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Ok, have then contact mine.Youw ill hear from my Solicitors!
Ok, have then contact mine.Youw ill hear from my Solicitors!
Texas is scheduled to release Genene Jones, a former nurse and suspected serial killer of children, early next year. Today, prosecutors in San Antonio moved to prevent her release, bringing a new murder charge against Jones in connection with the death of a child 35 years ago. ---
During a 15-month period between April 1981 and June 1982, the eight-bed pediatric ICU at Bexar County Hospital experienced a strange epidemic: 42 children — an extraordinarily high number — died there. Even more peculiar: 34 of the patients died during the 3-11 p.m. shift, and Jones, a licensed vocational nurse, had cared for 20 of them.
Several nurses had complained directly to supervisors about this disturbing pattern, later documented by a Centers for Disease Control investigation. But the supervisors had dismissed the notion that Jones — who spoke passionately about her patients — could be deliberately harming children. Certain something was terribly wrong, members of the medical staff began calling Jones’ hours on duty “the Death Shift.”
It wasn't bad. It would have been better as one 90 minute program, there really wasn't two hours of material. The conclusion was pretty good I thought.Blimey, Masterchef Australia is really hard-core.
BBC2 started a series on the Chillenden murders last night. I watched the first few minutes but my antenna went up when the clips showing the panel of 'experts' arguing started the programme.
I'll keep an eye on it, but the Beebs latest attempt at matching the impact of Making a Murderer looks to be yet another row show. Hope I'm wrong, because it's in very bad taste if it is.
Authorities have found a third body on the property of Todd Kohlhepp, the South Carolina real estate agent accused of murder and kidnapping.
The body, found Monday, was close to another body recovered the day before, Spartanburg County Coroner Rusty Clevenger told reporters. Not much is known about the two bodies. Tests by the coroner's office are to begin Tuesday.
"I can't state male or female, and ages," Clevenger said. "I can't state how long they've been deceased or how long they've been buried. There are a number of things I don't know at this moment, because I've got some more testing I've got to do."
Last week, authorities found the body of 32-year-old Charles Carver on Kohlhepp's farm near Woodruff, in northwest South Carolina. Carver was the boyfriend of Kala Brown, who was rescued from a metal shipping container on Kohlhepp's property.
Kohlhepp was arrested last week after authorities found the chained Brown, who was screaming for help. Kohlhepp confessed to a series of killings, authorities said.
The registered sex offender faces murder and kidnapping charges. Authorities say he could be connected to at least seven homicides.
http://edition.cnn.com/2016/11/08/us/south-carolina-murders-todd-kohlhepp/index.html
It wasn't bad. It would have been better as one 90 minute program, there really wasn't two hours of material. The conclusion was pretty good I thought.
The case against the chap they put away (Michael Stone) was (is) non-existent, but in truth, we really didn't want him on the streets...
More here:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/0/chillenden-murders-happened-bbc-reexamining-michael-stones-guilt/
If I had to speculate, I'd say that someone somewhere thought it likely the real killer was in prison and considered Mr. Stone better off where he was for the good of the public. He's a violent, dangerous criminal, innocent of this crime or not. In the USA he'd be on his third strike.but I wonder how many, if they were honest, would like their subject living next door?
I was pals with an ex-Met copper for a goodish bit and it was often interesting to see what the scuttle-butt was on various high-profile crimes and in general his info supports your thinking.I've always thought there are unsolved cases which perplex the various real crime websites but actually the police know full well who did it.
... I often wonder what is meant by 'reasonable doubt'. 80% chance of guilt? 90%? 51%? Almost all crimes are prosecuted on inferences, circumstantial evidence allows you to draw an inference (or a probability of guilt), which strengthens with succeeding pieces of circumstantial evidence. I wonder if anyone has tried to quantify it? ...
'Reasonable doubt' is a murky concept, and it's codified / handled in slightly different ways within different legal systems.
Generally speaking, probability doesn't enter into it at all. A jury is not supposed to be calculating, nor making decisions based on, odds. The usual standard concerns whether or not the prosecution has presented a case that demonstrates the defendant's guilt to an extent that leaves no room for at least one (reasonable) alternative explanation under which the defendant is not guilty as charged.
No amount of circumstantial evidence can effect the same 'force' as a single piece of evidence unequivocally and uniquely linking the defendant to the crime.
Yes, seems compelling, but for myself, I'd like to see the evidence in an unbiased way. It's too murky now, with invested parties for 'guilty' and not 'guilty' and money could motivate either side.Re Bamber I can only go on what I've read and the testimony of a possibly embittered ex girlfriend who initially named someone who had absolutely nothing to do with it would have made me doubt her evidence.
Access to White House farm by relatives who may have benefited financially from Bambers conviction, the late discovery of the suppressor and the claim that those same relatives were tasked with cleaning up the crime scene would have made me doubt the finding of Sheilas blood on it.
To me that would constitute reasonable doubt, hence my reluctance to convict.
I'm reading an anthology of writing about the Rolling Stones, edited by Sean Egan.
There is a good section about Brian Jones, which also covers his death.
Author Terry Rawlings who wrote a book about it titled Who Killed Christopher Robin? states that the policeman who inherited the original investigation told him, "Your book got pretty close to it, but the things I could tell you, which I can't, is a book in itself, but it will all come out eventually"
Not that it has, nor do I have any informed opinion on the case, but it's instructive how much the oft denigrated PC Plod knows.
As against that, there are quite a few cases where the police have decided on a certain 'doer' who subsequently is found not to have done it and the police seem unable to recalibrate, as it were. Don't get me wrong, they have a very difficult job and someone's got to do it, but I'm no believer in 'intuition', any more than Hercule Poirot.
... There's an argument that instinct is the result of cumulative experience and knowledge, and this might be true, but even one's instinct will be subject to the same biases I'd have thought.
Yeah it's normal behaviour, which is why it's so hard not to do it.Guilty. From examples of behaviour I extrapolate entire personalities and life choices.
Sounds a cliche but there was a baseball cap on the bus. He ate a Snickers and sounded like he was trying to eat it through a snorkel.
He also took swigs from a can of coke. When he got off he left the empty wrapper and can (still some in ) on the seat.
My instinct is he is not an upstanding member of the community. Mea culpa.
I think jury trials are very iffy myself.No good for jury service then.
"Don't bother with the evidence m'lud, he definitely looks like the sort of bloke who would do this kind of thing".
I must watch the very long documentary on the O.J. Simpson trial again before it disappears from the iplayer.
There is a suggestion the jury found him not guilty because they were pissed off of the months of being sequestered and the way they were treated.
I do too.I think jury trials are very iffy myself.
A (almost pathologically rational) pal of mine did jury service on a shop-lifting case. The accused, a well to-do middle class lady was bang to right on cctv. Absolutely guilty. There were two on the jury who wouldn't return 'guilty' despite the clearest evidence of guilt one might wish for. As as my pal remarked wryly, "they were of a similar demographic".I do too.
It's amazing just how many members of a jury will go on 'feelings' rather than facts.
A bit like this Tracey Ullman sketch ..A (almost pathologically rational) pal of mine did jury service on a shop-lifting case. The accused, a well to-do middle class lady was bang to right on cctv. Absolutely guilty. There were two on the jury who wouldn't return 'guilty' despite the clearest evidence of guilt one might wish for. As as my pal remarked wryly, "they were of a similar demographic".