Just finished watching the 48 hours episode and it caught my attention enough to seek out more information. Is Redman innocent or guilty? I don't know, it could really go either way, but I feel there is reasonable doubt. Now I've read the Dateline episode on this had a more guilt leaning attitude, but I didn't catch that one. I do have some problems and questions about this case that I'm gonna drop here for some feedback.
1. The shoddy police work alone makes me feel there is cause for a not guilty verdict. I'm not privy to a full report but the autopsy sounds like it was half-assed (pardon the french) with her fingernails never even checked. Supposedly the scene where the body was found as well as the hotel room were never secured. This leads me to possible police corruption, now I'm usually the last to go for police corruption angles, but a Mexican vacation spot where their entire life blood is vacationers, locals killing said vacationers would not look well. In 2006 a Canadian couple was murdered in another resort and the Mexican authorities tried their hardest to place the blame on other Canadian as opposed to the more likely hotel staff. Lets not forget the attack on the girl a few weeks later in the same hotel, that's a bit of a coincidence.
2. The thing that screams guilt to me the most is Redmans desire to cremate the body, which make no sense to me. Then again this was also presented as second hand information as the coroner or someone associated with the coroner told the deceaseds sister this. In the end she was not cremated, so I'm not sure how much water this really holds. A lot of what I have read online has pinned the blame on Redman because he snuck across the border, but I don't really agree. He was there for 2 weeks after the body was found, so he would have likely known where the investigation was going and if he could do anything more to help. He may have also got the feeling that he was about to be arrested or formally accused, accused of murder in Mexico? I would have tried to get back to the U.S. at all costs myself. Plus I surely would have fought extradition to Mexico guilty or not. Nothing here screams guilt to me, just someone that doesn't want to go to prison in Mexico for something they may or may not have done.
3. The biggest kick for me though is the logistics of it. No way this guy planned to murder her there, or he wouldn't have got one big room with his kids there. So it was a heat of the moment thing if he did it, again that's a big risk with kids in the room. Also he would have taken a crazy risk to get the body outside to dump into the sewer... But say he did kill her I guess he had to do something with the body, but he must have been very lucky to do it without being seen. Scream in the hotel? Means nothing, it's a resort full of tons of people the scream could have come from anywhere, can't believe some kids would be able to pinpoint the exact room it was coming from. It could have been someone playing around, an argument in another room or just somebodies tv blasting. Do not disturb sign on the door? Means nothing, I do this very thing, and that's in America, I don't want people going through my room when I'm not there and if I need anything replenished I call for it. Plus in my younger days I heard more than one person talk about how they had things stolen while in Cancun on Spring Break, even stuff out of the safe.
Wow sorry for the length of that. I just wanted to get out a few of my thoughts, I have quite a few more for later though haha. Anyways I haven't followed this case at all so I'm very curious if there is anything I am missing or if any of you have other takes on it all, I'd love to hear it.
