Fingerprint plus a DNA match, and cold case gets hot

The Virginian-Pilot ^ | September 6, 2014 | Tim McGlone

[csvset]

"Your character is not bad. This doesn't sound like the kind of thing you would do. Going back to your character, you're not a guy who's on the street. You're not on the street gangbanging, shooting and robbing.... You're a good, hardworking guy."

I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy"

[cynwoody]

Is he sensitive about his ears?

[ArtDodger]

Very well written article. Concise and understandable.

[Dr. Pritchett]

Wow. So the mother, a petty officer, stayed living with her teenage daughter in the same house after she was raped there once. So the guy comes back and does it again and the mother hasn’t increased her security or aquired any weapons for their defense?!? Not blaming the victim here, but holy cow...

[iowamark]

Article doesn’t mention it, of course, but Amin is a Muslim name. The “babykiller” comment to the Navy victim is not “inexplicable” at all.

[Popman]

-——Very well written article. Concise and understandable.-——

Yes. Indeed....

Herder and harder to find nowadays....

[sr4402]

During his interrogation in New York in January, Garcia told a detective that the sex was consensual that August night, but he stopped the interview and asked for a lawyer. Later, while awaiting trial, he filed papers in court saying he had an alibi the night of the second attack. He was with two friends, each of whom backed him on it. Garcia's case went to trial last week in Norfolk Circuit Court. He did not ask for a jury.

Looks like he did not plead guilty here and the judge threw the book at him. Good character - Hardly.

[jocon307]

Yes, for a change!

But I’m still surprise he was able to elude capture while on a base in Kuwait.

[jocon307]

Yes, I thought that too. I don’t think I could keep living there.

[ican'tbelieveit]

Many years ago, when living in a bigger city, outskirts anyway, my house was broken into while I was at work. I came home to it about 1 am.

The next morning, I had an alarm installed, bought 2 dogs.

I had the exact same thought, how did he come back in.

[Iron Munro]

Is he sensitive about his ears?

He's got Obama ears - they look like someone left the doors open on the garbage truck.

[ronnie raygun]

So he wasnt shot by a white cop? non story

[Pollster1]

Amin Jason Carl Garcia

I don't care that he's (perhaps) a black Muslim Hispanic; none of those details are crimes. What matters is that he's a violent serial rapist. The felonies should be enough to lock him up for 80+ years without parole. It's not about punishment or rehabilitation in my mind; it's about warehousing him forever, so that he is no longer a danger to decent people.

[ottbmare]

If you’re active duty military, it’s not that easy to shift housing around. For anyone, selling a house or getting out of a lease and moving is not a fast process. Buying a trained guard dog is not a fast process either. Buying a gun in Virginia—that’s fast.

[vetvetdoug]

One of Holder's heroes and a Son of Obama.

[Vinnie]

"Your character is not bad. This doesn't sound like the kind of thing you would do. Going back to your character, you're not a guy who's on the street. You're not on the street gangbanging, shooting and robbing.... You're a good, hardworking guy."

Ever watch First 48 ? Interrogations are nothing like TV drama interrogations. Rarely confrontations.
The detectives usually sympathize with the perp, befriending him, convincing him he just lost it in the heat of the moment. Even holding the perp's hand sometimes.
It's amazing how some of the most hardened criminals break down and fall for it.
You're watching this and saying to yourself,'is that cop nuts? This guy needs the needle!' but he got the confession.
Danny Reagan tactics aren't productive.(Blue Bloods reference)

[PAR35]

Math isn’t your strong suit? You can’t add 1+1 and get 2?

Or is it that you don’t want to risk being politically incorrect?

[MaxMax]

"He said he liked me and asked if he could come by and visit," she said in her statement.

This is a rare glimpse into the mind of a serial rapist. This guy did not think
for one moment that he would either be caught, or that he was doing anything wrong
Sure he took precautions to avoid arrest but that is considered part of the game

Death sentence due to undeniable proof, he admitted it and DNA proves it.
There is no cure.

[junta]

I know people who know people up fairly high in law enforcement and its being noted amongst that class of professionals that the next thing is basically pre-crime indicators or profiling in other words. Doesn’t necessarily come down to racial patterns but it will include patterns of life. So if you have it in your head that whites are devils (sub humans) infidels can be abused and your music tastes show a lack of human empathy (gangster rap) you will be known.

[MaxMax]

I really like that part of 48. The sympathy talk with questions like,
Oh, he pulled the gun and it went off? Well that sounds like self defense.
Then 1st degree murder charges follow.