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Post by Breka on Nov 14, 2011 8:42:02 GMT -6
These appeals at that stadium does not have anything to do - to protect an individual from justice errors - this is just law bashing and making money on tax- payers expenses -
Isn't that case clear ? didn't he comit the murder ? Whats the fuzz about ?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 14, 2011 11:22:13 GMT -6
That is horse sheet! He wasn't poor, he was well-doing aluminium contractor, and he commited one of the most heinious crimes of last 30 years. Let him rott! And not to mention he was a long time criminal with a remarkable record for various violent felonies. Let him rot in hell forever! Agreed, Agreed and Agreed. If they grant him another appeal I'll be so mad!
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Post by SubSurfCPO(ret) on Nov 14, 2011 14:34:29 GMT -6
Florida set to execute Oba Chandler for deaths of mother, daughterswww.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/crime/fl-oba-chandler-execution-20111114,0,5308601,full.story For the seasoned detectives who investigated the murders of Joan Rogers and her teenage daughters Christe and Michelle in 1989, the case had a profound effect on the rest of their lives. Cindra Leedy never crosses the bridges spanning Tampa Bay without thinking of the family and how their lives ended in a watery grave. Glen Moore recalls investigating the toughest case of his life, one that tested his patience and his nerves. JJ Geoghegan is haunted by the possibility that Oba Chandler, the man convicted of killing the trio, could have slain others and will be executed Tuesday without ever facing justice for unsolved slayings. "He's finally going to pay the ultimate price," said Geoghegan, a retired investigator. "I have no pity on him. It's been 18 years since he was convicted, and I've been waiting for this. If they would let me, I'd sit in on the execution." Chandler is scheduled to die by lethal injection at the Florida State Prison on Tuesday afternoon. The 65-year-old has sat on death row for 17 years following his 1994 triple homicide conviction. Rogers, 36, and her 14 and 17-year-old daughters were from the small farming community of Wilshire, Ohio. They were in Florida on their first vacation — a dream vacation — and were on their way home from Disney World when they met Chandler. "He was a real charmer," said Geoghegan, who was a St. Petersburg Police detective at the time. "Back then, he was a good looking man and a slick talker. He was a Ted Bundy, is what he was." Geoghegan was referring to one of the most notorious serial killers in U.S history, who may have murdered 30 or more women in several states before Florida executed him in 1989. On June 1, 1989, Rogers and her daughters were in the Tampa area and stopped to ask Chandler for directions to their motel. The three disappeared that evening. Three days later, the Rogers' bodies were found in Tampa Bay. They were stripped from the waist down, bound with duct tape and yellow rope. Concrete blocks were tied to ropes around their necks. Yet the bodies floated to the surface. The case was a mystery from the beginning: It took police a week to identify the bodies and by then, Rogers' husband (and the girls' father), who had stayed behind in Ohio, had reported them missing. The motel manager where the Rogers family had been staying contacted police after maids noticed no one had been in the room for a week. Authorities then found Rogers' car abandoned beside a boat ramp on a causeway that connects Tampa and Pinellas County. It was in Rogers' car that police found the crucial piece of evidence — but investigators didn't know that until years later. By 1990, the case had turned cold. No arrests, no suspects. Then-Detective Moore of the St. Petersburg Police Department was transferred to the homicide squad as one of two supervisors. "I began to ask questions about the Rogers case," he said. "(Others in the department) really thought there was nothing else to do. I just couldn't believe there was nothing left to do. I asked if I could review it with six people that I hand-picked that were not from within the homicide squad." The six investigators — coming from local, regional and state agencies — spent two weeks looking at every piece of evidence. Moore said they would sit at a big table, open the evidence boxes, and pass each piece of paper, each item, around the table. One of those items was a seemingly innocuous brochure that had been found in Rogers' car. It was the kind of brochure that Florida tourists pick up at rest stops: it touted the beauty of Clearwater Beach and had a map. There was writing on the brochure, the detectives noted. "As it turned out, that little piece of paper that had some scribbling on it turned out to be extremely important in the whole investigation," Moore said. The brochure had never been checked for fingerprints. The team sent it off for processing and discovered a partial palm print that didn't belong to Rogers or her daughters. As months wore on, Moore was under pressure to make an arrest or add the murders, once again, to the cold case file. Someone then suggested an unusual idea: ask the public for help. "We might as well go for broke," Moore said he thought at the time. The detectives put the handwriting on a billboard to see if anyone recognized it. In particular, the murderer's "R's" and "Y's" had a distinctive look. "WHO KILLED THE ROGERS FAMILY?" the billboard read. One of Chandler's neighbors recognized the writing and called authorities; Chandler, who owned an aluminum company, had done work for the neighbor and had written a contract with her. Another of Chandler's former neighbors and a secretary at the police department also noticed that Chandler looked suspiciously similar to a composite sketch of a suspect wanted in a rape — an unsolved assault of a Canadian woman aboard a boat in Tampa Bay. Chandler was arrested — he and his family were living across the state in Daytona Beach, having just moved from Tampa. At trial, prosecutors used details of the unrelated rape for which he was never tried. That woman testified Chandler took her by boat to see the sunset out on the bay and raped her. She believed the reason she wasn't killed was because a friend was waiting for her at the dock. Based on the similarities of the cases, prosecutors hypothesized that Rogers and her daughters were lured onto his boat with the promise of seeing the sunset and were then sexually assaulted before being murdered. Chandler took the stand at trial and admitted to giving Rogers directions but denied that he had anything to do with the crime. Geoghegan said that at trial, it seemed like Chandler was trying to persuade the jury to acquit him. "He was still cocky enough that he thought he would smooth-talk the jury," Geoghegan said. Chandler said he was fishing on Tampa Bay in his boat on the evening the women disappeared and that he called the Coast Guard for help with engine trouble. There was no evidence of distress calls from Chandler. The jury convicted him and sent him to death. After the verdict was read, a juror told the local media: "They need to do this swiftly. The man is a mutation of a human being and he needs to be destroyed." On Oct. 11, Gov. Rick Scott signed Chandler's death warrant. It is unlikely that Tuesday's execution of Oba Chandler will be postponed, because the Florida Supreme Court has affirmed a lower court decision to go ahead with the lethal injection.The detectives who worked the case have retired from their investigative jobs. They all still carry memories of the case and with the approaching execution date, have been thinking of the murders of the young mother and her two daughters more than ever. "A family, a whole family, just wiped out, by a monster," said Leedy, a retired St. Petersburg detective who now works as a county bailiff. "I think about them at Christmastime and at their birthdays. I wonder what they would have become."
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Post by Rev. Agave on Nov 14, 2011 14:35:32 GMT -6
He should plump nicely!
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Post by SubSurfCPO(ret) on Nov 14, 2011 14:38:57 GMT -6
I will be in Starke on unrelated business tomorrow, but will not have the chance to drop by. Oh darn, it would be worth the drive-by just to see if there are any supporters.
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Post by gillypod on Nov 14, 2011 14:58:35 GMT -6
There most definitely will be. You can see the plackards now.......NOT IN MY NAME.
You would think they would come up with something by now
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Post by Rev. Agave on Nov 14, 2011 15:04:31 GMT -6
I will be in Starke on unrelated business tomorrow, but will not have the chance to drop by. Oh darn, it would be worth the drive-by just to see if there are any supporters. I'd check it out if it's not too far out of your way. Azvet here did that and he got interviewed by the news.
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Post by unkelremus on Nov 15, 2011 17:17:12 GMT -6
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Post by Rev. Agave on Nov 15, 2011 18:04:16 GMT -6
NEXT!!
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Post by Californian on Nov 15, 2011 20:03:14 GMT -6
Hasta la vista, creep.
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Post by SubSurfCPO(ret) on Nov 16, 2011 8:14:16 GMT -6
Chandler executed for 1989 triple murderswww.gainesville.com/article/20111115/ARTICLES/111119720?tc=crRAIFORD -- RAIFORD — Oba Chandler was executed by lethal execution Tuesday, his fate seemingly in stark contrast with how he ended the lives of an Ohio woman and her two teenage daughters more than 22 years ago. Chandler, 65, was pronounced dead at 4:25 p.m. in the death chamber at Florida State Prison after a lethal dose of drugs was sent through his veins. In the summer of 1989, Joan “Jo” Rogers, 36, and her daughters, Michelle, 17, and Christe, 14, were visiting Florida for their first family vacation. On June 1, prosecutors said, they met Chandler, who invited them onto his boat for a cruise around Tampa Bay. Three days later, their half-nude bodies were found in the water. They had been tied with rope and weighted down with concrete blocks. They had apparently been sexually assaulted before they were thrown overboard still alive. On Tuesday, at 4:08 p.m. at Florida State Prison, a prison official asked, “Inmate Chandler, do you have any last statement that you would like to make?”
“No,” Chandler said, uttering his last word.
Later, reporters were given copies of a handwritten note he had apparently drafted earlier in the day.
“You are killing a innocent man today,” read the note, which was signed.Years earlier, it was Chandler’s handwriting that helped lead to his arrest — more than three years after the murders.Investigators made the decision to put up billboards in Tampa with a sampling of the suspect’s handwriting, which was taken from directions to the boat they found in the Rogers’ car. A woman noticed the writing matched that of Oba Chandler, her former neighbor and an aluminum contractor she was already suspicious of, and called police. Chandler was arrested on Sept. 24, 1992, and convicted on Nov. 4, 1994. In the 17 years he was in the prison system, he never got a visit from a friend or family member, said Gretl Plessinger, a spokeswoman for the Department of Corrections. Still, the family did claim his body and will receive it later this week following a routine autopsy. A woman who said she was Chandler’s biological daughter showed up at the media staging area across from the prison on Tuesday. The 40-year-old woman, Suzette, who said she was born Suzette Chandler in Ohio but declined to give her current last name or where she lived, said from what she had read of the case and told about her father, she considered him a “very sick, evil human being.” She said he tried to contact her shortly after the murders in 1989, a few years after she had reached out to him after learning that he was her father. Chandler’s only supporter in the witness room was his attorney through the appeals process, Baya Harrison III. For his last meal, served around 11 a.m., Chandler ate two salami and mustard sandwiches on white bread and half of a peanut butter and grape jelly sandwich, Plessinger said. He asked for unsweetened iced tea but did not drink it. Instead he had coffee. The execution was scheduled to begin at 4 p.m. but it was delayed about seven minutes as officials struggled to find veins suitable for the intravenous needles, Plessinger said. Chandler took diazepam to reduce anxiety before his final moments. Chandler closed his eyes at 4:09 as the first of three drugs — to render him unconscious — was administered and his mouth opened slightly at 4:10, his face remaining that way until he was pronounced dead 15 minutes later. Hal Rogers, Jo Rogers’ husband and the girls’ father, ran a dairy farm with his wife in Wilshire, Ohio, and needed to stay home to tend to the cows when the women of the house set out south on Interstate 75 for the Sunshine State in May 1989. The St. Petersburg Times reported last month that he has since remarried to a widow named Jolene and now raises hogs and grows corn. At that time, he wasn’t sure whether he would attend Chandler’s execution. “I miss them all,” he told the newspaper. “That makes it rough on Jolene. How do you fight a dead person? But her first husband died too. She understands.” On Tuesday, Rogers was there wearing a coat and tie, sitting in the middle of the front row in the witness room. He did not speak with reporters afterward. Amanda “Mandi” Scarlett, Joan Rogers’ niece, sat next to him during the execution and later read a statement at a news conference. “The family of Jo, Michelle and Chris are very appreciative of everyone that has brought us to this day,” Scarlett said. “The journey has been difficult for all of us involved. We have always been grateful to those who brought us to this place, and we were grateful that they were brought back home to us. Now is the time for peace.”
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Post by SubSurfCPO(ret) on Nov 16, 2011 8:18:25 GMT -6
On Tuesday, at 4:08 p.m. at Florida State Prison, a prison official asked, “Inmate Chandler, do you have any last statement that you would like to make?”
“No,” Chandler said, uttering his last word.
Later, reporters were given copies of a handwritten note he had apparently drafted earlier in the day.
“You are killing a innocent man today,” read the note, which was signed.Years earlier, it was Chandler’s handwriting that helped lead to his arrest — more than three years after the murders. So, he gives a handwritten note expressing his innocence and it was a handwritten note that led the investigators to him in the first place. This symbolic attempt really never got the attention he wanted. Which is good, even his biological daughter was in the pro-camp. Literally, she was there on the support side. The have the supporter and opponent sides identified at Raiford.
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Post by Matt on Nov 16, 2011 9:35:35 GMT -6
22 years too late.
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Post by wrench on Nov 16, 2011 10:05:01 GMT -6
another of the "i'm an innocent man" found guilty by his own hand.
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Post by zd3925 on Nov 16, 2011 14:06:48 GMT -6
Adios dirtbag
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Post by Deleted on Nov 17, 2011 2:14:39 GMT -6
Chandler executed for 1989 triple murderswww.gainesville.com/article/20111115/ARTICLES/111119720?tc=crRAIFORD -- RAIFORD — Oba Chandler was executed by lethal execution Tuesday, his fate seemingly in stark contrast with how he ended the lives of an Ohio woman and her two teenage daughters more than 22 years ago. Chandler, 65, was pronounced dead at 4:25 p.m. in the death chamber at Florida State Prison after a lethal dose of drugs was sent through his veins. In the summer of 1989, Joan “Jo” Rogers, 36, and her daughters, Michelle, 17, and Christe, 14, were visiting Florida for their first family vacation. On June 1, prosecutors said, they met Chandler, who invited them onto his boat for a cruise around Tampa Bay. Three days later, their half-nude bodies were found in the water. They had been tied with rope and weighted down with concrete blocks. They had apparently been sexually assaulted before they were thrown overboard still alive. On Tuesday, at 4:08 p.m. at Florida State Prison, a prison official asked, “Inmate Chandler, do you have any last statement that you would like to make?”
“No,” Chandler said, uttering his last word.
Later, reporters were given copies of a handwritten note he had apparently drafted earlier in the day.
“You are killing a innocent man today,” read the note, which was signed.Years earlier, it was Chandler’s handwriting that helped lead to his arrest — more than three years after the murders.Investigators made the decision to put up billboards in Tampa with a sampling of the suspect’s handwriting, which was taken from directions to the boat they found in the Rogers’ car. A woman noticed the writing matched that of Oba Chandler, her former neighbor and an aluminum contractor she was already suspicious of, and called police. Chandler was arrested on Sept. 24, 1992, and convicted on Nov. 4, 1994. In the 17 years he was in the prison system, he never got a visit from a friend or family member, said Gretl Plessinger, a spokeswoman for the Department of Corrections. Still, the family did claim his body and will receive it later this week following a routine autopsy. A woman who said she was Chandler’s biological daughter showed up at the media staging area across from the prison on Tuesday. The 40-year-old woman, Suzette, who said she was born Suzette Chandler in Ohio but declined to give her current last name or where she lived, said from what she had read of the case and told about her father, she considered him a “very sick, evil human being.” She said he tried to contact her shortly after the murders in 1989, a few years after she had reached out to him after learning that he was her father. Chandler’s only supporter in the witness room was his attorney through the appeals process, Baya Harrison III. For his last meal, served around 11 a.m., Chandler ate two salami and mustard sandwiches on white bread and half of a peanut butter and grape jelly sandwich, Plessinger said. He asked for unsweetened iced tea but did not drink it. Instead he had coffee. The execution was scheduled to begin at 4 p.m. but it was delayed about seven minutes as officials struggled to find veins suitable for the intravenous needles, Plessinger said. Chandler took diazepam to reduce anxiety before his final moments. Chandler closed his eyes at 4:09 as the first of three drugs — to render him unconscious — was administered and his mouth opened slightly at 4:10, his face remaining that way until he was pronounced dead 15 minutes later. Hal Rogers, Jo Rogers’ husband and the girls’ father, ran a dairy farm with his wife in Wilshire, Ohio, and needed to stay home to tend to the cows when the women of the house set out south on Interstate 75 for the Sunshine State in May 1989. The St. Petersburg Times reported last month that he has since remarried to a widow named Jolene and now raises hogs and grows corn. At that time, he wasn’t sure whether he would attend Chandler’s execution. “I miss them all,” he told the newspaper. “That makes it rough on Jolene. How do you fight a dead person? But her first husband died too. She understands.” On Tuesday, Rogers was there wearing a coat and tie, sitting in the middle of the front row in the witness room. He did not speak with reporters afterward. Amanda “Mandi” Scarlett, Joan Rogers’ niece, sat next to him during the execution and later read a statement at a news conference. “The family of Jo, Michelle and Chris are very appreciative of everyone that has brought us to this day,” Scarlett said. “The journey has been difficult for all of us involved. We have always been grateful to those who brought us to this place, and we were grateful that they were brought back home to us. Now is the time for peace.” De DA DA de de DA DA ;D
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Post by moonlight on Nov 19, 2011 6:16:33 GMT -6
I want to add my satisfaction for the conduct of justice and law enforcement.
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Post by Potassium_Pixie on Nov 20, 2011 13:06:32 GMT -6
You know you are a veyr horrid person if your own biological daughter wants to see you roast.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 22, 2011 1:11:23 GMT -6
Chandler executed for 1989 triple murderswww.gainesville.com/article/20111115/ARTICLES/111119720?tc=crRAIFORD -- RAIFORD — Oba Chandler was executed by lethal execution Tuesday, his fate seemingly in stark contrast with how he ended the lives of an Ohio woman and her two teenage daughters more than 22 years ago. Chandler, 65, was pronounced dead at 4:25 p.m. in the death chamber at Florida State Prison after a lethal dose of drugs was sent through his veins. In the summer of 1989, Joan “Jo” Rogers, 36, and her daughters, Michelle, 17, and Christe, 14, were visiting Florida for their first family vacation. On June 1, prosecutors said, they met Chandler, who invited them onto his boat for a cruise around Tampa Bay. Three days later, their half-nude bodies were found in the water. They had been tied with rope and weighted down with concrete blocks. They had apparently been sexually assaulted before they were thrown overboard still alive. On Tuesday, at 4:08 p.m. at Florida State Prison, a prison official asked, “Inmate Chandler, do you have any last statement that you would like to make?”
“No,” Chandler said, uttering his last word.
Later, reporters were given copies of a handwritten note he had apparently drafted earlier in the day.
“You are killing a innocent man today,” read the note, which was signed.Years earlier, it was Chandler’s handwriting that helped lead to his arrest — more than three years after the murders.Investigators made the decision to put up billboards in Tampa with a sampling of the suspect’s handwriting, which was taken from directions to the boat they found in the Rogers’ car. A woman noticed the writing matched that of Oba Chandler, her former neighbor and an aluminum contractor she was already suspicious of, and called police. Chandler was arrested on Sept. 24, 1992, and convicted on Nov. 4, 1994. In the 17 years he was in the prison system, he never got a visit from a friend or family member, said Gretl Plessinger, a spokeswoman for the Department of Corrections. Still, the family did claim his body and will receive it later this week following a routine autopsy. A woman who said she was Chandler’s biological daughter showed up at the media staging area across from the prison on Tuesday. The 40-year-old woman, Suzette, who said she was born Suzette Chandler in Ohio but declined to give her current last name or where she lived, said from what she had read of the case and told about her father, she considered him a “very sick, evil human being.” She said he tried to contact her shortly after the murders in 1989, a few years after she had reached out to him after learning that he was her father. Chandler’s only supporter in the witness room was his attorney through the appeals process, Baya Harrison III. For his last meal, served around 11 a.m., Chandler ate two salami and mustard sandwiches on white bread and half of a peanut butter and grape jelly sandwich, Plessinger said. He asked for unsweetened iced tea but did not drink it. Instead he had coffee. The execution was scheduled to begin at 4 p.m. but it was delayed about seven minutes as officials struggled to find veins suitable for the intravenous needles, Plessinger said. Chandler took diazepam to reduce anxiety before his final moments. Chandler closed his eyes at 4:09 as the first of three drugs — to render him unconscious — was administered and his mouth opened slightly at 4:10, his face remaining that way until he was pronounced dead 15 minutes later. Hal Rogers, Jo Rogers’ husband and the girls’ father, ran a dairy farm with his wife in Wilshire, Ohio, and needed to stay home to tend to the cows when the women of the house set out south on Interstate 75 for the Sunshine State in May 1989. The St. Petersburg Times reported last month that he has since remarried to a widow named Jolene and now raises hogs and grows corn. At that time, he wasn’t sure whether he would attend Chandler’s execution. “I miss them all,” he told the newspaper. “That makes it rough on Jolene. How do you fight a dead person? But her first husband died too. She understands.” On Tuesday, Rogers was there wearing a coat and tie, sitting in the middle of the front row in the witness room. He did not speak with reporters afterward. Amanda “Mandi” Scarlett, Joan Rogers’ niece, sat next to him during the execution and later read a statement at a news conference. “The family of Jo, Michelle and Chris are very appreciative of everyone that has brought us to this day,” Scarlett said. “The journey has been difficult for all of us involved. We have always been grateful to those who brought us to this place, and we were grateful that they were brought back home to us. Now is the time for peace.” De DA DA de de DA DA ;D Not the friggin Coles add....
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Post by kingsindanger on Jan 17, 2012 19:43:32 GMT -6
I read about this case in the book "Death Cruise" by Don Davis. So glad this creep was juiced - even though I am about 2 months late on this one.
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Post by DeadElvis on Jan 17, 2012 20:22:04 GMT -6
Ok, I read all the above posts and I must have missed something. Was there anything that tied him to.the.crime besides this:
* his handwriting was similar to writing on a tourist brochure owned by the victims
* he matched a police sketch for the perp of a seperate rape and the victim id'ed him
* he may have lied about calling the coast guard about engine trouble on the night of the murders
What am I missing? Seems a bit weak for dp. Just based on these factors only, one would have to jump to a lot of conclusions.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 17, 2012 22:36:27 GMT -6
Ok, I read all the above posts and I must have missed something. Was there anything that tied him to.the.crime besides this: * his handwriting was similar to writing on a tourist brochure owned by the victims * he matched a police sketch for the perp of a seperate rape and the victim id'ed him * he may have lied about calling the coast guard about engine trouble on the night of the murders What am I missing? Seems a bit weak for dp. Just based on these factors only, one would have to jump to a lot of conclusions. I think someone who murders 3 people deserves the death penalty. If you are arguing the validity of the conviction you are arguing he shouldn't be punished AT ALL for the crime
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Post by Moonbeam on Jan 18, 2012 1:31:11 GMT -6
He's just asking what the evidence was. What he listed is pretty much circumstantial.
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Post by DeadElvis on Jan 18, 2012 6:32:48 GMT -6
Ok, I read all the above posts and I must have missed something. Was there anything that tied him to.the.crime besides this: * his handwriting was similar to writing on a tourist brochure owned by the victims * he matched a police sketch for the perp of a seperate rape and the victim id'ed him * he may have lied about calling the coast guard about engine trouble on the night of the murders What am I missing? Seems a bit weak for dp. Just based on these factors only, one would have to jump to a lot of conclusions. I think someone who murders 3 people deserves the death penalty. If you are arguing the validity of the conviction you are arguing he shouldn't be punished AT ALL for the crime Not making an argument at all. Just asking a question. If you don't know the answer, feel free to not reply.
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Post by kingsindanger on Jan 19, 2012 22:05:55 GMT -6
Ok, I read all the above posts and I must have missed something. Was there anything that tied him to.the.crime besides this: * his handwriting was similar to writing on a tourist brochure owned by the victims * he matched a police sketch for the perp of a seperate rape and the victim id'ed him * he may have lied about calling the coast guard about engine trouble on the night of the murders What am I missing? Seems a bit weak for dp. Just based on these factors only, one would have to jump to a lot of conclusions. His palm print and handwriting was on the brochure that was found in the victim’s car, which proves he was in contact. A description matching his boat was also found on the brochure. A witness testified at trial that he bragged about dating three women on the bay. The state then ripped his story to pieces. There is no ‘may have lied’ about it. There was no record of his calls to the Coast Guard and there were no Coast Guard vessels on the bay the next day. A mechanic testified that his boat would have exploded if he fixed the gas leak in the manner he described. His story was reduced to “I don’t remember”. Finally, his own daughter testified against him that he talked about killing the three women.
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Post by DeadElvis on Jan 20, 2012 6:47:44 GMT -6
Ok, I read all the above posts and I must have missed something. Was there anything that tied him to.the.crime besides this: * his handwriting was similar to writing on a tourist brochure owned by the victims * he matched a police sketch for the perp of a seperate rape and the victim id'ed him * he may have lied about calling the coast guard about engine trouble on the night of the murders What am I missing? Seems a bit weak for dp. Just based on these factors only, one would have to jump to a lot of conclusions. His palm print and handwriting was on the brochure that was found in the victim’s car, which proves he was in contact. A description matching his boat was also found on the brochure. A witness testified at trial that he bragged about dating three women on the bay. The state then ripped his story to pieces. There is no ‘may have lied’ about it. There was no record of his calls to the Coast Guard and there were no Coast Guard vessels on the bay the next day. A mechanic testified that his boat would have exploded if he fixed the gas leak in the manner he described. His story was reduced to “I don’t remember”. Finally, his own daughter testified against him that he talked about killing the three women. Thanks, that's what I was looking for. I figured there was more to it than the article described.
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Post by kingsindanger on Jan 20, 2012 23:05:19 GMT -6
Anytime...
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Post by nate on Jan 26, 2012 4:05:50 GMT -6
I saw another case on Crime TV,same name-Oba Chandler except he 'only' killed his wife and buried her in the cellar and when the search finally turned up the body the guy asked if he could finnish the meal he was eating!
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