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A death sentence could have led to a new trial, with Vance rotting in jail, it's over. Maybe he'll trade the real story for an extra peanut butter sandwich some day.

Sounds like Vance's lawyers didn't think he was worth defending. I don't feel safer as a result.

No one testified that they saw him in the neighborhood. The prosecution rested with virtually none of the incriminating rumors on the record. According to news stories, LE didn't compare DNA from the people Vance implicated to the DNA from the crime scene. At very least, the officials were sloppy.

Forgive me if I said or implied that Vance was "innocent as the new fallen snow." My point is simply that no one is served, except the authorities, if LE simply closes cases without regard to solving the entire crime.

Vance supposedly knew she had a laptop although that wasn't publicized. Well, he may be stupid, but every moron knows there is barely a middle class house without a laptop, so it is hardly incriminating knowledge. The confessions don't help at all, they just have too many fundamentals...

The reported witnesses haven't testified yet. If they are reliable, they are also damning. If they aren't called, the story is nothing more than rumor. I live in the Heights, and even before the murder someone who was exhibiting himself would have been reported to police, not the neighborhood...

OK, but why didn't they get the rescuer DNA and use it to explain it, as apparently they did in the Anthony case? They say Vance's DNA wasn't in the data base until they checked the six month Marianna rape after the fact, fine. Maybe the other perpetrators aren't in the data base yet either...

I don't know much about criminal investigations, is it normal to find the DNA of three men on a victim's underwear and bed? Why would three rescue workers have handled her underwear? Should they have checked to determine whether the DNA is of the same men? Was the DNA under her fingernails a...

There is something weird about Vance's various confessions and the evidence we know about. This was a very bloody crime, it seems impossible that he wouldn't have transferred some of Anne's blood to his car, or elsewhere. The police have not, at least publicly, pursued the possibility that he...

In the days after the rescue there were reports from neighbors and others that there were five girls living in the yard, including Jaycee. The reason for the reports of two other girls has never been explained, has it?