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Adnan Syed: A miscarriage of justice is unfolding in Baltimore
Adnan Syed: A miscarriage of justice is unfolding in Baltimore Hae Min Lee — the real victim On September 19th 2022, Adnan Syed went back to his family home for the first time since his arrest on February 28th, 1999 – over 23 years ago. Syed was convicted of murdering his ex-girlfriend Hae Min Lee in 2000 at his second trial, after his accomplice Jay Wilds came forward to police and confessed to helping Syed bury Hae’s body in Leakin Park, and led police to where he and Syed abandoned Hae’s car. For his part Wilds pled guilty to accessory after the fact, a felony, and accepted two years of…
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Tried, convicted and executed: but was Kosoul Chanthakoummane guilty?
Tried, convicted and executed: but was Kosoul Chanthakoummane guilty? The victim, Sarah Walker This is a look back at some of my previous work. I published this comment piece, with full references to source material, about the 2006 murder of Sarah Walker by Kosoul Chanthakoummane and the subsequent appeals and innocence claims prior to his execution on August 17, 2022. The latest relatively high-profile claim of innocence from a convicted killer on Death Row was that of Kosoul Chanthakoummane, convicted of murdering Sarah Walker in 2006. While Chanthakoummane always denied the crime, DNA evidence places him at the scene, bleeding, with his blood under the victim’s fingernails. Chanthakoummane was executed…
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Jennifer Jeffley claimed to have two accomplices: did the police look for them?
On October 29th 1996, Catalina Palomino was murdered in her apartment in Houston, Texas. She was a deeply religious woman who spent her days volunteering at her local church.