), "A YOUNG barman fled court as he was shown pictures of...
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Forum: Trials and Errors
2nd January 2024, 06:39 PM
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Replies: 18
Views: 1,298
James Glasgow
The Chicago Sun-Times reported that, "Will County State’s Attorney James Glasgow says he believes the original confession of convicted “Starved Rock killer” Chester Weger in the bludgeoning deaths of...
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Forum: Trials and Errors
2nd January 2024, 04:49 PM
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Replies: 18
Views: 1,298
what really happened?
I am not surprised, but it is always disappointing when the criminal justice system digs in its heels.
I am very doubtful that Chester Weger was involved, mainly on the basis of the bloody...
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Forum: Trials and Errors
2nd January 2024, 02:13 PM
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Replies: 18
Views: 1,298
No Vacancy
The State of Illinois (USA) is not (https://www.the-sun.com/news/9946196/chester-weger-prison-da-refuse-overturn-conviction/) budging: "Our position has not changed on vacating Mr. Weger’s...
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Forum: Trials and Errors
31st December 2023, 11:15 AM
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Replies: 623
Views: 40,155
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