Here is a way of looking at these murders, just my opinion as I have no vested interest nor ties to the case that is now 32 days from trial. I was told by an experienced homicide investigator crimes like this, those who commit them have motive, opportunity, and ability. From what Blacklist shared there is evidence of abilty- military trianing and violent behavior against women and children. I suggest there is opportunity and say this because the payphone records reveal the precise time Tracie Hawlet called her mother, 11:38 PM. Four friends were waiting for JB and Tracie at the shell station in Midland City, see map attached, that shows a 19 minute drive. Prior to this, if the witnesses who have come forward are truthful, then they were at a party location on highway 36 near Bethel church /old Johnson place, 11 minutes from the Ozark Big Little store. OPD knows they are at the Big LIttle minutes before it closes as the clerk stated she gave one of the girl's change for the payphone. So if at 11 you drive 11 minutes to a party, then spend x minutes talking to people, then drive 11 minutes back to the store you are now at 11:33 PM. X the number not known. What is known is at 11:38 PM Tracie calls her mother and says they are going to miss the curfew and stop on the way home to meet some friends who waited for them at the Shell on 231 (see map) . FOR THOSE ARGUING MCCRANEY IS INNOCENT DO THE MATH. The x number is 5 minutes, I do not believe this is enough time for some sort of encounter between JB Beasley and Coley McCraney. This means the sexual encounter, be it rape or consensual, had to occur AFTER they left the Big Little store during the time the defendant's wife has alibied him at a time that approaches the patholgist's estimate of the time of death. If McCraney's wife alibi collapses, as how Rena Crumb's statements did, this is devastating to David Harrison's defense strategy. People lie for a reason. The payphone records and the security video are not lying. And its reasonable to think they did not decide, while enroute to meet boys they had been dating, to have a random sexual encounter. I'm not sure how "reasonable doubt" works in a case like this where a timeline inidcates guilt, maybe an attorney or someone with a legal background can share. But according to Officer Bryan and Marlos Walker's testimony McCraney has claimed he did not know the girls, then we have his wife providing an alibi during the time the girls were abducted one raped then killed. But that appears to be a lie as the timeline shows the DNA which without question is McCraneys, is on JB Beasley. We have close proximity from McCraney to Hering street where the victims were found. You can wear a fancy bowtie and say all you want to the media like everyone knows a cop killed them and do your best to drag a police department through the mud but math is math. Your client continues to lie so what I hope a jury can get to is the truth what was the motive and who was involved, quit lying. The only possible way to break through this is the threat of the death penalty unless you tell what you know and be able to prove it. Blacklist appears to be a lawyer so I hope maybe he or she can reply with insight on how "reasonable doubt" works ina largely circumstantial case when you can prove a defendant and those providing him an alibi are lying and the math of a timeline places him with the victim near the time of death. BTW for those curious the McDaniels guy in what Blacklist shared is deceased- cancer.
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