Two for the road
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Ozoner,
I wasn't saying you were right/wrong. I was simply stating that finding their skeletal remains in a car that may have been in TT's posession 40+ years ago is going to prove awfully hard for a DA to make a conviction solely off that. Defense attorneys will be able to insert reasonable doubt all over this case and after so long, absent a confession, the murder charges likely wont stick for lack of physical evidence.
DA needs to prove:
-motive for murdering 3 girls.
-placing murderer at scene
-finding evidence murderer was in car remains were found in
...
If police aren't making a point of listening and/or believing witness accounts, it will be hard to prove he was there.
Without witnesses placing him at benbrook lake, it will be impossible to prove it was actually him and not someone who took his car that put it in the lake.
If they can't place him at the lake, but find his DNA in the car, it was his car.
So my original point that just because they find the remains doesn't mean TT will be proven guilty. It just means the families will have closure. Closure and justice are different things in my book.
Remember the prosecution has the burden of proof beyond a reasonable doubt. There is plenty of reasonable doubt here.
I wasn't saying you were right/wrong. I was simply stating that finding their skeletal remains in a car that may have been in TT's posession 40+ years ago is going to prove awfully hard for a DA to make a conviction solely off that. Defense attorneys will be able to insert reasonable doubt all over this case and after so long, absent a confession, the murder charges likely wont stick for lack of physical evidence.
DA needs to prove:
-motive for murdering 3 girls.
-placing murderer at scene
-finding evidence murderer was in car remains were found in
...
If police aren't making a point of listening and/or believing witness accounts, it will be hard to prove he was there.
Without witnesses placing him at benbrook lake, it will be impossible to prove it was actually him and not someone who took his car that put it in the lake.
If they can't place him at the lake, but find his DNA in the car, it was his car.
So my original point that just because they find the remains doesn't mean TT will be proven guilty. It just means the families will have closure. Closure and justice are different things in my book.
Remember the prosecution has the burden of proof beyond a reasonable doubt. There is plenty of reasonable doubt here.