I'm inclined to disagree, to wit:
ritual killing, not the sort of thing a "career criminal" bothers with;
very screwy behavior on the part of the bartender, son of the owner; rich, politically connected family who, a)wasn't stupid or unprofessional enough to be fooled by Littlejohn's failure to disclose -- any idiot can find that information out; b)had a brush with a murdered patron before and bailed out the accused who was later convicted;
the suspect is just too obvious a patsy; evidence is circumstantial at the moment;
he's involved, apparently, but I think he did some dirty work for the bartender. He's your man. He appeared to be buying time for Littlejohn at first, now is letting him twist in the wind.
Now, even if he is guilty, I don't think a jury will convict him just because of what I cited, especially the obstruction of the investigation by the bartender.
Separately, has anyone said, "Gee, it's not a good idea to go barhopping by yourself all night long in New York City," or is the world supposed to pretend that the odds of this sort of tragedy don't increase exponentially when one does so?
I've been following this case from my perch in Las Vegas and I've had a bad feeling about it from the get-go.
While sometimes the obviously guilty person is in fact guilty, this whole situation just doesn't seem right at all. I know the guy has a rap sheet, but does anyone know if rape and brutal violence is present in his backstory? The word is that this guy is a bad egg, but I think it takes more than just a bad egg to kookout on this poor woman in the way that it went down.
I'm with you - there's something more to this. I have no idea what, though.