[Documentaries: True Crime For Your Eyes]

On 8/5/2017 at 2:26 PM, ghoulina said:

So I still haven't watched Paradise Lost, but I did finish reading The Devil's Knot last week. And I found a showing of West of Memphis on TV a few days ago, so I DVR'd that. Has anyone seen that one?

What I found very interesting was the theory that animals (specifically turtles) were to blame for all the markings on the boy, and the mutilation of Christopher's penis. When you watch the demonstrations and see the markings next to verified turtles bites - it's a very plausible theory. Which really turns the case on its head. Because that means the crime wasn't nearly as vicious as they were making it out to be. OF COURSE, the loss of 3 8-year-olds boys is.....unspeakable. I have two boys, 7 and 9. I cannot even fathom. Just beyond tragic to lose such young lives. So I don't want to diminish that. But if we're to believe that those boys were cut all over their body and one had his genitals mutilated by the killer; that leaves us looking for a very demented person. Whereas, if those marks were made by animals chewing on the boys while their bodies were hid/dumped, and they were just killed (not tortured, not mutilated) - that opens the door to a lot more possibilities when you're looking for the killer. 

Also interesting was the focus on Terry Hobbs. He was never mentioned in any serious way in The Devil's Knot. John Mark Byers got a lot of attention, but not Terry. I'm only halfway into the doc. I had to keep pausing any time my kids or husband (won't watch anything where kids are hurt) came into the room....and then it got so late I started falling asleep. But I'm curious to hear more about him, because he sounds like a pretty fucked up dude. 

What's insane, to me, is that Jessie seems to have a pretty locked down alibi for that night. Wrestling (shout out to Brendan Dassey!) - verified by more than one person. How was this kid EVER convicted???

Possums will make similar markings and will "destroy" a person's private areas, too. Collection of crime scene evidence should've included biological connection to animals, reptiles, insects, etc.

[Documentaries: True Crime For Your Eyes]

Not on current topic, but on the Cold Justice episode on the murder of the mother and her 6 yr old child, did the investigators ask the gf of "D" if he brought something home with him that he didn't own before?

Like the missing vcr that was stolen from the murdered woman's home???????