After finally getting Eugene to talk we learn that his testimony was also coerced. Eugene claims Detective Williams told Littlejohn that Kalvin had confessed to the crime and that if Eugene didn’t corroborate his story he would end up serving the same time as Kalvin because Kalvin said Eugene was with him when he attacked Jill Marker. Eugene then went on to say that all the witnesses in Kalvin’s case were berated by law enforcement and told what to say. Littlejohn also mentioned that during the initial investigation Detective Williams had him brought downtown for questioning every day for 2-3 weeks straight.

Ryan and Eva also got to speak to Pamela Moore, one of Kalvin’s ex-girlfriends, about her testimony. Pamela proceeds to tell Ryan and Eva that she never heard Kalvin say that he beat Jill Marker. She said she heard her boyfriend at the time claim that Kalvin said that to him. However, when she tried to tell police this they told her that she had to say she heard Kalvin say that he beat Jill. It had to come from her.

We also get to dig deeper into testimony from Michael’s case, specifically Josh, his friend who slept over the night of Rita’s murder. Josh wrote a written statement the same night of Michael’s mother’s murder never having mentioned Michael being out of his bedroom. However, two days later a video interview has Josh saying Michael was not in his bedroom and he heard a thud and the voice of a woman. Four years later Josh recants that statement and claims he would not have been able to see Michael if he was in his bed, so there was no way of knowing whether or not he was in the room. Ryan and Eva set out to find Josh and talk to him. Ryan head’s to Missouri but the address he had was incorrect. Luckily the phone number he has for Josh is correct. He texts Josh and says he is willing to listen to Josh’s story if he wants to tell it. On some level he relates to Ryan. Unfortunately Josh wants no part of it. Maybe with a little more prodding they can get Josh to open up.

The final case of this series was introduced in “We Shouldn’t Talk About This”. This case involves Byron Case, a young man in prison for the murder of his friend Anastasia WitbolsFeugen. Case has used up all his appeals and needs new evidence to be unearthed in order to reverse his conviction.

Anastasia was shot in the face at a cemetery. The night of the murder, Anastasia was hanging out with Byron Case and his girlfriend (Kelly Moffett), as well as Anastasia’s on again-off again boyfriend (Justin Bruton). Justin and Anastasia had an argument that night and later on she was found dead. Police went on the hunt for Justin who went a-wall. They found him dead two days later; he had shot and killed himself. As there was no physical evidence or murder weapon linking anyone to the crime the case went cold.

3 or 4 years after the murder (around 2000), Byron’s ex-girlfriend Kelly comes forward. She claims Byron saw Anastasia and Justin arguing, went into the trunk of the car, pulled out the gun and shot her in the face. This was after their relationship dwindled romantically and Byron decided to move to St. Louis with his friend Jamie Rickey. Did Kelly come forward because of jealousy or did she come forward because she felt safe enough to do so?

At the time Kelly Moffett was smoking crack and was homeless. Byron was her safe haven. A person she could fall back on when she was near rock bottom. When Byron told Kelly he was moving she threatened him saying she would make his life a living hell. This is approximately the time she recanted her statement claiming Byron had a fascination with death. Byron was then categorized as a killer/psychopath because he was Goth. A lifestyle choice with a stigma attached to it due to the recent Columbine shooting.

However, it is important to note that Kelly had to have law enforcement give her clues about the case and she couldn’t remember where the murder had taken place. You think something that traumatic wouldn’t be so easily forgotten.

One of the most puzzling pieces of this case is the recording of the phone conversation between Kelly and Byron. Police officers asked Kelly to try and get a confession out of Byron when she called him. They gave her a recording device and what transpired is bewildering. When Kelly asks Byron why he killed Anastasia instead of denying it he says “we shouldn’t talk about this”. She asks him again in a slightly different way and he repeats the same phrase. If he is innocent why wouldn’t he outright deny the accusations? Why would he say not to talk about it? Ryan and Eva definitely have their hands full with this one.

Next Week:

Ryan and Eva answer the question: Can Jill identify anyone in her condition?

Ryan and Eva talk to Josh or one of his relatives

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Ryan and Eva talk to Michael’s father and learn that he doesn’t want to reconnect with his son. We also learn that he had a solid alibi the night Michael’s mother was killed but from that meeting you could clearly see he has issues controlling his anger. Even his second ex-wife thinks he was somehow involved. Ryan and Eva also begin work on Kalvin Michael Smith’s case. A man convicted of assault with intent to kill. In December 1995 a young pregnant woman, Jill Marker, was brutally attacked at the store she worked at and was left for dead. Luckily she lived and identified Kalvin as her attacker. However we learn that she had been stalked by Kenneth Lamoureux, an older white man with mental issues and a history of violence. Kenneth was seen in the store moments before Jill was attacked and witnesses even made statements of seeing him in the store acting very suspicious. However, he was never fully looked into because Michael’s ex-girlfriend, girlfriend at the time and best friend at the time all stated that he was bragging about attacking Jill. The investigation of this case is very suspicious. Questions that have been brought up are: How did the photo lineup go? How can you have a photo lineup ID from a patient (Jill) who doctor’s said brain was like putty and who was also non-verbal at the time? “Honey That’s A Dangerous Man”, delves further into Kalvin and Michael’s cases.

In last night’s episode [Wednesday, August 31], we learn Michael’s uncle on his father’s side, Johnny Politte, was spotted by Larry Lee and Kevin Politte walking through the woods by the Politte home the night Michael’s mother was murdered. He was seen walking through the woods before the fire department arrived. Kevin discovered his truck by the railroad tracks while Larry actually spoke to him asking if he needed a ride. He declined stating his truck was just down the road but made sure to mention that Mike’s mother had died, yet this information had not yet been released. Larry also noticed that Johnny’s close were wet. Was it water or something else? Gasoline? Larry told Ryan and Eva that Johnny came to the Lee’s home a few days later and questioned Larry’s wife about what they knew about Michael’s mother’s murder. This made Larry’s wife uneasy and she ultimately told him to leave. This begs the question: why is Johnny so concerned about what the Lee’s know? What is he hiding?

Ryan and Eva also meet up with Kenneth Lamoureux’s ex-wife to learn more about him, since he is now deceased. We learn that Kenneth hated his wife when she was pregnant and became much more violent with her. One day before Jill’s attack, Lamoureux’s ex-wife was brutally attacked by Kenneth in front of their children; he broke her hand and fingers by slamming them into a doorway. The police were called and Kenneth was held for 4 hours giving his ex-wife enough time to gather her kids and get out of state. The judge and police officers knew Kenneth was a dangerous man, yet he was still never fully investigated in the Jill Marker case.

Ryan and Eva also talk to William Speaks, Kalvin’s original public defender to learn more about what happened at the trial. They also bring in an attorney from the exoneration project and learn that most of Eugene Littlejohn’s (Kalvin’s former best friend) confession/statement was coerced or fed to him by investigators. The whole interrogation was contaminated with bits of information from the crime scene. All Littlejohn did was say yes and when he didn’t say yes or couldn’t remember he was fed information and then replied with “yes”.

We also got to see the affect Kalvin’s incarceration had on his family, especially his mother. She turned to crack/cocaine for over a decade but now have been clean for 5 years. Ryan enlists her help to go on the hunt for Eugene. They find him but he walks away from her.

Next Week

Ryan finally gets to talk to Eugene

Third case introduced: Bryon Case

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