three hairs that don't match the family's DNA
I hate that I find this troubling...
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three hairs that don't match the family's DNA
MacDonald claimed to have mistaken the plank for a baseball bat.
It seems like in every town, there are "characters." An oddball that everyone recognizes, whether they are slow, a little crazy or dress weird. I guarantee Helen Stoakley was one of Fort Bragg's characters. Funny, he could describe her to a T, but only offered a generic "black guy" description about the guy he was physically fighting, though he was observant enough to notice the man was wielding an ice pick.
I last read the book many years ago and don't remember a lot of it. But, if this is true, what drug crazed stranger is going to care about wiping away evidence? I also seem to remember that fingerprints were wiped from the telephone. Maybe Stokely was threatened that she would be charged with murder if she gave MacDonald an alibi, but I don't know that this is illegal. Seems like just a true statement to me.The alleged killers happened upon MacDonald's latex surgical gloves under the sink and decided that this was the moment to don one and write in her blood. After the overkill. Suddenly a need for hygeine prevailed. Oh right, and they wiped off the weapons on the bath mat.
Ooh, I searched all over for a thread about this case (one I'd never heard of) after a visit to Costco where I picked up and read the sleeve blurb for a new book - A Wilderness of Error - by Errol Morris. All I could find was this thread in the Archived Cases forum where I posted.
I did go back and get the book and managed to devour 200 pages or so yesterday afternoon before getting dragged away by husband out to dinner with friends. Obviously it's coming from the POV that JM is innocent and, I have to say, EM's account is very compelling thus far and leads me to a presumption of at least reasonable doubt and an unsafe conviction. Trying not to jump to any hasty conclusions though, I'm going to find and buy the other book - Fatal Vision - referenced in the Archived thread and read that too before forming an opinion.
Even the defense had serious concerns about HS.
Why would Blackburn threaten a witness/suspect who was never credible in the first place?
I don't recall this finding one way or the other. I'd have to research it.If I remember right they determined that Collette was killed by someone who was left handed....Jeffrey MacDonald is right handed.
At that time period lots of girls wore floppy hats; it was the style. One of my best friends in high school wore one of those hats, too, so it wouldn't be unusual to see a girl wearing one.Also the officer seeing the woman with the floppy hat on the side of the street after the time of the murders....Jeffrey MacDonald had stated seeing a woman with blonde hair with a big floppy hat.....that would have been HS.
I never could figure out why HS would say she was in the house if she wasn't. But, then again, I've never been a druggie and have no idea what goes on in their minds.I don't see why HS would have said that she was in that house that night if she really wasn't. It was HS's boyfriend that killed Collette. JMO
I wonder if Morris is missing the accolades and is grasping to find another innocent man to champion. I see this as a desperate attempt to regain some fame, regardless of whether McDonald is guilty or not.
Which I totally think he is and always have.
This was my introduction to true crime; I read Fatal Vision under the covers when I was barely even a teenager. The idea of him ever getting out makes me sick.