JackBurton
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Church-going people can be real wacky.
OT: True Crime
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MyNameIsJonas
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Hold onto the ones that do
MyNameIsJonas
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The dirt worst
Slinger 48
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WeHaveMoreCupsThanYou
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I don't. White privilege is the only reason those two imbeciles are still breathing right now. A black couple pulling that shit would have died 5 minutes into the video
JackBurton
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BTW, anyone see "The Innocent Man" on Netflix? It's based on Grisham's only true crime book and man, it's fantastic. Grisham appears in it.
Slinger 48
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Thanks for the recommendation. Started watching today and enjoying so far! These are my favorites!
hockeylover
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I'd probably enjoy too. Will check it out. Thanks.
JackBurton
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I had never heard of any of the 2 cases so it was a fantastic watch for me. I can see why Grisham would try true crime with that.
Montana
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yeah this was real good.
….but am I crazy or didn’t a girl testify that Ron Williamson had raped her in the past? In one of the earlier episodes?
That seemed like it was kinda glossed over, and not brought up again. If that was true, makes me have a lot less empathy over what he went through.
JackBurton
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I recall that, yes. Often these shows decide to portray people a certain way based on editing. Even true life movies do that, The film, "Conviction", about a woman who gets a law degree and gets her brother out of prison decided to leave-out that the brother got drunk and fell and died right after being released from prison because it would completely change how you felt about the "Feel good" story if they included that.
Montana
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also makes it a bit more understandable (but still inexcusable) why the cops may have been so laser focused on him. He’d already gotten away with it once, and they didn’t want it to happen again.
Also, I get that confessions can be coerced and everything, but it also feels kinda goofy how they go on and on about the other two being sent to jail based on absolutely nothing……except, you know the very detailed confessions they were willing to give. (Coerced or not, I feel like you have to accept some responsibility for admitting to something you didn’t do, and accepting the roll in played in you getting convicted)
also seemed dumb how they were going on and on about how the confessions didn’t match the cause of death when the bodies were found…..but if we released people for that, all you’d have to do to get away with murder is confess, but lie about all the details of it…..so when the body is found you’re exonerated, lol.
as you say tho, that’s just some of the narrative framing that goes on in these docs…..just found they really laid it on a bit thick here.
Montana
Champion
Few new details…..
- she claims she also ate the meal, and was hospitalized for a short period afterwards.
- says she bought two packages of mushrooms, one from a supermarket and one from an Asian grocer.
- she admit to lying to police, about having thrown her dehydrator away “a while ago”……but actually only threw it away after her husband asked her if that’s what she used to poison them.
police later found the dehydrator at the dump.
- and lastly one of the deceased had a conversation with a paramedic while being taken to hospital, and the information shared was then passed along to the homicide department.
Downloaded for my flight. Thanks. Looking forward to it.
axlsalinger
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finished up The Innocent Man, very well made and worth watching. some parallels to Making a Murderer, and hard to believe a lot of this stuff actually happened.
WeHaveMoreCupsThanYou
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The Brad Pitt v Amber Heard docuseries begins today on Netflix.
Binged right through The Innocent Man on the flights. Definitely enjoyed it. Ever since Hurricane back in the 90s I became 'woke' to the idea that people get wrongfully convicted.
This quote from episode 4 stood out for me:
"We talk all the time about the presumption of innocence; we act like there's a huge burden on the prosecution to overcome that presumption of innocence; but the fact is that jurors tend to think 'why would they have charged him if there wasn't the evidence? He's got to be guilty'"