MainCases http://truejustice.org/ee/index.php/casestolearnfrom en editor@truejustice.org Copyright 2022 2022-11-19T15:18:00+00:00 In Strong Similarity To Perugia, Student Deaths Send US Campus Town Reeling https://www.truejustice.org/ee/index.php/site/in_strong_similarity_to_perugia_student_deaths_send_us_campus_town_reeling https://www.truejustice.org/ee/index.php/site/in_strong_similarity_to_perugia_student_deaths_send_us_campus_town_reeling#When:15:18:00Z {summary} Overview Moscow is a campus town of the University of Idaho about 300 miles due east of Seattle. It is not dis-similar to Perugia in having a huge student population (over 10,000) residing in a town with a total population only three times that size. The killing by stabbing of four students may have been done while they were sleeping, though each fought back. Two other students in the apartment building were not even awoken. Someone else some hours later, their identity not yet made public, made the first police call. For several days, the local police police acted very secretively. After they reversed themselves and announced they could not guarantee anyone’s safety, thousands of students poured out. As in Perugia, some may never return to that town again. FBI from four offices are finally on the job. The new analysis below is a good one. More information pending. These are the house coordinates to cut and paste for Google Earth. 46°43’19.35"N 117° 0’38.60"W [Mentions of “greek” below is explained here] 2022-11-19T15:18:00+00:00 Comparing The Kercher & Petito Cases: What’s Similar, What Differs https://www.truejustice.org/ee/index.php/site/comparing_the_kercher_petito_cases_whats_similar_what_differs https://www.truejustice.org/ee/index.php/site/comparing_the_kercher_petito_cases_whats_similar_what_differs#When:13:40:00Z {summary} Timeline uploaded this past Thursday Long post. Click here to go straight to Comments. 1. Overview Of Petito Case Gabrielle “Gabby” Petito and Brian Laundrie met when at high-school on Long Island a few miles east of New York. Brian’s parents moved to western Florida south of St Petersburg, apparently in 2015 when their house was bought (for just over $100,000), and they run a juicing-machine-sales business from there. Gabby and Brian became engaged, and moved in with them down there. Neither have full college degrees, but Gabby has some nutritionist training and did work. Brian? Not clear. Seemingly a bright and loving couple, they had established a way of traveling to great locations and mostly sleeping in a small van Gabbie owned. They reported all this “van life” on social media video which had a sizeable following and so would have given them some sort of financial return. This latest trip had taken them west from New York to southern Utah, where, with various incidents reported en-route, they headed north through eastern Utah to western Wyoming. There, a week ago, just outside a dispersed camping ground, Gabby’s lifeless body was found. She had been dead for possibly three weeks.    2. Similarities 1. In the US, these are perhaps the highest-profile murder cases in recent years 2. The two girls were of approximately the same age; both sets of parents are divorced. 3. Each girl was killed by someone seemingly sociopathic and in a psychotic rage. 4. Each presumed killer knew their victim well; signs of tension were seen by friends. 5. Each presumed killer rearranged the crime scene and worked on creating an alibi. 6. Each of the suspected killer’s parents circled the wagons and hired hardline help. 7. In each case national-level law-enforcement and their excellent labs became involved. 3. Differences 1. In the US Gabby has about 100% of public support; Meredith was deliberately ignored. 2. Gabby built a large following on social media; serious student Meredith not so much. 3. Local police in Utah and Florida made critical mistakes; in Italy, they made none. 4. Meredith’s family were illegally stalked; Gabby’s two sets of parents are revered. 4. Mysteries remaining 1. Why did Laundrie fly back to Florida leaving Gabby alone in Salt Lake City Utah for a week? Did he need a new prescription for mental-health-related meds? 2. Why did the cops who accosted the pair north of Moab Utah not know HE had been reported hours before for hitting Gabby on a Moab street? [resolved] 3. Did Laundrie’s extended psychotic-rage incident in a Jackson Wyoming restaurant (some 30 miles south of where she was found), which Gabby apologized to staff for, lead to her death? 4. Oddly, around the time of death, Laundrie hitchhiked twice, from way north of the campground, heading back south; was he trying to create an “I wasn’t there” alibi? 5. Gabby’s death is officially a homicide; where exactly was her body found, was it buried, and what was the cause of death? [resolved] 6. Why did Brian drive back to Florida in Gabbie’s van after seemingly trying to create an alibi and then fail to report and refuse to talk? 7. Where exactly is he now? Below: Smart, but watch with caution. This was before Gabby’s body was found, and entertains a long trip west of the Tetons, impossible once the date of Laundrie’s Jackson restaurant meltdown is factored in. 2021-09-25T13:40:00+00:00 Comments Under US Media Reports Almost Universally Scathing Of Rome Killers Defense https://www.truejustice.org/ee/index.php/site/comments_under_us_media_reports_universally_scathing_of_rome_killers https://www.truejustice.org/ee/index.php/site/comments_under_us_media_reports_universally_scathing_of_rome_killers#When:10:58:00Z {summary} Click through to comments, around 800 as of now. - Prisoner: “I didn’t know he was a cop, your honor, so I should get mercy” Judge: “you stabbed him 11 times in “self defense” while trying to buy cocaine because you didn’t know he was a cop?” - Just don’t commit a crime, I don’t care if the person they killed is a cop or drug dealer, one who commits crime like this has to pay the price, in this case they took a life, and have to serve life behind bars. - GREAT JOB ITALY, THANKS, THIS IS JUSTICE, JUSTICE FOR OFFICER… Click through to commnents, around 300 as of now. - WAKE UP Parents. Your kids dont need friends who carry BIG KNIVES. - The American News will put on the perpetrators family and friends, who will let you know how great they were, or some other type of excuse they will use. They never get the person who will say they were too crazy, America News never interviews that person because he’s too honest. [Already proven correct: see comment on Associated Press report below] Click through to comments, around 200 as of now. - “We didn’t know he was a policeman”......because it would be ok to murder a civilian????????? Are these parents for real?!?? - “there are questions whether they properly identified themselves as police”. Yeah right, because if they did identify themselves as police, then it would be ok to kill them??? - I usually find an angle against the cops, but stabbing someone 11 times over a bad drug deal for $80? Take the loss and keep moving. The streets don’t play fair. This kid was well off, $80 was nothing. I mean, come on. Seems promising for our cause? Although (surprise, surprise) most of the 1300 or so American media-owners of the Associated Press have posted this misleading AP report. None of Hopeful’s helpful takeaways on the two guys from the ABC7 video posted below were included and nothing about the illegality of the knife except for the mention of the guilty count for not leaving the knife at home. And no mention of the fact that, like Knox, illegal drugs seem to have been the main reason for the trip. The primary judge and all of the jurists that can been seen in the videos were women. Perhaps they were beaming a message: “American drug-takers and killers, keep away.” 2021-05-08T10:58:00+00:00 So Far Utterly Passive US Reaction To Italy Sentencing Two American Cop-Killers To Life https://www.truejustice.org/ee/index.php/site/so_far_utterly_passive_us_reaction_to_italy_sentencing_two_american_cop_killers_to_life https://www.truejustice.org/ee/index.php/site/so_far_utterly_passive_us_reaction_to_italy_sentencing_two_american_cop_killers_to_life#When:23:45:00Z {summary} A 47-minute reconstruction, possible minor tilt, you decide Murder Verdict Today Opinion polls incessantly show that Italian police are widely liked and respected. Carabinieri officers especially so.   Two years ago in Rome, American Finnegan Elder stabbed the popular and unarmed Carabiniere Vice Brigadier Mario Cerciello Rega with a big knife eleven times in the back and the heart. BIG KNIFE? Shades of RS. ELEVEN TIMES? Shades of Knox.  And like Knox, Finnegan Elder had a reputation back in the US for acting pretty well insane when on drugs. This depraved murder occurred when the recently married Carabinieri officer intervened in a fracas in Rome between a drug dealer and Finnegan Elder and his pal Gabriel Natale-Hjorth . Today both were sentenced to life subject of course to Italy’s two levels of appeal. Officer Rega’s widow Rosa Maria Esilio was in court throughout. In Italy this was a very high-profile crime and the funeral, investigation and trial have been much in the news. There are numerous videos on YouTube. In the United States? Not so much. There’s been barely a peep from the Rome Embassy or State Department, and none of Amanda Knox’s opportunistic apologists seem to have resumed their xenophobic rants. Above: Finnegan Elder with crossed arms. Below: parents. 2021-05-05T23:45:00+00:00 Best of The Real-Crime Series: Strongly Recommending HBO’s “The Investigation” https://www.truejustice.org/ee/index.php/site/best_of_the_real_crime_series_strongly_recomending_hbos_the_investigation https://www.truejustice.org/ee/index.php/site/best_of_the_real_crime_series_strongly_recomending_hbos_the_investigation#When:20:27:00Z {summary} Similarity To The Perugia Case How long did Meredith’s case take to be investigated? The Knox-Sollecito conspiracy theorists would have everyone outside Italy believe the cops and prosecutors downed tools in days if not hours. In fact it continued flat-out for EIGHT MONTHS and years later evidence was still being added, for example the DNA analysis during the Nencini appeal, in large part by crack national-level experts. “The Investigation” is about the death of a very smart 30-year-old woman reporter, Kim Wall, by Peter Madsen, an industrialist, in a small submarine off Copenhagen. It is a series in six parts and has just begun airing on HBO and several streaming services. This investigation was equally exhaustive, taking over two years, and it led to a life sentence for the sex-deviant Madsen (there is a lot about his obsessive history on-line) and even finally a confession. With scant evidence of an intentional killing, it was far less open-and-shut than Meredith’s case. And yet the investigators remorselessly kept crushing the murderer’s changing alibis and explanations. Neither the murderer nor his victim ever appear on-screen. An interesting idea for a movie update on Meredith’s case.   2021-02-07T20:27:00+00:00 Being Careful & Precise About The New Standing Of The Madeleine McCann Case https://www.truejustice.org/ee/index.php/site/being_careful_precise_about_the_new_standing_of_the_madeleine_mccann_case https://www.truejustice.org/ee/index.php/site/being_careful_precise_about_the_new_standing_of_the_madeleine_mccann_case#When:21:32:00Z {summary} German Federal Police HQ Berlin; as always, click for larger image Long post. Click here to go straight to Comments. 1. Two Cases That Reverberate On Meredith’s death and Madeleine’s disappearance and probable death happened in the same year: 2007. They also have in common official investigations misrepresented with lurid conspiracy theories by seemingly xenophobic online trolls. We have proved the Italian investigation into Meredith’s murder to in fact have been extremely sound. The initial Portuguese investigation was not so good but British and now German investigators who are among the world’s best have added their considerable expertise. Prosecutor Wolters on Sky News In June 2. The Official German Claims In June, Hans Christian Wolters - the lead prosecutor (Erster Staatsanwalt) at the Braunschweig Public Prosecutor’s Office - announced to the media that he believed Madeleine McCann had been abducted and murdered by a German man who was currently in prison in Germany. This man has been identified by reliable media as Christian Brueckner; however, Germany strict privacy laws prevent the authorities and journalists from referring to his full name in the media. Any German and anyone who has lived in Germany and is familiar with the culture would have sat up and taken notice of this bombshell revelation, because they will know German prosecutors are uber cautious and would never under any circumstances make hyperbolic or rash statements to the public. They know that Hans Christian Wolters wouldn’t have said Madeleine is dead and the suspect [Christian Brueckner] killed her unless he had concrete evidence to substantiate his claim; and that’s exactly what he has explained repeatedly to the media. “We have concrete evidence that our suspect has killed Madeleine and this means she is dead.” “We have strong evidence that Madeleine McCann is dead and that our suspect killed her.” “...we have enough evidence to say our suspect killed Madeleine McCann.” 3. UK Officialdom Goes Along The significance of Hans Christian Wolters’ comments wasn’t lost on Simon Foy (above). He was the most senior murder detective at Scotland Yard and he was part of Operation Grange - which was Scotland Yard’s investigation into Madeleine McCann’s disappearance. He thought it is significant that German authorities have said Madeleine McCann is dead. “My experience of working with the German police is that they are very careful what they say publicly. They would have recognised the significance of it. They would have recognised the international sensitivity of it and they wouldhave probably recognised the public interest in it and so the fact they [the German investigators] have made that statement is of itself significant.” The German Federal Police (the BKA) have been working with the UK’s Scotland Yard and the Policia Judiciaria (PJ) - which is the national criminal investigation police agency of Portugal. DCI Mark Cranwell, who is leading the Metropolitan Police’s Operation Grange investigation into Madeleine’s disappearance, confirmed to the media in June that Christian Brueckner is a suspect. He said this was a “significant development” and they had been working on this general line of inquiry for a couple of years. Scotland Yard are officially labeling the case as a missing persons case, but in reality they’re treating the case as a murder inquiry. They know full well that in most stranger-child abductions, the child is sexually assaulted and killed. The fact that they have said Christian Breucker - a convicted paedophile and rapist with multiple convictions for sexually abusing children - is a suspect is significant. You only need to have a modicum of common sense to join the dots and read between the lines. Holger Munch (right) head of BKA 4. About The Bundeskriminalamt (BKA) Hans Christian Wolters isn’t a maverick prosecutor who has put forward his own personal theory on the case to grab a few headlines in the media. He has made it crystal clear that this is a murder case - not a missing persons case. “This is a murder case not a missing persons case. We have been quite clear throughout that we are investigating a murder and have evidence for that.” The Bundeskriminalamt (BKA) have have also explicitly stated that the crime is murder on their homepage: Delikt: Mord Tatort: Praia da Luz / Portugal Tatzeit: 03.05.2007 Crime: Murder Crime scene: Praia da Luz / Portugal Time of the crime: 03.05.2007 The BKA are the German equivalent of the American FBI or the Italian RIS Carabinieri. BKA central labs They fight terrorism, international drug-trafficking, the growth of organised crime and their forensic scientists collect DNA and forensic evidence from crime scenes. Police officers who want to join the BKA have to study at the Federal University - Departmental Branch of the Federal Criminal Police - for three years at different locations. They have to study and pass examinations in a variety of subjects e.g. law, criminal proceedings, constitutional law, criminology, police tactics, ethics and they also receive traditional police training like martial arts such as Krav Maga, Jiu Jiutsu, Judo, shooting, basic driving and crime scene investigation. The video below gives a brief history of the BKA. The Bundeskriminalamt’s Forensic Science Institute has state-of-the-art laboratories and they use the latest cutting-edge technology. Germany is one of a few countries in the world that has the technology to test LCN DNA and present it as evidence in court. The BKA’s DNA experts were part of the disaster investigations team sent to the scene of the 2004 Asian tsunami to identify victims. It’s not the first time the BKA’s forensic experts have provided assistance to authorities in other countries. They ascertained that the tanker lorry loaded with liquid gas which exploded in front of a synagogue in Djerba, Tunisia in 2002 was a coordinated attack - not an unfortunate accident. Whilst investigating a series of murders commited by the National Socialist Underground in 2012, the BKA collected, stored and analysed more than 5,500 pieces of evidence. That case highlights the professionalism of the BKA’s forensic experts and underlines just how meticulous and painstaking their work is. The PJ’s investigation into Madeleine’s disappearance was riddled with critical mistakes. They didn’t process the crime scene during the “golden hour”. The golden hour is the term used for the period immediately after an offence has been committed which gives forensic police officers the best opportunity to collect DNA and forensic evidence. They didn’t treat Madeleine’s disappearance as a crime until the next day. They ignored what the Forensic Science Service told them with regard to the DNA results being inconclusive and they allowed the apartment where the McCanns were staying to be rented out before they had finished processing the crime scene. The new BKA forensic labs (Forensic Science Institute) in Wiesbaden. The video below gives more information about the German Forensic Science Unit. 5. How The BKA Investigation Into The Case Began In 2017, Kate and Gerry McCann appealed for information about their missing daughter Madeleine on a German television programme Aktenzeichen XY…ungelost (File XY…unsolved). It led to someone contacting the BKA. This person told the BKA that he had seen a video of Christian Brueckner raping an elderly woman. The witness gave the BKA information that led to Christian Brueckner being convicted of the rape a 72-year-old American woman in Praia du Luz in 2005. There is no doubt that Christian Brueckner is guilty of raping this woman because his DNA was recovered from the crime scene. This is one of the reasons why the BKA and the German prosecutors regard the witness as being credible. The same witness claims Christian Brueckner admitted that he had abducted Madeleine. The BKA decided to investigate further because he had proven to be a credible witness and they discovered Christian Brueckner’s mobile pinged the phone mast that covers the Ocean Club shortly before Madeleine was abducted. Officers with the BKA’s Department SO25 set up a special taskforce to investigate Brueckner. They will have discovered that he has a number of convictions for sexually abusing children over a long period of time - which lends more credibility to the claim that he is responsible for Madeleine’s abduction. Some of the Anti-McCann trolls on Twitter have questioned the claim in the media that Christian Bruckner has been imprisoned for sexually abusing children - but it’s stated right there in black and white on the BKA’s website. “Furthermore, the suspect [Christian Brueckner] was sentenced on numerous occasions to prison terms for sexual abuse of children in the past.” (The BKA website). The BKA searched a deserted factory factory owned by Brueckner and they discovered USB sticks and a hard drive with over 8,000 images of abuse hidden in plastic bags and buried. Mark T Hofmann - a German criminal profiler and intelligence analyst - pointed out that this is significant because it proves that Christian Brueckner is a paedophile who obsessed with sexual abuse. BKA investigators 6. Brueckner Seemingly Incriminates Himself The BKA also discovered an online conversation about Madeleine between Christian Brueckner and another paedophile. Christian Brueckner has also fantasised about abducting and abusing a small child for days in a chatroom conversation. He allegedly said he wanted to “capture something small and use it for days” “Oh, if the evidence is destroyed afterwards…I will document exactly how they will be tortured.” “Well let’s see, not only talking but also doing it!” Profilers at the BKA describe Brueckner in their report as a psychopath who is capable of anything. He reportedly didn’t show the slightest flicker of remorse or any empathy for the six-year-old girl he sexually abused in Germany when he was a teenager. At his trial at Wuerzburg District Court, he was asked by the juvenile judge what he thought about his actions and he replied: “I didn’t think anything.” Serafim Vieira, a lawyer who represented Christian Brueckner in a separate case, believes Brueckner may have may have abducted Madeleine and had “psychopathic traits”. “I believe he could be behind the disappearance of Maddie” “I can’t say he didn’t have a psychopathic temperament - on the contrary.” Hans Christian Wolters has said they have concrete evidence against Christian Brueckner that they haven’t shared with the British or Portuguese police because it could jeopardise their investigation. He wouldn’t have said this if it wasn’t true. The German police and prosecutors are above reproach in such matters. Triangulation by phone towers in red 7. A Closer Look At The Mobile Phone Evidence In 2007 Scotland Yard’s top digital analysis expert went to Praia da Luz. He mapped out how different mobile phone masts served various parts of the Praia da Luz resort and nearby areas. This information help police to check the alibis of any suspects who used mobile phones that night. After the German Federal police, the BKA, had been given Christian Brueckner’s name in connection with Madeleine’s disappearance, they asked Scotland Yard for the mobile phone data for all the calls that were made in Praia da Luz on 3 May 2007. They had to painstakingly sift through a huge amount of data, looking for the proverbial needle in the haystack. Through this they discovered that Christian Bruecker used his phone for 30 minutes that evening close to the Ocean Club. Martin Brunt - a reporter for Sky News who has covered the case from the beginning - was one of the first journalists to reveal this information. “It is thought he [Christian Brueckner] was close to the apartment where she [Madeleine] was sleeping.” This corroborates the claim of the credible witness who said that Christian Brueckner was responsible for Madeleine’s abduction - it certainly doesn’t contradict it. If Christian Brueckner’s mobile phone had pinged a phone mast in Germany or in another part of Portugal, he could have been eliminated as a suspect there and then. Of course, the mobile phone evidence alone isn’t enough proof that Christian Brueckner abducted and killed Madeleine But as in Meredith’s case (as the Supreme Court ruled in annulling the Hellman outcome in 2012) all the pieces of evidence have to be considered wholly - not separately and in isolation from the other pieces of evidence. This is a point that the prosecutor in the news Hans Christian Wolters made. “All I can say is this is like a puzzle and there are many pieces that lead us to believe Christian B is responsible.” Mobile phone evidence can narrow down someone’s location to a very small area: In a UK case Jessica Chapman’s mobile phone was just outside or inside Ian Huntley’s home in Soham on the day she and Holly Wells disappeared In Meredith’s case Amanda Knox’s mobile phone was in a small area of Perugia where she was on her way to work at 8:18pm on the night of the murder. She was definitely not at Sollecito’s apartment as she claimed. One of the more damning pieces of evidence in the case. Hans Christian Wolters clearly believes the mobile phone evidence places Christian Bruecker in the close vicinity of the Ocean Club shortly before Madeleine was abducted. “One of the pieces [of evidence] is the signal from the mobile phone he was using at the time Madeleine McCann disappeared and has been shown to have been in the area of the Ocean Club resort where she was staying.” Liz Hayes Australian reporter Liz Hayes pressed him on this matter: Liz Hayes: “So what you’re saying to me is that you can place Christian Brueckner at the scene [the Ocean Club]?” Hans Christian Wolters: “Yes, we think so.” According to Liz Hayes, Christian Brueckner’s mobile phone was used just outside the Ocean Club That phone call was triangulated. 8. Finally, What Could The Concrete Evidence Be? Journalists Liz Hayes (60 Minutes Australia) and Sandra Felgueiras (Sexta As 9) both seem to think the BKA found photographs or a video of Madeleine on one of Christian Brueckner’s USB sticks or hard drives. If this is true, it’s damning evidence against CB. It would certainly explain why Hans Christian Wolters and the BKA are absolutely adamanat that Christian Brueckner killed Madeleine. Hans Christian Wolters has repeatedly refused to answer the question when he was asked whether they had found any photographs or videos of Madeleine. “At the moment, I am not allowed to comment on that, so I am not able to say if there are pictures or there are no pictures of Madeleine.” (Hans Christian Wolters, Inside the secret lair of prime suspect in Madeleine McCann’s disappearance | 60 Minutes Australia).   He has previously been candid that they don’t have a body or any forensic evidence, so why wouldn’t he just be candid if they haven’t found any photographs or videos of Madeleine? In June, Hans Christian Wolters said they believe they had almost a complete set of evidence. “We think we have 90 per cent evidence.” And in that recent interview with Sandra Felgueiras, he claimed that they have more evidence. Obviously, more to come. 2020-10-22T21:32:00+00:00 Hanover-Area Search: Possible Major Advance In Germany’s McCann-Brueckner Investigation https://www.truejustice.org/ee/index.php/site/hanover_area_search_possible_major_advance_in_germanys_mccann_brueckner_investigation https://www.truejustice.org/ee/index.php/site/hanover_area_search_possible_major_advance_in_germanys_mccann_brueckner_investigation#When:14:59:00Z {summary} More breaking-news reports here and here. Judging from the scale of the operation - 100 police officers, including forensic police, sniffer dogs and observation technology - it seems the German prosecutors are acting on specific information and are looking for Madeleine’s remains. Julia Meyer from the prosecutor’s office in Braunschweig confirmed the search is being carried out in connection with the BKA’s investigation into the Madeleine McCann case: “I can confirm that the search is being carried out in connection with our investigations into the Maddie case.” 2020-07-29T14:59:00+00:00 Madeleine McCann Case: Three-Way Warring Justice Systems https://www.truejustice.org/ee/index.php/site/an_unusual_three_way_example_of_warring_justice_systems https://www.truejustice.org/ee/index.php/site/an_unusual_three_way_example_of_warring_justice_systems#When:17:34:00Z {summary} Germany v. Portugal v. United Kingdom?! This three-way example of warring justice systems, none of them being Italian, has suddenly flashed into the news. Germany seems to be on to something but its handling of the Portugal and UK ends of things does seem a tad peculiar. They say they have proof of Madeleine’s death and wrote to the parents - who were saying they never got any letter. WTF?!   In contrast, Italy is respected for its exceptional international co-operation on justice matters Click for Post:  FBI Reporting Close Co-operation With Italy In Arresting And Soon Extraditing A Fugitive Swindler Click for Post:  Italy’s Anti-Mafia Winning Push In Co-operation With FBI Is Headed By Arturo De Felice, Who Was We have no three-way examples involving Italy - just these two bilateral examples: (1) the fugitive CIA operator/mullah-kidnapper; and (2) the crew of the Italian tanker that fired on some Indian fishermen. In each case Italy gave way pretty gracefully. 2020-06-18T17:34:00+00:00 Good Balanced Debate On A Controversial Case, No Too-Frequent Victim Stance For Accused https://www.truejustice.org/ee/index.php/site/good_balanced_debate_on_a_controversial_case https://www.truejustice.org/ee/index.php/site/good_balanced_debate_on_a_controversial_case#When:06:56:00Z {summary} Above, the trailer for the crime debate program discussed here I have previously written a post about the Adnan Syed/Hae Min Lee case and Sarah Koenig’s biased and one-sided Serial podcasts. She presented the case primarily from the defence’s perspecitve. She didn’t interview the prosecutor or any of the police officers involved in this case, but instead relied heavily on Adnan Syed as well as relying on his chief advocate in the media Rabia Chaudry and Asia McClain, who claims she is an alibi witness. To be fair to Sarah Koenig she also interviewed Jay Wilds who was the key witness for the prosecution. However, her bias towards Adnan Syed is clearly evident in the number of people she spoke to who think he is innocent compared to those who think he is guilty. In the post, I also expressed the hope that the mainstream media would provide balanced and factually accurate reports on the case - which is something they didn’t do when covering the Meredith Kercher case. Predictably, most of the media coverage of the case hasn’t been balanced. The narrative of an innocent person being convicted of a crime they didn’t commit is more sensational and melodramatic than that of someone being rightfully convicted and American public relations takes advantage of this to the hilt. . Rabia Chaudry has written a number of advocacy pieces in the media for The Guardian and Time (both of which were also riddled with Knox PR shills) in which she presents the defence’s claims as if they are established facts. She brushes any inconvenient facts under the carpet. For example that an FBI expert claims the mobile phone evidence that places Adnan Syed in Leakin Park on the day Hae Min Lee disappeared is reliable. Rabia Chaudry is also one of the contributors to the Undisclosed podcasts which are even more biased and one-sided than Serial - which is no mean feat. Adnan Syed’s supporters unquestiongly believe whatever Rabia Chaudry, Susan Simpson or Colin Miller tell them. Incidentally, Susan Simpson believes Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito are innocent and the DNA evidece was “staged”. She also resorts to ridiculous conspiracy theories in the Adnan Syed/Hae Min Lee case by claiming the police coached Jay Wilds by tapping. So it was refreshing to see no-nonsense former prosecutor Nancy Grace discussing the Adnan Syed/Hae Mine Lee case with legal commentator Dan Abrams on the new series GRACE v ABRAMS in a programme that allowed both sides to present their opinions and let the audience make up their own minds. Sarah Koenig, The Guardian and Time please take note. It should go without saying there are two sides to every story and your job to inform the public about the facts of murder cases - not persuade people that convicted killers are innocent. The legal followups, News media & movies, Excellent reporting, Media developments, 2018-05-02T06:56:00+00:00 Another Of Many “They Really DID Do It” Cases Where Suspicions Only Grow https://www.truejustice.org/ee/index.php/site/another_of_many_they_really_did_do_it_cases https://www.truejustice.org/ee/index.php/site/another_of_many_they_really_did_do_it_cases#When:00:27:00Z {summary}Several dozen new videos like these have gone online in this year alone. The legal followups, The wider contexts, N America context, 2018-02-06T00:27:00+00:00