asaro had more reasons to make these claims https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/21/us/marcellus-williams-missouri-death-row/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/21/u

asaro had more reasons to make these claims https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/21/us/marcellus-williams-missouri-death-row/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/21/us/marcellus-williams-missour... >And though Picus’ laptop was recovered, the prosecuting attorney’s office says Roberts told investigators Williams said he’d gotten it from Asaro – a claim Roberts reiterated in an affidavit signed in 2020. Jurors at trial never heard this assertion, which the prosecutor’s motion says illustrates “the person with the most direct connection to the crime” was “Laura Asaro, and not Marcellus Williams.” additionally, they only made the statements after being threatened by police >The woman at first denied having information about the crime, prosecutors’ motion states. But after meeting with police several times – and being promised charges she was facing would be dropped and told she would be eligible for the reward – Asaro eventually cooperated, telling police she had indeed seen Williams on the afternoon of the murder, the motion states.