I dont remember hearing if Jaekob had been sexually assaulted, It sure seems likely considering the nature of the way he was murdered.
Birdie:
Thank you for the additional information. On Jakeob’s Denver Post's cold case file page, there were numerous comments posted until just recently, but they now appear to have been expunged for some reason. Mr. Gary McKnight, Jakeob’s father, participated in the discussion for awhile before declining to do so any longer. Additionally, John Chinn (or at least someone purporting to be him) also posted one or more times. Mr. Chinn reiterated that he had an alibi for the time of the murder that he characterized as “ironclad.”
If Mr. Chinn had an alibi then why don’t those who are convinced of his guilt accept it? I am asking this out of ignorance. I don’t know the reason, and I am not editorializing. The alibi might well be the reason why the Lakewood criminal justice system never proceeded against him.
Do you know the nature of Mr. Chinn’s alleged alibi? Can the time of death of Jakeob’s murder be definitively established to a time frame in which Mr. Chinn’s alibi would be effective? Again, my primary question is to inquire why at least some do not accept his alibi evidence. What is the nature of the alibi? Is it just one person who can testify to his whereabouts? Two people? Several? If several, are they all lying for him? I don’t know the answer to these questions or I wouldn’t ask.
Thank you.
CS:
In regard to Birdie’s post asserting LE has an eyewitness, I have read that no other place and have no idea what the source is. If it is true, then all I can suggest is that there must be some reason why LE does not consider the witness to be credible.
It is also possible that the murderer was an unrelated party who had observed both Jakeob and Mr. Chinn together and saw an opportunity. It would not be all that much of a coincidence. If one wishes to hunt ducks, then one goes where the ducks are. Pedophiles do "hang out" at places where children are likely to frequent. If so, sometime after Mr. Chinn departed, the actual murderer made his advance. The timeline here needs to be clarified as well. As is so often the case when LE releases accounts of cold cases, the details given out are rather sparse.
I agree. If this were the case, I don't see why a grand jury would not vote to prosecute. I think unfortunately there are so many rumors and not enough facts floating around. I have so many questions as well, but I suppose we will never know and of the answers since we are not LE.
As I mentioned earlier in the thread, Chinn's friends and the parents of a friend claimed that he was having dinner with them at the time of the murder. An alibi from friends, including one who might also have been a suspect (Tom Judge), is in my opinion suspect at best.
Chinn's lawyers threatened to sue the Lakewood Police Department if they continued to investigate the case after they took a hair sample from Chinn. I find this truly bizarre and wish that LE would enlighten us on that situation; I've never before heard of a police department dropping an investigation because they were threatened with a lawsuit.
Was a murder weapon ever recovered? No. Within a day or two after the murder, volunteers and police scoured the area but never found the knife.
Was any DNA recovered? It seems that there should have been some, but LE is keeping quiet about it, if they did recover any.
Was Jakeob sexually assaulted?According to Rocky Mountain News reports, Jaakeob was NOT sexually assaulted.
Was Chinn ever given a lie detector test? (would be interesting to know the results as a tool if he was)I am not certain, but I do not believe that Chinn ever submitted to a lie detector test.
This is in NO WAY a judgment on the parents, but why was a 10 year old boy out swimming so late without a parent present? A profile published in the Rocky Mountain News a few months after the murder quoted Jakeob's father as saying, "I used to be happy-go-lucky[/i]."
I think this is very sad. I surmise that Jakeob's parents felt comfortable allowing him to go to the park to play. Whether he was allowed to swim, or just did without his parents' knowledge, I can only guess. But, evidently, Jakeob's parents did not feel he needed supervision every moment of the day, and I think it's sad that so many parents now keep their children on such a tight leash - although I do understand why they do, in light of such horrrible tragedies as this one.
Was Jakeob a very trusting type who would just leave with a stranger? I do get that impression, but it's just based on what I have read about the case. According to one newspaper account, the clerk at 7-Eleven asked Jakeob if he was buying ice cream for his older brother. Jakeob replied that the man who was with him was not his brother.
(The clerk's description of the man who was with Jakeobb matched Chinn's very closely, although on another now defunct blog, Chinn claimed to have never been at the 7-Eleven with Jakeob, and said that he had never had acne, as the clerk described.)
I just can't get my head around this case and how this MONSTER was able to snuff out an innocent life right out in public.
As a follow-up to my last post, one other point to consider is how likely it would have been that Mr. Chinn would have murdered (and sexually assaulted?it seems the only possible motive), Jakeob in the wake of his activates with the boy that day.
It is also possible that the murderer was an unrelated party who had observed both Jakeob and Mr. Chinn together and saw an opportunity. .
Seriously: I'm sure that if I even neglected to pay a traffic fine, I would end up doing the maximum 90-day sentence. Yet Chinn is suspected in more than one heinous crime against children, and in at least two drug cases, and has never, I believe, spent a day in prison. (If anyone has more information than I, please share it here.)
What's going on? This guy seems to be untouchable.