Identified! Canada - Casselman, Ont, 'Nation River Lady' WhtFem 239UFON, 25-50, May'75 *POI charged* - Jewell Parchman Langford

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''According to the documents, he told investigators he killed her after realizing that she had lied to him about her age. At the time of her death, the Tennessee woman was 48 years old and Nichols was 32.''
It's interesting that Rodney Nichols can remember that he killed Jewell Langford because he thought she was too old for him.

Also adding that its commendable that Canadian police have worked so long to identify Jewell and solve her murder.
 
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There's also a third option, in between 'faking his illness' and 'too ill, unfit to stand trial' - that he has dementia but is fit to stand trial. People with dementia aren't just fine one day and incompetent the next, millions of people live well with dementia for many years before they lose capacity.

I think he's made it quite clear that he remembers what happened. That doesn't mean he doesn't have dementia, but imo (and that's a very big imo as I'm no expert and haven't met him) it seems like that could mean he's fit to stand trial.
 
Great comments. All true. If he stands trial, this could be an interesting one.
 
There's also a third option, in between 'faking his illness' and 'too ill, unfit to stand trial' - that he has dementia but is fit to stand trial. People with dementia aren't just fine one day and incompetent the next, millions of people live well with dementia for many years before they lose capacity.

I think he's made it quite clear that he remembers what happened. That doesn't mean he doesn't have dementia, but imo (and that's a very big imo as I'm no expert and haven't met him) it seems like that could mean he's fit to stand trial.

Or he could have just had a rare lucid moment/day which happens even in very unwell dementia sufferers, who on the whole wouldn't be fit for trial. I guess the assessments are trying to determine the place on the scale from well -> unwell he fits.
 
My grandmother died of Alzheimer/dementia but she still remembered everything about her childhood/early life lol, but couldn't register new information at all. You don't completely lose your mind one day lol, you just slowly forget everything that happened in your life, from most recent to your oldest memories.

Maybe he does remember yeah, but the fact that he has diagnosed dementia, it will be easy to argue for the defense lol. I don't think he'll stand trial.
 
My grandmother died of Alzheimer/dementia but she still remembered everything about her childhood/early life lol, but couldn't register new information at all. You don't completely lose your mind one day lol, you just slowly forget everything that happened in your life, from most recent to your oldest memories.

Maybe he does remember yeah, but the fact that he has diagnosed dementia, it will be easy to argue for the defense lol. I don't think he'll stand trial.
Yes, I agree the older memories last the longest. IMO, the issue with being fit to stand trial is whether he can understand the situation now, ie the charges against him, what a trial is, what the consequences are, can he cooperate with his lawyer to mount a defense...

Also, if faking, he won't be able to just go back to real life, he'll require constant observation and control because he's so out of it all.

JMO
 
Yes, I agree the older memories last the longest. IMO, the issue with being fit to stand trial is whether he can understand the situation now, ie the charges against him, what a trial is, what the consequences are, can he cooperate with his lawyer to mount a defense...

Also, if faking, he won't be able to just go back to real life, he'll require constant observation and control because he's so out of it all.

JMO
Maybe I am missing something, but if he has "full onset dementia" like his lawyers claim and not "Rapidly Progressive dementia" that means he must have had his diagnostic years ago & not something that progressed just in the last months, so it's easy to know if he's faking it or not... It takes many years to reach full onset dementia... Also, doesn't he have a legal guardian? As soon as my gm had her diagnosis my gf became her legal guardian because she was deemed unfit.

I wish he would pay for what he did, but if he has had his diagnosis years ago and has a legal guardian, even though he can still undertand the situation now, it could be a lucidity moment lol, I don't think it would be ethical to try him.
 
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Maybe I am missing something, but if he has "full onset dementia" like his lawyers claim and not "Rapidly Progressive dementia" that means he must have had his diagnostic years ago & not something that progressed just in the last months, so it's easy to know if he's faking it or not... It takes many years to reach full onset dementia... Also, doesn't he have a legal guardian? As soon as my gm had her diagnosis my gf became her legal guardian because she was deemed unfit.

I wish he would pay for what he did, but if he has had his diagnosis years ago and has a legal guardian, even though he can still undertand the situation now, it could be a lucidity moment lol, I don't think it would be ethical to try him.
I'm with you about the ethics of putting someone on trial who is incapable of understanding what's going on. But what do you do with someone like this? Do we presume he is already in a prison of his mind, where he may have brief periods of lucidity and understanding?
 
the line is a delicate one. Is he unfit to stand trial, or is he trying to get away with murder?

And meanwhile he’s certainly not getting any younger.

Any updates?
 
It's been over a year since Rodney Nichols confessed to Jewell Parchman Langford's murder. One year plus a few months should be enough time to evaluate Nichols mental state when he confessed to her murder.
JMO, they're just going to keep him institutionalized until he dies instead of trying him for murder.

 
It's been over a year since Rodney Nichols confessed to Jewell Parchman Langford's murder. One year plus a few months should be enough time to evaluate Nichols mental state when he confessed to her murder.
JMO, they're just going to keep him institutionalized until he dies instead of trying him for murder.

I think it's difficult to try an individual who has dementia with occasional bouts of lucidity. I think perhaps we should be thankful that Nichols actually confessed to Jewell's murder during one of those periods of lucidity. He won't spend a day in prison for his crime but the crime has been solved, albeit without a conviction and sentence.
 
I think it's difficult to try an individual who has dementia with occasional bouts of lucidity. I think perhaps we should be thankful that Nichols actually confessed to Jewell's murder during one of those periods of lucidity. He won't spend a day in prison for his crime but the crime has been solved, albeit without a conviction and sentence.

I don't know anything about his current state of mental health. He's also living in a hospital where he can likely leave at any time. He's living a pretty good life for his situation. It's certainly not the prison he deserves. JMO
 
He's also living in a hospital where he can likely leave at any time. He's living a pretty good life for his situation. It's certainly not the prison he deserves. JMO
Do you know that for certain? I thought he was still under arrest, facing murder charges, so I very much doubt he's free to do as he pleases. A hospital can be a prison, too, where they lock up patients who are a danger to themselves or others.

JMO
 

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