Sonny Crockett
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Part 1:
I watched the first season of MAM back in early 2016, and S02 in 2018. Extremely well-done.
However, it's hard to watch this show - given that it's so disturbing & unsettling. Obviously TH's death was horrific. But, it's also horrific that two innocent people are in jail for a crime they didn't commit. Even if they do both get out of jail at some point (which may actually never happen), their lives have been ruined & their reputations have been irreparably tarnished.
I definitely feel that SA & BD are innocent based on what was seen in SO1 - however, S02 is even more thorough & IMHO just solidifies their innocence. Their most recent?! defense lawyer KZ is very intelligent & a crusader for those who have no voice. I am extremely impressed at the thoroughness she displayed in doing painstaking & difficult research re: this crime, as well as all of the difficult re-enactments - including going out of her way to buy the same car that TH drove back in 2005.
Unfortunately, BD & SA are still in jail, despite all of KZ's efforts. However, what this Netflix series has done is at least made the general public aware of this. I.e., prior to this series I had never even heard of this case - not being local to the Wisconsin/Michigan areas.
The case against SA & BD has a lot of holes:
1) If SA did commit this crime - which I don't believe - he would already have had intimate knowledge of the CJS, due to having been wrongfully incarcerated for many years prior to the crime taking place. So, I don't see how someone like this would:
-Commit the crime in the first place. I.e., why would he do this on the verge of receiving a big settlement from the state for the previous wrongful conviction?! Especially given that he knew - from personal experience - that people already thought he was a criminal. So, you would think he would have gone out of his way to stay on the straight & narrow from then on.
-However - even if you buy that he did the TH crime, why would he leave the car intact (and I consider hiding this somewhere on his property intact), as well as leaving his blood all over the interior & exterior of the car?! This makes 0 sense to me, especially since he had easy access to a car crusher (on his property), and IMHO could easily have destroyed the car without anyone thinking he was doing anything unusual. I know nothing about car crushers (outside of seeing cars being crushed in movies/TV shows), but it seems these are (or at least can be) fully capable of crushing/destroying vehicles beyond recognition.
And, even if you buy that he left the car intact for whatever reason, why would he leave his blood all over the interior, without even making an attempt at washing it off?! Ludicrous.
2) Re: BD, I find it reprehensible that he was even interrogated without a lawyer - or at least a guardian (i.e., his parents) present. This seems illegal to me, given that he was a minor - and an apparently developmentally disabled one at that. If you pay close attention to the interview(s) in S01 especially, the interrogators are just feeding BD the info. they want him to say. He definitely doesn't seem like he's confessing to a horrible crime by any means, but more that he's telling the interrogators what he thinks they want to hear so he can go home.
So, obviously there are quite a few unanswered questions here, which may never be answered to satisfaction:
1) So, since BD & SA didn't commit this crime, who did?!
2) Going along with this, who planted SA's blood in TH's car?! When I finished watching S01 I thought it was the authorities - using blood from a vial that had been taken from SA in the prior case. However, after seeing S02 I now think the blood may actually have been taken (by someone on the property) from the sink and somehow planted in the car.
In any case, I feel that whoever framed SA felt that, due to his previous history, he would make a good scapegoat for this crime. Re: BD, I feel he got unintentionally got caught up in this because the authorities were looking for someone (in addition to SA) to pin this on, and took advantage of BD's intellectual slowness to "help" them create a narrative that fit what they thought happened.
This case just proves something I've always known anyway: i.e., if you're poor & are accused of a crime - it's irrelevant whether you're innocent or guilty. You will still get screwed by the system. Conversely, if you have $ and are accused of the same crime, there is a great chance you will go free. Very unfair, but unfortunately that's the way the unequal justice system works in this country.
I watched the first season of MAM back in early 2016, and S02 in 2018. Extremely well-done.
However, it's hard to watch this show - given that it's so disturbing & unsettling. Obviously TH's death was horrific. But, it's also horrific that two innocent people are in jail for a crime they didn't commit. Even if they do both get out of jail at some point (which may actually never happen), their lives have been ruined & their reputations have been irreparably tarnished.
I definitely feel that SA & BD are innocent based on what was seen in SO1 - however, S02 is even more thorough & IMHO just solidifies their innocence. Their most recent?! defense lawyer KZ is very intelligent & a crusader for those who have no voice. I am extremely impressed at the thoroughness she displayed in doing painstaking & difficult research re: this crime, as well as all of the difficult re-enactments - including going out of her way to buy the same car that TH drove back in 2005.
Unfortunately, BD & SA are still in jail, despite all of KZ's efforts. However, what this Netflix series has done is at least made the general public aware of this. I.e., prior to this series I had never even heard of this case - not being local to the Wisconsin/Michigan areas.
The case against SA & BD has a lot of holes:
1) If SA did commit this crime - which I don't believe - he would already have had intimate knowledge of the CJS, due to having been wrongfully incarcerated for many years prior to the crime taking place. So, I don't see how someone like this would:
-Commit the crime in the first place. I.e., why would he do this on the verge of receiving a big settlement from the state for the previous wrongful conviction?! Especially given that he knew - from personal experience - that people already thought he was a criminal. So, you would think he would have gone out of his way to stay on the straight & narrow from then on.
-However - even if you buy that he did the TH crime, why would he leave the car intact (and I consider hiding this somewhere on his property intact), as well as leaving his blood all over the interior & exterior of the car?! This makes 0 sense to me, especially since he had easy access to a car crusher (on his property), and IMHO could easily have destroyed the car without anyone thinking he was doing anything unusual. I know nothing about car crushers (outside of seeing cars being crushed in movies/TV shows), but it seems these are (or at least can be) fully capable of crushing/destroying vehicles beyond recognition.
And, even if you buy that he left the car intact for whatever reason, why would he leave his blood all over the interior, without even making an attempt at washing it off?! Ludicrous.
2) Re: BD, I find it reprehensible that he was even interrogated without a lawyer - or at least a guardian (i.e., his parents) present. This seems illegal to me, given that he was a minor - and an apparently developmentally disabled one at that. If you pay close attention to the interview(s) in S01 especially, the interrogators are just feeding BD the info. they want him to say. He definitely doesn't seem like he's confessing to a horrible crime by any means, but more that he's telling the interrogators what he thinks they want to hear so he can go home.
So, obviously there are quite a few unanswered questions here, which may never be answered to satisfaction:
1) So, since BD & SA didn't commit this crime, who did?!
2) Going along with this, who planted SA's blood in TH's car?! When I finished watching S01 I thought it was the authorities - using blood from a vial that had been taken from SA in the prior case. However, after seeing S02 I now think the blood may actually have been taken (by someone on the property) from the sink and somehow planted in the car.
In any case, I feel that whoever framed SA felt that, due to his previous history, he would make a good scapegoat for this crime. Re: BD, I feel he got unintentionally got caught up in this because the authorities were looking for someone (in addition to SA) to pin this on, and took advantage of BD's intellectual slowness to "help" them create a narrative that fit what they thought happened.
This case just proves something I've always known anyway: i.e., if you're poor & are accused of a crime - it's irrelevant whether you're innocent or guilty. You will still get screwed by the system. Conversely, if you have $ and are accused of the same crime, there is a great chance you will go free. Very unfair, but unfortunately that's the way the unequal justice system works in this country.