[Chad Fairbanks]

At the 11th Hour, as the inquest was going, a witness came forward named Wardell Fincher who claimed police did not knock, but just burst through door and murdered Baskin. It made a tense situation worse. No one had seen this witness before, etc. He was featured in the story by Mary Mapes and influencing direction of the inquest itself.

And let me guess - he was just some guy who knew absolutely nothing about the case, and was a fraud, a plant, and was "used" by Mary Mapes to further her agenda against the SPD. Am I close? I also bet she was REALLY furious when the police were exhonerated, right?

[Catphish]

The finsh is . . . that it turns out after Mapes' story caused a huge uproar that there was a reporter and a photographer with the police that night and they contradict the witness and back up the cops' story.

The reporter says that the "witness" wasn't actually a witness at all but a drunk who stumbled up after the incident and asked what happened. So Mapes' cheif witness in this story, that caused a huge uproar, was thouroughly discredited - and the talk show host draws a parrelel to Burkett.