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Based on the letter to the crime lab, Gitchell was only echoing Peretti about the urine. Personally, I've never believed it existed. What I think happened is that Peretti saw some yellow liquid in the stomach (maybe stomach acid, maybe something else) and, being the stellar forensic pathologist that he is, he surmised that it was urine. After all, that would mesh with the State's whole "Satanic ritual killing" BS. He made an offhand statement to that effect, and Gitchell ran with it. Again, I don't think the urine ever existed, and I believe I've read/heard something to that effect. Just wish I could find it!
Here's the link to the letter: http://callahan.8k.com/wm3/gitchell_letter_5_26_93.html
ETA: Just read something on another board (so I can't post a link - TOS) that convinces me that the whole urine thing was rumor. The poster there stated that the urine rumor originated with SJ, the juvenile officer. He told DE that there was urine in the mouths of the victims according to this statement: http://callahan.8k.com/wm3/dwe.html
Here is the pertinent part of the statement re: urine:
"DAMIEN STATED THAT STEVE JONES FROM THE JUVENILE AUTHORITY HAD BEEN BY TO SEE HIM A DAY OR TWO BEFORE AND THAT STEVE HAD TOLD HIM ABOUT HOW THE BOYS TESTICLES HAD BEEN CUT OFF AND THAT SOMEONE HAD URINATED IN THEIR MOUTHS. HE STATED THAT STEVE STATED THAT COULD HAVE BEEN THE REASON THAT THE BODIES WERE PLACED IN THE WATER SO THAT THE URINE COULD HAVE BEEN WASHED OUT."
Now, as the other poster pointed out, how in the world did SJ know that there was urine in the mouths of the victims before the autopsy was made public????? The interview with BR was on May 10th. DE said that SJ told him about the urine "a day or two before" the May 10th interview with BR. So, the interview between DE and SJ could not have occurred any earlier than May 8th. The autopsies were not performed until May 7th. The assistant ME (FP) didn't finish the autopsies until the afternoon, but SJ knew about the urine within two days???? Also, as the poster on the other board pointed out, no urine samples were taken from DE, CJB or JM, Jr. If urine had been present, wouldn't one think that samples would have been collected from the three suspects?
IMO, this whole urine thing was just another car in the train that was designed (by the wmpd, chiefly JD and SJ) to take DE to Death Row. Maybe some would opine that, if DE knew about the urine this early, he put it there. If so, why was this never brought up in the trial????? Strange, to say the least!
Here's the link to the letter: http://callahan.8k.com/wm3/gitchell_letter_5_26_93.html
ETA: Just read something on another board (so I can't post a link - TOS) that convinces me that the whole urine thing was rumor. The poster there stated that the urine rumor originated with SJ, the juvenile officer. He told DE that there was urine in the mouths of the victims according to this statement: http://callahan.8k.com/wm3/dwe.html
Here is the pertinent part of the statement re: urine:
"DAMIEN STATED THAT STEVE JONES FROM THE JUVENILE AUTHORITY HAD BEEN BY TO SEE HIM A DAY OR TWO BEFORE AND THAT STEVE HAD TOLD HIM ABOUT HOW THE BOYS TESTICLES HAD BEEN CUT OFF AND THAT SOMEONE HAD URINATED IN THEIR MOUTHS. HE STATED THAT STEVE STATED THAT COULD HAVE BEEN THE REASON THAT THE BODIES WERE PLACED IN THE WATER SO THAT THE URINE COULD HAVE BEEN WASHED OUT."
Now, as the other poster pointed out, how in the world did SJ know that there was urine in the mouths of the victims before the autopsy was made public????? The interview with BR was on May 10th. DE said that SJ told him about the urine "a day or two before" the May 10th interview with BR. So, the interview between DE and SJ could not have occurred any earlier than May 8th. The autopsies were not performed until May 7th. The assistant ME (FP) didn't finish the autopsies until the afternoon, but SJ knew about the urine within two days???? Also, as the poster on the other board pointed out, no urine samples were taken from DE, CJB or JM, Jr. If urine had been present, wouldn't one think that samples would have been collected from the three suspects?
IMO, this whole urine thing was just another car in the train that was designed (by the wmpd, chiefly JD and SJ) to take DE to Death Row. Maybe some would opine that, if DE knew about the urine this early, he put it there. If so, why was this never brought up in the trial????? Strange, to say the least!