If he’s innocent, he shouldn’t be executed.
Duckett was convicted of the murder in Lake County, which is east of Orlando, but he is also suspected in two other murders in Lakeland, Polk County, about ten miles from where I lived until the end of February.
All the evidence against him is circumstantial though there appears to be 3 circumstances and 3 testimonies of other young women that put together paint a pretty ugly picture.
There were tire tracks near the body drop that matched the police cruiser and those tires were somewhat unique. They were given to the cops by a tire shop because snow/mud tires had been accidentally delivered and the shop figured they would not sell in Florida.
There were hand and palm prints from the victim in a pattern that indicated she was sitting forward on the hood of the police cruiser but nobody saw her in this position prior to the cop “sending her home” and there were witnesses for the entire interaction before she got into his cruiser. There also is a 1 hour communication gap in his patrol which was apparently not customary, and three women indicated he had picked them up in his patrol car and attempted to engage them in sexual activity, one of them assenting.
Less convincing to me was a hair comparison was made between the cop and evidence on the victim. The FBI said it was a likely match but their word should always be suspect. The comparison technique is no longer used though I don’t know if it was inaccurate or if modern dna tests rendered it moot.