Tag: false testimony
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Mark the Card With His Number
And so the Tall, Short, Balding, Blonde, Dark, Moustachioed, Dark or Light Skinned, Asian/Hispanic/Caucasian Man Was Identified. We’ve discussed the infamous lineup many times on this blog and in the book. You can read more about it HERE, HERE and HERE.It’s hard to imagine that anyone with critical thinking could look at the lineup procedure…
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To Prove a Lover
This is an addition to the article covering the murder of Tsai-Lian Yu and I would refer you back to that original post for all the details on this case. I am adding a little information we discovered during our visit to the Hall of Records in Los Angeles. Leafing through the first volume, we…
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“I’d Make Him My Man”
Sometimes victims of horrific crimes are beguiled, induced or traumatised into deliberately making wrongful identifications. This may be attributed to PTSD, manipulation, confabulation or rage. Here is one story where this nearly happened, if it hadn’t have been for a cooler head. The Man on the Mountain Los Angeles Times Magazine, page 11, 1st May…
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ODD ONE OUT
We’re back… The Night Stalker cases should have been split into separate trials to prevent a joinder or “spill-over” where evidence from another case is used to suggest a connection to another. There are several ways to divide the cases. This post will focus on those where Ramirez was prosecuted for rape-burglaries: Kyle, Dickman, Khovananth…
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California Dreamin’
A Den of Thieves We usually do not write about the charges against Richard Ramirez in San Francisco (SF) because the SF legal documents are unavailable. Most of what we know about the San Francisco charges against Richard comes from news articles available at the time, as well as small pieces of information contained within…
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Sensation-Seeking Parasites!
“The media, the television, authors, newspapers; they tragically fail in their most important duty to report the truth in an unbiased and truthful manner. It’s easier to convict a man with words than with evidence“. Richard Ramirez – from an interview with Mike Watkiss The media frenzy surrounding the capture of Richard had guaranteed a…
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Launie Dempster Strikes Three – The Doi Incident
The attack on William Doi and his wife, Lillie, occurred during the early hours Of May 14th, 1985. Monterey Park police dispatcher Darlene Boese received a 911 call at approximately 5:00 a.m. The system showed the address to be 1586 Trumbower Street (according to official reports, however, it’s “avenue” not “street”) A male voice repeatedly…
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Sophie Dickman and the Shortish Jewellery Expert
By Venning On July 7, 1985, Sophie Dickman was raped and robbed in Monterey Park by a man with a gun and soft curly brown hair. But her case, like many others in the Night Stalker investigation, raises disturbing questions, not only about the suspect’s identity, but about eyewitness unreliability, investigative overreach, and prosecutorial inconsistency.…
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Serial Delusions
“A series of crimes involves distinctive features, offences or signature mark to indicate that particular individual likely committed all of the crimes. Distinctive features of a modus operandi include cause of death, type of weapon used, or victim. By definition, a series of crimes requires similarity among the criminal acts; crimes linked together because of…
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The Light-Haired Man Who Attacked the Abowaths
This article will argue that the evidence in the Abowath case was deeply flawed in three areas: forensic science (bodily fluids), physical (shoeprints/firearms) and eyewitness identification. These raise serious doubts about Ramirez’s guilt for this crime. Diamond Bar, Los Angeles County 8th August 1985 Some time after 2:30am, Sakina Abowath was woken by a loud “pop”…
Expendable For A Cause. 