[Red Badger]

Sounds like a railroad job........................

[NorthMountain]

On the one hand, the story as presented stinks on ice.

On the other hand, Al Jazeera.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

There's usually more than one side to these stories:

http://murderpedia.org/male.W/w/williams-marcellus.htm

[Enchante]

I don't know how the DNA issues shake out, but the Al Jazeera account leaves out some big things that do not support the defense:

Murderpedia website on State of Missouri vs. Marcellus Williams

On August 31, 1998, Williams was arrested on unrelated charges and incarcerated at the St. Louis City workhouse. From April until June 1999, Williams shared a room with Henry Cole. One evening in May, Cole and Williams were watching television and saw a news report about Gayle’s murder. Shortly after the news report, Williams told Cole that he had committed the crime. Over the next few weeks, Cole and Williams had several conversations about the murder. As he had done with Laura Asaro, Williams went into considerable detail about how he broke into the house and killed Gayle.

After Cole was released from jail in June 1999, he went to the University City police and told them about Williams’ involvement in Gayle’s murder. He reported details of the crime that had never been publicly reported.

In November of 1999, University City police approached Asaro to speak with her about the murder. Asaro told the police that Williams admitted to her that he had killed Gayle. The next day, the police searched the Buick LeSabre and found the Post-Dispatch ruler and calculator belonging to Gayle. The police also recovered the laptop computer from Glenn Roberts. The laptop was identified as the one stolen from Gayle’s residence.

[Trailerpark Badass]

Based on an Al jazeera article bemoaning the “racist American justice system,” that conveniently avoids mentioning any of the mountains of evidence against Williams? Are you stupid?