Recent content by Swirlz

Just so we're clear, your stance is that the crime was a group activity with all 3 surviving family members acting as participants.

I don't believe Burke was involved.

Dr. Bernhard noted that his affect was flat. She didn't comment on whether or not he was traumatized. She chalked his lack of affect up to either shock, a lack of attachment to his family or a reaction to Patsy's being very emotional. Yeah, let's ask ourselves.

Found safe. I don't know how to link to Facebook.

I don't understand it either. Burke was cleared as a suspect in 1999.

The lead detective pled the 5th which meant he couldn't be cross-examined. I'm not seeing how this doesn't open the window to reasonable doubt. I BTW think a different jury could have come to a different decision. I'm not seeing how THIS jury was wrong though.

That the autopsy results weren't made public doesn't mean the R's didn't have access to them. Here's what has been made public about the ligature fibers in relation to Patsy: From Kolar's book: Lab technicians had identified eight different types of fibers on the sticky side of the duct tape...

The autopsy was completed on Dec. 27. The conversation between Doug and Burke was reported to have been overheard by Doug's mother, Susan, on Dec. 28, the next day. In a non-BDI scenario involving fatal abuse by a parent, BR would stay in his room and pretend to be asleep because he has either...

https://websleuths.com/threads/fl-woman-sues-police-after-being-forced-to-apologize-to-her-adoptive-father-who-raped-her-for-years-polk-county-2012.755574/

I watched the trial in it's entirety and agreed with the verdict. Both Cathy Griffith's children had been removed from her care repeatedly by Florida's DCF. Cathy had a very well documented history of violent and erratic behaviors. Collin begged repeatedly to be placed in foster care but was...

Madeleine McCann, Jonbenet Ramsey, Honey & Barry Sherman & Asha Degree

Not guilty verdict 30 yrs. ago today.

Does anyone have a source for this? I'm not saying there isn't one, I've just never seen it.

Probably. What do you think?

Fwiw my sources are the crime-scene walkthrough video, Patsy's police interview transcript and Steve Thomas' book.