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The Killing of Jessica Chambers.
A horrible murder. Worth a watch. The police manipulate the cell phone technology, and the DNA evidence is in doubt. The jury are all over the shop.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_r6pL7y5Ltc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_r6pL7y5Ltc
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I'm watching The Confession Killer on Netflix right now. I want to hop on a plane and rip the Texas Rangers a new one.
His lawyer represented Ryan Ferguson on Dream Killer.
She is relentless.
The cost of a lawyer.
The cost of expert witnesses.
The poor quality of some lawyers.
The focus of their investigations.
They put so much store in the murder weapon, and confessions.
They don't seem to care how they get a confession, or from whom they get it.
They never seem at all keen to release the not guilty.
I don't really know how our legal system compares.
I don't think I would be spoiling anything by saying the following about this case.
The crime scene investigation is very poor.
The police evidence is suspect.
When the copper in charge is giving evidence he maintains that an alternative suspect had an alibi that they accepted, yet in the next breath he admits to not knowing the time that the crime actually took place.
They adjust the cell phone data to suit the CCTV footage.
An independent expert working for the programme makers clearly states that this was ridiculous, and that this was really evidence of the defendants innocence rather than guilt.
When the emergency services arrive at the scene, the victim was asked who was responsible, to which she replied Eric, when pushed some of the witnesses quoted her as saying either Eric, or Derrick.
Around 10 witnesses were absolutely clear on this, yet the defendant was called Quinton.
It was horrendous to see how their evidence changed.
The DNA evidence was dubious.
There was DNA evidence on her car keys.
The scientist giving the evidence merely stated that the defendant could not be ruled out.
A normal DNA test was carried out and the defendants DNA could not be identified.
A further DNA test was carried out.
This test only referred to male DNA, and evidence of 4 different males was found.
It was not possible to identify any of the 4.
So they focused on the fact that he couldn't be ruled out, despite the fact that maybe 10 million other males also couldn't be ruled out.
They were unable to pin down when any of the DNA that was left on the keys.
The defendant had admitted to the police that he had previously driven the victims car, and even though his DNA was entitled to be on the keys, they were unable to identify it.
Many of the witnesses appeared to be very uncomfortable.
Some of the witnesses disappeared, and new witnesses appeared.
There was a claim by a prisoner that he had a visit from the prosecutor, who tried to persuade him to testify that the victims pet name for Quinton, the defendant was Eric.
In all these cases they seem to lose sight of the fact that a murderer is still out there.
My view is that the prosecutor should be in jail.
He is a diagnosed narcissist and should never be allowed in a court room again.
I think the biggest stumbling block for the prosecution, at least in trial one, was the clear way that 10 witnesses all testified that the victim said that the perpetrator was called Eric. This was the case for the overwhelming majority, with a couple suggesting that she had said Eric, or Dereck.
This is a huge hurdle to get over when the defendant is called Quinton.
I think the defence in trial two, should have shown the jury a video comparison of these witnesses testimony, and how it changed from trial one, to trial two. It was so incredible that what was clearly "Eric" in the first trial, became an incoherent mumble in the second trial.
The cell phone evidence was bogus, and the real expert claimed it proved the defendants innocence.
This was not exploited by the defence.
It seems that the prosecution was clutching at straws in the second trial, when they produced a new witness to say that she saw a black man, that she couldn't identify, walking where the defendant might have been walking, if he had committed the crime. This witness could only create more reasonable doubt.
It would not surprise me if The Prosecutor did attempt to persuade the defendants cell mate to testify that the victims pet name for the defendant was Eric. Had the jury believed this, it may have swung the verdict.
I cant remember his story changing, but its been a while now, and I am getting old.
I don't believe that he was guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
Jessica Chambers' boyfriend is shot and killed five years after she was burned to death
The former boyfriend of Jessica Chambers was found shot to death Friday
Travis Sanford, 33, was jailed when Chambers was burned to death in 2014
He was shot to death early Friday at a home in Courtland, Mississippi
A suspect has been taken into custody, but hasn't been charged yet
The suspect in Chambers' death, Quentin Tellis has been tried twice but on both occasions the trial resulted in a hung jury
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6816707/Jessica-Chambers-boyfriend-shot-killed-five-years-burned-death.html
The mystery deepened in the horrific murder of 19-year-old Jessica Chambers when new details emerged about a stranger flagging down a car for a ride the night she was burned alive.
The bombshell revelation was introduced Wednesday at the murder retrial for Quinton Tellis, who allegedly had sex with and killed Chambers in December 2014 on a rural road in Courtland, Mississippi.
Tellis, 29, faces capital murder charges in Panola County Circuit Court for allegedly dousing Chambers in gasoline then setting the former cheerleader and her car on fire.
Prosecutors brought in a new witness who claimed she picked up a young man near where Chambers’ keys were found — but didn’t come forward with the information until after Tellis’ first trial, which ended in 2017 with a hung jury.
The witness, local resident Sherry Flowers, was called to testify Wednesday and claimed she stopped on the side of the road for the stranger because she initially thought he was her cousin.
The male hitchhiker — whom she described as black and in his early 20s — reportedly told her he needed a ride to his aunt Julia Chambers’ house, which he claimed caught fire. While not related to the victim, Julia Chambers is a distant relative of the 29-year-old defendant Tellis.
Flowers obliged because she was familiar with Julia Chambers and the home was near where he’d flagged her down in Courtland, according to her testimony.
Julia Chambers also took the stand Wednesday, confirming that firefighters paid a visit to her home the evening that Jessica Chambers was killed. She said that her home had become filled with smoke in a separate incident involving a microwave.
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Ben Chambers, father of Jessica Chambers, breaks down during testimony in the retrial.
AP
But Julia Chambers claimed that it has “been a while” since she saw Tellis and he never appeared at her home the night of the murder.
https://nypost.com/2018/09/26/mystery-hitchhiker-is-latest-twist-in-trial-of-teen-cheerleader-burned-alive/
http://conservative-headlines.com/2015/01/ex-boyfriend-says-that-jessica-chambers-was-gang-raped-twice/
Laqunta Tellis’ “Eric” tattoo has viewers of “Unspeakable Crime: The Killing of Jessica Chambers” asking questions on social media.
Eric Hill, according to a police warrant obtained by Oxygen.com, was a key informant in the Meing-Chen Hsiao murder investigation in Louisiana.
https://www.oxygen.com/unspeakable-crime-the-killing-of-jessica-chambers/crime-time/why-laqunta-tellis-tattoo-is-shocking