Recent content by jwinchester

Somewhat OT, but I hope it's all right in the spirit of things: I really appreciate and admire how civil this board is compared to the wilderness out there. Even though I know some of you disagree extremely, you're still taking the time to engage without attacking. I hope it is clear that I...

But you're clearly claiming the "facts" driving the theory in part are actually ones which you don't even know exist. You "believe" they exist but you don't even know what they are. How can you say you're building a theory on unknown facts which may not even exist? Again, looking at Terri's...

I'd like to note that I have nothing but sympathy for Desiree, and while I can't applaud her choices, I also can't condemn them, because I understand how desperate and miserable she must be. I believe it would be impossible for her to act otherwise given what she believes, regardless of whether...

It really just doesn't work that way. You can't multiply weak evidence to get strong evidence. Nothing on the list actually adds up to the kind of circumstantial evidence that works in court when added up. That kind of evidence is: nobody saw her do it, but we saw her running away from the site...

True, but doesn't point to anyone. Evidence? Possibly not counting a minor. True, but doesn't point to anyone. Sorry, if you were accused of a crime but were innocent, you would hire a bad attorney? It's not a very strong alibi, but do you have any evidence it a false one...

Surely that has nothing to do with how many friends they have or how they dress, though.

Just out of curiosity, what would you think if she had called him first?

I've just started reading up on this case, but I had to say that one look at that vibrant young woman's beautiful smile on the first page really hit me with anger and sadness. Here's hoping she is found safe, and if not, that whoever hurt her is met with the full force of our justice.

It's comforting to think that dangerous people often seem weird before they do something evil, but the truth is that many normal seeming people hurt others, and many shy, isolated people would never hurt a fly. Because it is easy to show that the vast majority of people who wear black or watch...

Pardon if this is too OT, but I've never seen any series of CSI (for some reason, I'm only interested in either actual true crime or completely fictional mysteries; ripped-from-the-headlines stuff just makes me want to find out the real deal). My impression, though, was that it would not be...

That is true -- one possibility I've considered is that a person might feel even more compelled to cover up an accident if there were many family members around, and the same goes for a deliberate attack which may have been concealed from the others. So you are right that it cannot be ruled out...

I think taking the father's summary statement of what happened as being the absolute final complete description of the event is probably going to lead us astray. "I told him to stop" could mean anything from just saying "stop" to saying "hey buddy, I know that's funny but could you please stop"...

Can you explain what you think would motivate nine people who knew and loved the child to be emotionally capable of covering up his death after witnessing him being beaten to death without intervening? That just seems to stretch credulity for me. I use the word "dirty" to mean "messy" or...

One possibility I don't recall seeing come up is that Kyron, like his teacher, may have thought his appointment was that day and gone outside to wait to be picked up. A predator could easily have been skulking around -- the fair was advertised as being open to the public, and while stranger...

I dunno...I knew a guy once whose face looked like it was carved out of rock, but his long, wavy hair often made people mistake him for a woman from a distance or from behind.