Then there was Angela Hamby who was twelve years old in 1989 when she was attacked. DNA has been around only since 1986, and the first murder case it solved was that of the aforementioned Colin Pitchfork, but advances in the technology now showed Reed had raped Angela too. Elsewhere but not here, Reed’s brother […]
According to the Internet Movie Database, the documentary Stacey Stites: The Girl In The Pines was first aired December 11 last year. The full episode was uploaded to YouTube on August 12, to a channel with over a thousand subscribers, but by midnight August 19/20 it had been viewed only 19 times. Why so few? […]
The Emma-Jayne Magson case is a different kind of abuse of the appeal process. In March 2016, Magson stabbed James Knight through the heart with a steak knife. At first she denied it, then claimed self-defence, then some concocted mental “disorder”. At her first trial, later that year, Magson didn’t testify. She was convicted and […]
Every criminal justice system worthy of the name has an appeal process. In England, the Attorney General may appeal against an unduly lenient sentence. In Canada, the Crown may appeal against an acquittal. For the most part though, the right to appeal is weighted in favour of a convicted person, but winning an appeal is […]
In December 2019, the case of Rodney Reed was reported here. This lowlife serial rapist was sentenced to death for the April 1996 murder of teenager Stacey Stites. Reed was brought to book after he was outfoxed by his last victim, Linda Schlueter, who was in effect carjacked and nearly raped. At trial, Reed faced […]
Linda’s encounter with Reed was November 9/10, 1996. He was arrested a few months later, and Linda identified him. He could also have been tried for attacking her, but again, the authorities seemed to think such a prosecution superfluous when his DNA matched the man who had raped Stacey. They will probably think again next time they arrest someone like Reed.
