Recent content by DragonAsh

Well, strictly speaking there is zero correlation between the first point ('must have been earlier than 7pm') and the second point ('her bedtime was 8pm') - Maria's bed time has no bearing on what time the kids went outside to play. And besides, nobody is suggesting the time they started to play...

Which means that even if we take the earlier time line from Maria's father - i.e., that Maria went outside to play at 6:15pm - there still isn't time for Jack to commit the crime. Kathy's testimony was that she was outside with Maria for '15-30 minutes', which means the absolute very earliest...

OK, the State’s timeline is definitely screwy, and I can’t for the life of me figure out why the defense didn’t jump on this. According to the testimony of Charles Ridulph, Maria’s older brother, he was at home looking at baseball cards and listening to records with his friend Randy Strombom...

You’re joking, right? You think, based on that picture, that the area was well-lit? Actually, shouldn’t you listen to the person with the infallible memory even after 50-odd years? Chapman herself says it was ‘very very dark’ and that if you moved just a little bit...

First of all - none of what you write is in the neighborhood of being even remotely close to being something that could almost be considered to be in the realm of resembling 'evidence'. Secondly, is there any direct evidence for anything you've written? Because it seems to me it's along the...

No, someone said that's what he said. Or someone said they heard that's what they said. Wouldn't even be allowed as evidence in court. Do you have a cite for the 'wire mark' on her neck? The body was so badly decomposed and picked at by carrion I would be surprised that her skin etc would be...

1) Firstly, I am going to go out on a limb and say you don't have kids. I have two beautiful kids, 3 and 5, and when we're at parties and such and the conversation invariably one of the parents says something along the lines of how exasperated they get when the kids throw a temper-tantrum in the...

Sorry, this doesn't wash with me. If she wasn't observant enough to take much notice of a kid living just around the corner, when she and Maria undoubtedly would have seen him on occasion, particularly since she played with other Tessier kids, then how the hell are we supposed to believe that...

All this speculation and scenarios – I dunno, I’m not interested in making WAG as to what may or may not have happened. Evidence is scarce enough as it is in this case. We have a dead little girl. We have a man in prison, likely to be there for the rest of his life, when I think there are...

Because where he was in the afternoon is irrelevant to whether or not he was in Sycamore at 6:30pm, because the footprint easily could have been Charles / Kathy / friends or one of the other adults walking in the area, because the same report says that the doll wasn't near the garage when people...

Be careful - according to some people on this site, expressing a sentiment along those lines apparently means you're guilty of murder. I'm not sure what point this is trying to make; I'm sure you can see how this is complete nonsense right? The driver of the oil truck said he saw the girls...

So there's a lamp post or something, but you don't have to go far to be out of the light. It's an hour after sunset, it's cloudy, and snowing. These are the conditions that Kathy says she saw Johnny's face for a few minutes while they were running around, he's giving piggyback rides, she's...

I think my last post may have been a bit too harsh - my writing style tends towards the sarcastic as it is, but it was probably uncalled for. I apologize. I stand by my basic point, however - and I think it was echoed by someone else up-thread: The vast majority of posts, going back to when...

Firstly: A ‘person of interest’ at the time isn't allowed to feel that the murder of a little 7yr old girl is tragic? He’s not allowed to feel sad about the loss of a life far too soon? Really? He’s what, 70 now? You don’t think older people get emotional when...

Thanks for the reply. I find so much wrong with it I don't know quite where to start :-) Cite for his 'fascination' with Maria? Who testified to this? Surely you're not basing this on comments he made 55 years later, right? I mean, you have testimony from people saying he talked about her at...