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The Importance of Understanding
Some of the more fanciful crime shows will no doubt develop themes around the concept of the Mormon Mafia. After all, the attorneys general of Texas, Arizona, and Utah are leading the way with their fictions.
Read MoreThere is a community that will always believe any accusation that is made against a fellow citizen and then embellish the claims against the accused and fabricate more accusations. They have no need for thinking or facts.
Read MoreSchleicher County Sheriff David Doran proudly rode high on the publicity hog until the idiocy of the Texas Child Protective Services became apparent. Then he found that being a minion of the CPS wasn’t necessarily great.
Read MoreAs usual, my monkey mind jumped around, chattered, and interfered with my savasana. But then an epiphany struck.
Read MoreTwo Outagamie County, WI, jurors blatantly disregarded their responsibilities and instructions when they participated in a guilty verdict. Is this common behavior for jurors?
Read MoreIs a confession of events that occurred in a blackout valid?
Read MoreThe involvement of Jodi Stachowski in the Brendan Dassey trial was supposed to show that Avery moved his bedroom furniture to immaculately clean his home. She also testified to the two telephone calls that she placed to Steven Avery the evening of 31 October, 2005. Her testimony on the telephone calls was at odds with the closing rebuttal made by Wisconsin Assistant Attorney General Tom Fallon.
Read MoreDuring the fourth interrogation of Brendan Dassey, investigators attempted to implicate Brendan’s friend Travis, his brother Blaine, Jodi Stachowski, and others in the crime.
The interrogation was characterized by constant coercion of the sixteen‑year‑old special education student. Interrogators even managed to have Brendan say that a known truth was a lie.
Read MoreThe completion of the interrogation of Brendan Dassey at the Manitowoc County Sheriff’s Department contained even more leading and feeding by the interrogators.
Read MoreGreen Bay’s WGBA-TV was out looking for its usual shocking, disturbing, and emotional stuff that passes for news.
Read MoreThe Outagamie County Court Commissioner betrayed the public trust in a recent outburst. Is this a pattern?
Read MorePolice respond to a call about a suicidal person and then fatally wound him.
Read MoreThe confession from this interrogation was used in edited form at the trial of Brendan Dassey. Investigators and the State had a warrant ready to search the Avery property again, and this interrogation was needed to retroactively justify it. The two interrogators guided Dassey to supply statements they needed and at times told him what they wanted to hear. Investigators wanted to look for evidence of shooting, so Investigator Mark Wiegert told Dassey that Teresa Halbach was shot in the head.
Read MoreOn the morning of 1 March, 2006, lead investigators for the prosecution picked up Brendan Dassey from his school to take him to an interrogation. They stopped at his home to get a pair of jeans they believed implicated Dassey in the murder of Teresa Halbach. The jeans did not contain supporting evidence.
Read MoreThe Great Texas FLDS Raid is not the first of its kind for Texas Law Enforcement. In 2002, Houston police arrested over four‑hundred innocent people, patrons of Kmart and local restaurants, because they could not find drag racers.
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