Cappuccino
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I've only just realised - thanks to a post by Dysthymia - that this man doesn't have a thread of his own.
For the uninitiated - on the night of the murders, a local restaurant manager called the police to report that there was a black man in their ladies' bathroom kneeling on the floor of a cubicle with his head in his hands, covered in mud and blood and mumbling incoherently to himself. He had also soiled himself and thrown a pair of sunglasses into the toilet bowl.
Officer Regina Meeks of the WMPD responded to the call, but by the time she got there he had already left. She took the police report through the restaurant's drive in window and then immediately left to respond to another call. The staff at the restaurant partially cleaned the blood, mud and other mess from the bathroom, until Marty King, (the restaurant manager), spoke to an off duty police officer the next day who told him to stop cleaning. Two officers from the WMPD then went to the restaurant and took blood scrapingsA from the walls along with the sunglasses.
Bryn Ridge of the WMPD testified at Jessie Misskelley's trial that this evidence never made it as far as the crime lab because he had lost it. Here's a link to Marty King's testimony...
http://callahan.8k.com/wm3/martyking.html
For the uninitiated - on the night of the murders, a local restaurant manager called the police to report that there was a black man in their ladies' bathroom kneeling on the floor of a cubicle with his head in his hands, covered in mud and blood and mumbling incoherently to himself. He had also soiled himself and thrown a pair of sunglasses into the toilet bowl.
Officer Regina Meeks of the WMPD responded to the call, but by the time she got there he had already left. She took the police report through the restaurant's drive in window and then immediately left to respond to another call. The staff at the restaurant partially cleaned the blood, mud and other mess from the bathroom, until Marty King, (the restaurant manager), spoke to an off duty police officer the next day who told him to stop cleaning. Two officers from the WMPD then went to the restaurant and took blood scrapingsA from the walls along with the sunglasses.
Bryn Ridge of the WMPD testified at Jessie Misskelley's trial that this evidence never made it as far as the crime lab because he had lost it. Here's a link to Marty King's testimony...
http://callahan.8k.com/wm3/martyking.html