And Westerfield took the rap and covered their complicity because...?
Wanted to escape the death penalty, or LIP with possibility of murder at the hands of fellow inmates by pleading innocent.
But, I don't know. I haven't even had the stomach to follow the case, so I am not familiar with a lot of the details, but two things bother me. One is that he snuck in, drunk as a skunk, and pulled off a remarkably clean rape and murder. Two is that the prosecution had to stretch things pretty badly to explain away the blowflies, which are pretty dang reliable six-legged witnesses with no dog in the fight.