Posted on 09/19/2021 6:37:34 PM PDT by conservative98
I only have one question.
Is the Mustang on your home page with the Roush banner on the windshield, yours?
The mom crack was out of bounds and puts you on the jackhole loser list.
Do not reply to me in the future.
Wrong. They can be brought into a Grand Jury to testify.
And if they are caught lying, they go to jail.
I did a quick count of all the threads and comments on this case, since it broke.
There are 25 threads and 2,270 comments!!!!
On July 21, 1988, Sandra Cwik’s body was discovered in the mountains near San Diego, California. She had been murdered. Ronald Porter was arrested for the crime.
(The case was on the “Insect Clues” episode of “Forensic Files” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33INHGh16IE.)
At his trial, the strongest evidence against him was the entomology. Based on testimony by Law Enforcement’s regular forensic entomologist, she had died on the night of July 17. (Quoting the narrator, “Sandra Cwik was still alive when the Sun set on Sunday evening July 17th but she was dead by daybreak on Monday morning July 18th ”. Porter didn’t have an alibi for that time, so he was convicted and sentenced to life.
So Forensic Entomology is very accurate and trustworthy. Right? Wrong!
Just ten years later, Danielle van Dam went missing from her home in San Diego. The police almost immediately suspected her neighbor, David Westerfield, because he had gone to the distant desert that weekend (even though that’s something he often did). So he was promptly placed under round-the-clock surveillance. Three weeks later, her body was discovered. (It wasn’t anywhere near that desert, in fact it was relatively close to her home and just a few miles from where Cwik’s body had been found.)
Once again, Law Enforcement called in their regular expert. After doing his calculations, he gave his dates which implied that she had only died about two weeks after Westerfield was being surveilled. So he couldn’t possibly have done it: right? But he had already been arrested, and they didn’t release him, instead, they proceeded to trial.
At his trial, their regular entomology expert testified instead for the defense (!), who also brought in two other entomology experts (one of whom is internationally known) who supported his conclusion. The prosecution brought in their own expert, and he ALSO gave dates that excluded Westerfield - but added that it could have been earlier.
As luck would have it, Westerfield had the same prosecutor as Porter. In Porter’s trial, the prosecutor argued for the accuracy of entomology; but in Westerfield’s trial, in stark contrast, he trashed the science.
The jury rejected the entomology evidence - and the fact that there was no evidence of Westerfield at either of the crime scenes (the kidnapping and the recovery sites), and found him guilty anyway. He was sentenced to death and has been on death row ever since.
That case, like the Petito-Laundrie case, was high profile, and the police had persuaded the media and the community of the suspect’s guilt. So even if entomology evidence strongly points to Laundrie’s innocence, there’s a good chance he will be arrested, tried and convicted anyway.
Larvae development, on which the entomology evidence is based, depends heavily on temperature. In Gabby’s case, I don’t know what the weather in that Grand Teton Park was like over the past month, but at Jackson Hole Airport, which is presumably nearby, maximum temperatures have mostly been above 70F, even sometimes above 80F, so larvae development would have been fairly rapid, and so would have been body decomposition, which could complicate autopsy findings.
We were just out that way. Nights were cold, days were 60s and 70s.
Was trying to give him the benefit of the doubt.
They never even bothered to call her parents to say he wouldn’t tell them anything. They refused to speak to anyone except their lawyer.
Those look more like Robert Mugabe specials. :)
I live in California. Have a boat in Ventura. Travel back and forth between Vegas, Ventura, and where I live. I live in flip flops and drive everywhere with them. Sanuk is my preferred brand.....or Havaianas if I’m feeling really casual. My only other footwear is UGGs when it’s cold or rainy.
Thanks for that information. So it was a little colder than the airport: at a higher elevation perhaps?
I should also have mentioned carnivorous animals which feed on the body. I see there is a wide variety of animals in that Park. there are bears, wolves, mountain lions, beetles, in addition of course to the larvae which I’ve already mentioned. In three weeks, they could have consumed much of the body, potentially making it very difficult to determine the cause of death.
Great days not that long ago. FL is a Southern state hosting a whole lot of unappreciative outsiders who constantly tell 8th generation Floridians how to do things, and seem to always involve fedgov in their persistence.
Do you understand the concept of jurisdiction?
Behave yourself hall monitor:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3928396/posts
That’s kind of silly.
There are lots of reasons why a woman might not be wearing her wedding ring. I haven’t worn mine in years, except for special occasions. It’s too big for me now, it’s an heirloom engraved twice over 100 years, and can’t be cut.
And I never wore it routinely around the house anyway, for fear of damaging it with all the stuff I do.
I understood that there was a note on the car from some local authority asking that it be moved, when they first went looking for it; and they left it there a little longer regardless before they finally took it home.
Explain it to me.
No crime was committed in North Port. They had no authority to do anything - and it was an FBI missing person case taking place in another state which North Port hadn’t been asked to assist.
The North Port police didn’t get involved at all until Laundrie was reported missing - then they had a missing person case of their own.
Good choice
Nonsense.
When Gabby was reported missing North Port Police could have provided
legal surveillance of the Laundrie Home. It does not take a warrant
to do visible surveillance.
Just the foresight to think ahead.
Now the Boyfriend is long gone.
Good luck in finding him now.
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