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Phyzzle posted:The Staircase About a bizarre murder trial, from the point of view of a man accused of killing his wife. Thanks for this, it was awesome but I totally disagree with the comments posted earlier -the documentary was clearly biased in favour of the husband but I don't understand at all how the jury came to a guilty verdict!? Even the prosecution seemed to have given up by the end due to the overwhelming lack of evidence - murder weapon turned out to just be in the house untouched, motive (if it was really resting on the fact he was bisexual) was not nearly strong enough to carry the whole thing and the forensic evidence on him, on her and the staircase all point to it NOT being a homicidal attack. The list of 'reasonable doubts' the defence lawyer comes up with at the end seemed pretty definitive - was this just a case of how badly the system can work against an innocent man? EDIT: Oops just saw this, could anyone point me to this extra information? Angiepants posted:I got the same vibe as you did but I still wasn't sure if I thought he was guilty or not until I read up about the case afterward. Apparently he and one of his sons were both in massive amounts of debt and Kathleen had a $1.8m life insurance policy. The film obviously worked an angle as that was never mentioned in any of the eight parts. Still a wild ride and I've been recommending it to everyone since I finished it yesterday afternoon. Johnny Deformed fucked around with this message at 13:30 on May 23, 2010 |
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