Jeana (DP)
Former Member
Jeana, I think Jessie's IQ or lack thereof makes him a better candidate for a coerced confession, but to me, the more telling evidence is that he gets nearly everything wrong. To wit: the victims were NOT sodomized. Testimony to that effect came from an inexperienced investigator who did not understand the effect of death on the sphincter muscle.
(ETA: and he wasn't smart enough to excuse himself. In fact, it was his story that he caught one of the boys and dragged him back to Damian that got Jessie convicted of murder. I'll agree that anyone who doesn't know the law could make that mistake. It doesn't prove he is a moron, but his confession also doesn't prove he is a rocket scientist.)
I don't know Nova. The fact that he would know so many details about things that happened (sure, not all of them), leads me to believe that he was there. I think he may have had MORE of a hand in what happened and that's why his stories seem to change a bit. I think he was trying to keep his hands clean as much as he could, but I think he did way more than he's telling.