Teresa's life cut short on the shores of Lake Knight...1500 feet from her house next to a "pump house" pictured below. Notice that her jeans are pulled up and her shirt is tucked inside her jeans. It appears that she dressed herself.
If I were "writing" the scene about that fateful night in a story this is what I believe happened.
Teresa liked teenage boys. she was secretly talking to an older teenage boy behind the dumpster. He was one of three teenage boys that she had been talking to at the laundromat. When James Duckett pulled up in his police cruiser, two boys walked toward him but the third boy walked behind the Circle K. He never emerged. I believe Teresa told her mother she needed a pencil because she wanted to meet this boy behind the Circle K.
Then after James pulled away in his cruiser (like he stated in his testimony, and affirmed by many witnesses with the exception of Gwen Gurley who lied to get out of prison early) Teresa went around the back of the Circle K - looking like she was headed home- but went with the boy for a walk by the lake.
They walked to the "pump house" to kiss and make out (I believe it started to drizzle at that time). Things probably went too far sexually and Teresa got scared because it hurt her - but her hymen was not completely torn. Then the teenage boy probably ejaculated his semen outside her pants on her jeans. Then Teresa pulled up her own pants and tucked in her shirt while she was threatening to tell her uncles on him.
He got scared and choked her while she was standing. She put her hands on his forearms to try to protect herself. When she went unconscious he pushed her down toward his right side and the lake - and that is why her right foot is over her left foot still on the edge of the lake and she fell face down in the water. She may have still been alive but the teenage boy then ran away and she drowned.
If a man had raped her he wouldn't have tucked her shirt/blouse in her jeans, her hymen would have been completely torn, and he would have been strong enough if he were James' size to throw her into the lake not leave her on the edge of the lake.
I believe this young girl who was at the age to be interested in boys met with a tragic end...not an abduction and rape and murder. This young boy probably had no intention of killing her but was scared.
But now an innocent man is facing a death penalty because of a prejudiced investigation where the detectives picked their suspect and made their case to convict him using any means including coaching a fabricated eye witness to testify she saw Teresa drive away with James in his car.
Do the DNA test on her jeans.
Washington Post, 7/30/14:
ReplyDeleteAlthough FBI policy has stated since at least the 1970s that a hair association cannot be used as positive identification, like fingerprints, agents regularly testified to the near-certainty of matches.
In reality, there is no accepted research on how often hair from different people may appear the same. The FBI now uses visual hair comparison to rule out someone as a possible source of hair or as a screening step before more accurate DNA testing.
This month, the inspector general reported that inattention and foot-dragging by the Justice Department and the FBI led them to ignore warnings 15 years ago that scientifically unsupported and misleading testimony could have come from more than a single hair examiner among agents discredited in a 1997 inspector general’s report on misconduct at the FBI lab.
The report said that as of 1999, Justice Department officials had enough information to review all hair unit cases — not just those of former agent Michael P. Malone, who was identified as the agent making the most frequent exaggerated testimony.
After a state police examiner was unable to match pubic hair found in the victim’s underwear, prosecutors went to Malone, who testified at trial that there was a “high degree of probability” that the hair came from Duckett.
Such testimony is scientifically invalid, according to the parameters of the current FBI review. The Florida court denied Duckett’s request for a new hearing on Malone’s hair match.
Duckett attorney Mary Elizabeth Wells confirmed this week that Duckett’s case was under the FBI’s review. Both Wells and Whitney Ray, a spokeswoman for Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, said Thursday that parties had not been notified of results, but they otherwise declined to comment.
Duckett did this and there is a mountain of circumstantial evidence. He lied about Mcbee being in the car, and her prints were found all over it, including hers intermingled with his. He forged a notebook entry creating a phony alibi. In a tiny town he disappeared for the entire night and had no radio calls. He lied about 3 other girls he has made sexual advances on that were underage. His tire prints were at the scene and they were a rare nothern tire that was sent to the local dealer by accident that went on the 2 local patrol cars.Though not a smoking gun, the pubic hair was said to match. There is a semen sample that Ducket refuses to have tested because it would consume the whole sample. That was 13 years ago. If I were sitting on death row and innocent that couldn't get tested fast enough.
ReplyDeleteDuckett is also the suspect in 2 other murders, including one that happened after Theresa. A girl disappeared who was at the carnival with a lime green bag, who his wife later said was in Duckett's possession.
At every juncture the evidence has always pointed to Duckett or he has lied about some other pertinent component of the case. Yeah, and once they lock him up the murders stop happening. He is guilty as hell and his phony charm or shit eating grin doesn't change that.