Hi, WW. I've already given reasons why I disagree with a lot of what you say and am not prepared to go through it all again. At the end of the day, there is no one on here or on the planet who knows exactly what happened to Jodi Jones. Only the killer knows. We can all speculate, theorise and draw inferences until the end of time. Makes no difference. AB swore under oath that she didn't know Jodi, and I believe her. She was a level-headed working mother of two young children at the time and her husband was the same; fairly decent and respectable people. I just find it extremely difficult to believe that they would lie about their relationship to the Jones & Walker families; likewise, I'd find it equally as difficult to believe that they'd be willing to collude and conspire with those families in order to hide a brutal murder. The same applies to the Jones and Walker families themselves -- I don't think they'd be willling to lie in order to protect their son/grandson (not just from a moral point of view, but for their own safety too). I would be most grateful if Mr Easton would upload AB's full court testimony to his blog as I feel it would clarify most points of our discussions.
I definitely believe the moped boys and their bike were thoroughly looked into and subsequently eliminated. Why wouldn't they be?? They were known to police, had had brushes with law for violence and were near the locus that day, so it stands to reason they would be investigated closely (even SL states in IB that both boys & JOSJ had their DNA taken and tested). As for them not being able to remember what they were doing near the locus that day, I agree that that is a tad strange, though maybe they just froze with worry in case they were falsely accused; or maybe they simply just couldn't remember (as implausible as it was). Anyway, like I said, I firmly believe they were examined carefully and meticulously until they could unequivocally be ruled out as having any part in the murder. As I said with AB, I think reading their full court testimonies will shed light on some questions.
As regards LM's capacity for murder and the circumstances of the murder ... I think a lot of people forget he was far from your average teenager He even said so himself. There were clear signs that LM was capable of doing this: his personality, nature, lifestyle, recreational hobbies/pursuits, history of violence and, above all, the overwhelming circumstantial evidence presented by the prosecution at the original trial between November 2004 and January.2005.
Hi MA. I understand a lot of what you are saying and why you think what you do, but there are numerous things about this case that just don't make any logical sense. The "not remembering what we were doing at the V" is clearly and obviously false. AB didn't lie or collude, she didn't even identify LM in the dock. You mentioned she had been in the Jones' house cutting hair, but this was in between the date of the murder and the Trial so when she said she didn't know the Jones', that wasn't true either was it? I don't believe AB colluded with anyone. The only point I'm making is that she was cited by the Prosecution as an independent witness, when she wasn't, she had been in their house. I doubt she knew Jodi as she would probably have been in school when these haircuts took place.
The moped boys were looked into but not for 5 days. Who knows what they did in those 5 days? How can the moped have been examined, the Police have never seen it, it disappeared? They didn't do it. but they know something, although they said they couldn't remember anything. I can't comment on whether certain people would cover up for their relative if they thought he/she had done it, because I don't know them. The FBI described this as a "lust killing" and that someone of LM's age or even older teenagers could not have carried out this type of murder. There are scientific reasons as to why only someone older would carry out a murder of this nature. The profile of the killer that the FBI produced did not match LM at all and that document has never been made public as far as I know and was never used as evidence against LM. Going by what the FBI said about this "lust killing" someone a few years older than LM would be extremely unlikely to do it either. Hence people the age of JF,GD,JaJ, SK and he who cannot be named also fall into the category of being too young at the time. The killer according to the FBI would have been in their 20s at the very lowest.
I think M.O'S saw the person who did it. He was standing in a lane next to her father in laws house. Her and her husband said this person looked nothing like LM and was much taller and much older, early 20s she said. This was probably the same person seen by other witnesses, none of whom got a good look at him, but M.O'S did. She slowed her car right down and looked straight at him because he was right next to her father in laws house. I think I know who that person was, but I obviously can't elaborate.
Jodi's body was moved to the V from somewhere else. The absence of blood where she was found proves that. Her socks were put back on inside out because they were filthy from being dragged along the ground. The person who did this was a maniac and even spent time moving the body because being caught wasn't a concern to them. The semen stain on the t-shirt was explained by washing machine transference but semen was also found on her body and those samples were apparently not tested, or if they were, the results were never disclosed. Those samples need to be tested.
