Alleged Miscarriages of Justice > Luke Mitchell and the murder of his teenage girfriend Jodi Jones on 30 June 2003.
Luke Mitchell is Innocent Says Ex FBI Profiler.
faithlilly:
This article confirms two things that some of us have written about for many years.
A) There was a definite bias within Lothian and Borders police towards Luke being the killer.
B) The profile constructed by the FBI was not used in court because the FBI did not believe that Luke was the killer.
From the article :
AN ex-FBI profiler who worked with cops on the Jodi Jones murder said his team believe convicted killer Luke Mitchell is innocent.
Mark Safarik said they concluded Mitchell, then 14, was too young to have inflicted the sexual injuries Jodi, also 14, suffered.
Luke Mitchell was jailed for Jodi's murder in 2005
The retired crimebuster, who was a senior member of the FBI's elite Behavioural Analysis Unit, said his experts produced a detailed profile of Jodi's killer after police asked for their opinion.
Mr Safarik said: "If you have mutilation of sexual body parts you are talking about a lust killer and that is not what you are going to find in a boy of 14.
"The fantasy development and all that dynamic would just not exist at that age.
"But because the report didn't subscribe to their theory, they ignored it."
Jodi vanished in June 2003.
Her naked body was found with stab wounds and near-decapitated close to her home in Easthouses, Midlothian.
The chilling crime was featured in documentary Murder in a Small Town.
The show sparked a petition demanding an independent inquiry into his conviction, but was blasted by tragic Jodi's family as 'despicable'.
Two Lothian and Borders detectives flew to the US to meet the FBI, but dismissed their dossier.
Mr Safarik added: "If our fresh eyes on a complex case say you are looking at the wrong place, somebody should ask 'is our investigation going in the right direction?'
"But they had confirmation bias. If you just charge somebody convenient and who you think you can convict, that's disgraceful.
"It's a disservice to the victim, the justice system, and its morally wrong.
"The real offender is still out there."
Mitchell, now 33, was caged in 2005 after a trial and has seen three appeals fail.
Police say they are not looking for anyone else in the case.
https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/7931898/jodi-jones-cop-luke-mitchell-innocent/
Nicholas:
--- Quote from: faithlilly on November 01, 2021, 07:56:49 PM ---
Mr Safarik said: "If you have mutilation of sexual body parts you are talking about a lust killer and that is not what you are going to find in a boy of 14.
https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/7931898/jodi-jones-cop-luke-mitchell-innocent/
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Killer Luke Mitchell was almost 15 years of age when he murdered Jodi Jones and didn’t behave like your average ‘boy of 14’ around the time
--- Quote ---It’s very possible Luke Mitchell also carried out a ‘lust’ murder linked to the paraphilia erotophonophilia
There was a reason why the police asked Luke Mitchell questions about his sexual activity and it was ALL to do with the murder he’d committed and attempting to understand his sexually deviant nature
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Sandra Lean
‘In the early days, the police DID think it was a sexually motivated attack, then changed their mind (for no apparent reason). This was a 14 year old girl, stripped naked and bound - that, alone, suggests some sort of sexual motivation, for goodness sake.
But I'm delighted with this article today. These are the sorts of people we need to see speaking out - first we have experienced police officers, a QC and highly qualified forensic scientists, now a retired FBI profiler =who will be next????
The police also ‘DID’ think ‘in the early days’ Joan Albert’s murder was sexually motivated and it could be said they ‘then changed their minds (for no apparent reason)’
faithlilly:
--- Quote from: Nicholas on November 02, 2021, 11:49:45 AM ---Killer Luke Mitchell was almost 15 years of age when he murdered Jodi Jones and didn’t behave like your average ‘boy of 14’ around the time
Sandra Lean
‘In the early days, the police DID think it was a sexually motivated attack, then changed their mind (for no apparent reason). This was a 14 year old girl, stripped naked and bound - that, alone, suggests some sort of sexual motivation, for goodness sake.
But I'm delighted with this article today. These are the sorts of people we need to see speaking out - first we have experienced police officers, a QC and highly qualified forensic scientists, now a retired FBI profiler =who will be next????
The police also ‘DID’ think ‘in the early days’ Joan Albert’s murder was sexually motivated and it could be said they ‘then changed their minds (for no apparent reason)’
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I do wonder how, if the FBI profile had been disclosed to the defence and the jury, how much of a difference it would have made to the outcome of the case.
The non disclosure by the Crown would suggest that they were certainly worried about the effect it would have.
Nicholas:
--- Quote from: faithlilly on November 02, 2021, 12:07:41 PM ---I do wonder how, if the FBI profile had been disclosed to the defence and the jury, how much of a difference it would have made to the outcome of the case.
The non disclosure by the Crown would suggest that they were certainly worried about the effect it would have.
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On the back of this news article Sandra Lean has stated ⬇️
Sandra Lean
Is the tide finally turning?
What difference would Mark Safirak’s ‘profile’ have made - it was guesswork
Plus he never met killer Luke Mitchell
Nicholas:
--- Quote from: faithlilly on November 02, 2021, 12:07:41 PM ---I do wonder how, if the FBI profile had been disclosed to the defence and the jury, how much of a difference it would have made to the outcome of the case.
The non disclosure by the Crown would suggest that they were certainly worried about the effect it would have.
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Then there’s this on Mark Safarik from 2017 by the Los Angeles Times,
‘How an ex-FBI profiler helped put an innocent man behind bars’
https://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-profiler-wrongful-conviction-20170720-htmlstory.html
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