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Looking up the case, the evidence seems to be: - Defendant lied about getting into Harvard Business School, lied about being employed, was actually very in deb
by burkaman 10y ago
Looking up the case, the evidence seems to be:
- Defendant lied about getting into Harvard Business School, lied about being employed, was actually very in debt, and his wife had a $250,000 life insurance policy
- Defendant immediately fled the state after his wife died, leaving behind lots of expensive property, and soon started dating someone new
- Defendant had apparently kept insisting that his wife really liked Gatorade, which people who knew her found odd, and Gatorade is a good medium to hide the taste of antifreeze
- Wife was not suicidal, and had medical training, so she would have known that antifreeze is a terrible way to kill yourself
- Investigators found various searches for homemade poisons, including antifreeze, on the defendant's laptop
Some jury members said the laptop evidence was what convinced them. It is conceivable that the sentence would be overturned if the laptop evidence is suppressed, which is what EFF wants.
- eplanit 10y ago> - Investigators found various searches for homemade poisons, including antifreeze, on the defendant's laptop > Some jury members said the laptop evidence was what convinced them. It's almost funny how often this is the Achilles's heel of murderers. In so many "Forensic Files" episodes the culprits' browser/search history is what nails them.
- jcranmer 10y agoApparently, the report that Casey Jones did 84 searches for chloroform was based on a misreading of the mork file format (see https://www.jwz.org/blog/2011/07/mork-keeps-on-giving-when-the-database-worms-eat-into-your-murder-trial/ https://www.jwz.org/blog/2011/07/mork-keeps-on-giving-when-t..., although you'll want to type that out yourself rather than click the link). The competence of people doing this sort of discovery is not unquestionable.