Turboman wrote:Photek wrote:The car key found after the 7th search is so blatantly planted that he should get a mis-trial, not only was the key miraculously not noticed but only avery's dna was on it, not the victims, despite her driving the car with that key for several years, blates was wiped clean and added averys blood, which in turn means they added his blood to the car. The needle hole in the blood sample was strawberry floating mental.
I recently finished Listening to Serial, a similar podcast in which dodgy evidence is used to convict a guy...thing is, I actually think he did it, like blatantly did it.
When you first take the blood it gets in the tube using a needle. The hole doesn't seem to me to be that big an issue.
There is blood in an unnatural place at the lid of the bottle though, so I still think evidence it was tampered with
I thought they made the point that they wouldn't ever use a needle on a tube?
I only finished watching this last night and I am not sure what to think. The documentary was obviously only showing one side of things, it's important to realise that they were not showing the cops/states point of view but the Avery side of things.
With that said though, the conviction of Brandon at least looks very dodgy. The DA saying things like "innocent people don't confess" is utter bollocks when you are dealing with a "normal" person, let alone a slow kid like him.
With Steven, I am not sure. It doesn't make any sense that he would rape and stab somebody in his bedroom, move her to the garage to shoot her, put her back in the boot of her own vehicle and then burn her just behind his bedroom. The state utterly failed to provide a proper narrative of what actually happened (assuming Steven killed her).
The state wants people to believe that Steven and Brandon (both slow individuals) cleaned up a crime scene so well that there was no evidence to be found at all, but then just left the vehicle in the yard, the bones in the fire pit and a bit of blood in the vehicle? Utter bullshit.
It's possible that they killed her but it certainly wasn't done in the bedroom/garage if they did. More likely (again assuming Steven guilty) he killed her elsewhere and then brought her back to burn the body. There is a massive amount of reasonable doubt there though.
Even if we accept the blood in the vehicle and the bones in the fire pit, the key was still an obvious plant. And that alone make the conviction unsafe (imo) and a new trial should be held.