Chief amongst the "lets pretend we don't know" is the fact that the Article 32 was BEFORE the majority of the evidence was analyzed thus it has been OBE (over taken by events) such as the Re-Investigation, the Grand Jury, AND the TRIAL at which the government presented over 1,100 pieces of physical evidence via 28 witnesses both lay and expert. The jury convicted inmate. He is guilty, anyone with even the most basic critical thinking skills KNOWS he is guilty, and he will remain in prison where he belongs.
The Stombaugh re-investigation was fabricated out of whole cloth. That so-called evidence was never presented in an excellent court. There was never any public criticism of the close connection between the popular media, and corruption in the Army CID and CIA and FBI. Opinions are not facts or evidence.
desi - did you notice he still hasn't provided a salient, comprehensive, and/or logical reason why he doesn't accept a certain hippy girls confession that she WATCHED inmate slaughter his family (the only confession that comes close to matching the evidence)?
Fatal Vision, Fatal Vision, Fatal Vision, that is your problem you keep Fatal Vision as a source. Fatal Vision is a fiction book. Joe McGinness was on the stand for 4 or 5 days embarrassing himself. He was caught in so many lies.
He admitted he didn't even believe his own diet pill theory. He is a known liar.
Quit using Fatal Vision as a source of information on the case.
Give me physical evidence that MacDonald did this. The weapons are not
evidence of anything. If MacDonald is guilty then he threw the weapons out
back. If MacDonald is innocent then the killers dropped the weapons on the
way out. So give me evidence that he is guilty.
The only weapon that has proven to come from his house was the club. The governments theory is that It was in the master bedroom where Jeff picked it up.
What is weird about that is that the club was weatherworn and it matched with the other wood that was found out back. The governments theory is also that Colette picked up a knife just laying around in the master bedroom, why would they have a knife laying around with a 2 and 5 year old in the house? *Why don't you try with the two things the jury said they came to convict MacDonald on. "No blood on the hallway steps" and "No evidence of outside assailants".
Logan
You don't seem to fully appreciate that criminals sometimes tell lies, or no comment and categorically deny, when they are being interviewed by the police.
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Dwight Smith in the MacDonald case could not remember anything about where he was the night before. It was clearly erroneous for Judge Dupree and Judge Fox to reject and ignore the numerous confessions out of court of Stoeckley and Mitchell.
Logan on that Google groups MacDonald forum had the right idea in 1998:
Here is some night time reading material for the Landlord of MacFantasy Island.
http://www.crimearchives.net/1979_macdonald/affidavits/1984-07-12_EDNC_fbi_aff03_madden.html
6. He could not recall specifically where he was during the evening of February 16 or the early morning hours of February 17, 1970. He does remember that during the early or mid-morning hours of February 17, 1970, that Ray Davis and Cuyler Windham, SBI Agents, came to his residence and spoke with him and Pat Reese regarding the MacDonald murders. They were seeking information from Smith and Reese as to possible suspects as the SBI had a description of a group of individuals which may have participated in the MacDonald murders. To the best of Smith's recollection, he was unaware of the MacDonald murders until informed about same by Windham and Davis.
> * *Do you happen to know *the names of some of *the people, especially men,
> who were considered to be part of the Stoeckley crowd, *besides Greg Mitchell,
> Stoeckley's boyfriend at the time?
Don Harris , Ray Cazeras, Cathy Perry, Pam Kriwanek, Robert Wallack, Larry
Cook, Diane Cazeras, Thomas Vincent Brown, Bruce Fowler, and Kathy Smith is
all I can think of right now.
Dwight Smith was half-suspected of the MacDonald murders the day after the murders by the SBI. or the North Carolina Bureau of Investigation as I say.
He told them that he couldn't recall or remember where he was the night before. It wasn't until 1982 that the FBI questioned him.
Dwight Smith was half-suspected of the MacDonald murders the day after the murders by the SBI. or the North Carolina Bureau of Investigation as I say. He told them that he couldn't recall or remember where he was the night before. It wasn't until 1982 that the FBI questioned him. Like Wall Street bankers he seems to be unregulated and above the law. The FBI never kept a close watch on him. There were other suspects, as mentioned by Logan on that Google groups forum in 1998: