Vanishing Act: The Hunt for Margaret and Cory Ray | The Prosecutors | Real Crime
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- "The Prosecutors" double episode:
Ep 1 - When a mother and her infant daughter disappear from rural Huntsville, Texas, suspicion quickly falls on the woman's husband. Lacking evidence, authorities cannot make an arrest. With the case growing cold, a teenager hundreds of miles away confesses to the murder of Margaret and Kori Rae Owings.
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I also feel sorry for the father of the murderer. While the right thing to do, that would have been one hell of a hard call to make.
Why? What else was he going to do? If he's a decent human being.
It's still pretty heartbreaking to realize your child has done something like that.
@@TawnyC_ I don't believe I said he shouldn't? What I said if you choose to actually read and understand is that it would have been a heartbreaking call to make.
That’s what you do as a parent, you don’t cover up your children’s mistakes that only makes bigger monsters
@@fatsolutions
True. But. No matter what , you love your children.
It would have broken my heart, knowing mine could even be capable of THINKING of such a heinous crime.
This is the exact reason Defense attorneys are so despised. The defendant killed a mother and buried an infant alive and wanted to appeal the conviction KNOWING he was guilty of the crime. If anyone deserved the death penalty, it was him.
That wasn't the point. The defense attorney was trying to prevent the state from killing his client. That state had the death penalty. We wouldn't want the government (in the name of the people) to sanction murder, would we?
@@tonirose6776 That wasnt the point. The attorney was furious even tho the cops had no reason to contact him, like ruled by the judge.
@@tonirose6776 yes
What if it was his wife and 16 month old daughter would he still feel the same.
How do defense attorneys of monsters like him sleep at night?
No legal issues ,lawyer!! He was mirandized. Was offered counsel . He denied it and voluntarily confessed.
at least the judge had a level head. He wasn't going to fall for fat-faced shyster tricks.
Agree absolutely. He had already confessed to his father. He'd had time to think between then and his police interrogation. He knew about and understood his Miranda rights perfectly well from the previous case. Perhaps some tiny remaining shred of decency in him recognised that there was no way out of this one. His humane execution will be nothing compared to what he inflicted on Maggie and Cory Ray.
Yeah all the gates on the attorney would want a good defense attorney if they get arrested.
@@emmasurf8109 I can understand a defense attorney negotiating for a lighter sentence for a client who's been found guilty, but trying to get the perp off despite the overwhelming preponderance of evidence? That's inexcusable.
@@adotintheshark4848. That’s their job
My eyes are literally watering at the imagination that the innocent baby was burried alive😢
How do such people even go to sleep
They’re sociopaths. The only life beyond their own which has any value whatsoever might be their parents’, siblings’, children, and then ONLY because of the genetic relationship. The clincher with Cobb’s sociopathy is not that he killed the baby’s mother, but - as you pointed out - the fact that he was capable of burying an infant alive for absolutely NO REASON WHATSOEVER. And just to top off Cobb’s revolting qualities, he told investigators that he “didn’t mean” to kill the young mother & her daughter. Uh-huh . . . S-U-R-E, you betcha. What did you think was going to happen when you covered a living baby with DIRT?
Finally, Cobb procreated - a tragedy in & off itself. Can you imagine being HIS kid? Had I been Cobb’s girlfriend, I would have given up the baby for adoption. Let him/her have a fresh start in life without the burden of knowing his/her origins.
Unfortunately evil never sleeps.
I know! I mean, even if he'd caused the death of the mother... he could have just dropped the baby off at a hospital or fire department. Didn't have to bury the poor little one alive.
I had to pause the video, I couldn't comprehend what I heard 😱
@@thepaganapostate3208 He could have left the baby in the house. I can't understand this. I just cannot 😨
What an awful thing to do! The husband was looked upon as the murderer after going through the heartbreak of losing and not knowing where his family was. Cold-hearted, burying a baby??
And how dare he try to have a family!!
Unfortunately it doesn’t take much to get someone pregnant!
That doesn’t make him a father just a sperm donor😡
@@theresarasche3173 Yes, I hate sperm donors that think they've done their job & do nothing else!
Arrested while with his pregnant girlfiend after he had murdered a young mother & a live baby...WOW!!!!
Yes exactly wow he's having a child of his own
Sadly that's karma
and not to mention that he totally minimised both murders....so it was much worse than we heard.
she didnt fall on the knife and her baby didnt just fall into that hole
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Probably, by doing this, they saved the life of his girlfriend and perhaps the baby's as well, considering he was drinking a lot and had become vi0l3nt with her
Kudos to that judge that took the right and decent decision to keep the confession.
How in the hell does anyone defend someone that buried a 16 month old baby and throws the mother on top of her?!!!
Sixth Amendment. All defendants in a criminal trial have the right to a lawyer to represent them.
@@brigidtheirish yes I know that, but still, how do they find anyone willing to defend them?
@@charleylee4651 Sometimes they're assigned the job. Especially if the lawyer is a public defender.
@brigidtheirish that would be one of the hardest jobs,I could imagine doing, especially either knowing or thinking they are guilty.
@@charleylee4651 Yeah. I honestly feel bad for a lot of public defenders. They probably go into the job thinking about the "if you cannot afford an attorney, one will be appointed for you" and want to make sure that poor people get good counsel so they aren't railroaded into unjust convictions. Then they end up having to represent some real-life version of Norman Bates.
Thank you for the video. I was kin to one of these families. Some wounds never heal. 🙏
So that guy is still rotting in prison I hope?
My sincerest condolences
@@Fairlight53 Thank you!!
So sorry for your loss.
Some wounds never heal is very true. They just happened longer ago every day.
@@carolyn6001 Thank you so much 💓
The lawyer is so upset - not because his client signed a confession - but the money was an issue, but the fame as well. Shame on him.
This precious baby's name was actually Kori Rae ❤️
I relate to the fathers frustrations with his lip-flapping neighbors. I grew up in a community where gossip was the only real entertainment for some.
That lawyer incensed me! How could he go on about they should have contacted him. Why? So he could try and get him off. That monster buried a baby alive. Omg. I want to shake the hand of his father for doing the right thing.
That lawyer should go to hell with that murderer.
I think this was a serial killer in the making. I also think the robbery was an excuse to do what he really wanted: kill. You don’t stab a woman, bury her with her child…alive…and keep her wedding ring and news paper clippings as trophies…unless you’re a psychopathic predator. Had he been released he would’ve gone on to kill again.
Surely any robber would knock and the door first to see if anyone was home. Also he was a neighbour, he would know that her car was there. He went in with a knife!
Great point.
You 100٪ have nailed it!!
The defence lawyer is a heartless pos
And that's putting it politely.
So is the murderer.
Defense*
@@Mischa21xoIf the poster is British or from a Commonwealth country, “defence” is correct. The more you know… 💫
@@Mischa21xo we do speak and write correct English outside of America...just so you know...defence is correct
He buried the baby alive????
Pure evil.
Death penalty for sure.
Nope. HE has rights. And those rights were violated 🤦🏻♀️😂🤣😂🤯
Staggering. Just staggeringly ridiculous.
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I don't understand why he even killed the baby, it's not like a 1.5 year old could have harmed in self-defence, or identified him.
So so sad that the dad of baby and husband of wife looked in fields and wells for his lil family
Sometimes I think defence attorneys have no morals. Knowing this scumbag murdered an innocent mother and 18 month year old and still tried to get him off!
big difference between trying to get him off as you put it and sparing his life...btw the death sentence was commuted back in 2005
It's their duty to obtain whatever advantages the law allows for their clients. They're not allowed to judge their clients, that's the jury's duty. Without this deontological burden there's no guarantee of justice. If you don't like a law, you ask the parliament to modify it.
Since when is it the responsibility of the cops to get in touch with an offenders lawyer?
What a monster. How did he get like that? He appears to have had a very good father, who I admire and feel extremely sorry for. So sad for Maggie and for Cory Ray. I can't begin to imagine what they both went through. And poor Lynsey Owens. In my view, the death penalty was the right outcome. The nonsense about being denied the right to counsel was legal mumbo jumbo. The police and the DA did everything right.
Its a game and a competition to the lawyers and it looks good on their resume. They don't care about society or the victims and only care about themselves. That's a given.
Death sentence was commuted to life in prison back in 2005
@@mikerichardson60 no way that s l e gal system for ya.
@mikerichardson60 thank you for update.
All this over a record player, a ring, and some cash and probably not much cash out that! You can’t even wrap your mind around that this kid is one sick piece of work
It’s just shocking and ridiculous how so many of them were so concerned about this monster’s right after he admitted committing such a unthinkable crime!
U have to, otherwise he might have a case for dismissal. Anything not by the book and you giving the defensive an upper hand
Yes actually
That’s why society is crumbling. So often the offender is treated better than the victim and family. I blame the non-justice system
Evil that's what he is .
There is always divorce ,it's not easy but at least both are alive .
That defence attorney believes his own lies, how do you defend someone that you know is guilty and just a thoroughly nasty human being! How do they sleep?
It' s their job.
They give the best defense they can.
@@missypuffin8985that just makes them a pos who sells their integrity for a paycheck and prestige. Yuck!
Yuck
@@suzannegriffiths4795 ...no you ignorant 🐄. Its what makes the United States a free and equal Country. Its in the Constitution..but im thinking you failed that course in high school. Im sorry youre ignorant. No, really I am
💰💲💰💲💰💲💰💲💰💲💰💲💰💲is how defence lawyer focused
I wished the lawyer could be sued for emotional damages. The killer is the villain but the lawyer is the super villain
I used to believe demons were a myth and that no way people could be possessed by them. I've changed my mind.
No. Satan and his demons truly exist. That's why horrible thing's happen
Remember. The whole world is laying in the power of the wicked ones. 😢
They don't. This was no possession, this was what some HUMANS really are. Seeking supernatural explanations for human evil means not wanting to face and accept the truth that many humans don't need to be possessed - they ARE evil. It is human nature, human illness and human disorder. Superstition and religious fanaticism are a nice way out, but humans don't need demons to be evil.
Some humans ARE inhumane.
He kept a trophy, the ring. He would have murdered again if they didn't arrest him. Just sickening!
What an admirable father!
Common sense prevailed. RIP Maggie and Cori Ray.
I can’t help but wonder if some defense attorneys defend clients poorly on purpose because they want to see the person get the justice they deserve?
He was asked if he wanted an attorney?? Wth??? He was not a minor at that point, either.
It boggles my mind how a defense lawyer can defend a man who would bury a baby alive under her dead mother who was murdered by the defendant. How does this defense lawyer sleep at night without being haunted by the thought? Perhaps that is why he is eating his way to an early demise.
This lawyer KNEW he did it ! HOW does anyone defend such a vile evil man KNOWING he could be out on the street to do it again!
43:23
The defense lawyer is absolutely unbelievable. He finds it horrible that Cobbs admitted to doing the murder. He’s like should’ve got away with this if he wouldn’t have said anything, and he calls him a boy and 19 year-old boy that’s a man he’s 18 and then the lawyer says you know there’s something wrong with them not calling me another words he told the truth, the suspect told the truth and the lawyer found it offensive unbelievable
You couldn't possibly have any humanity or morals or value for life and become a criminal lyer, oh I mean not 100% innocent lives!
That's not necessary his point. A confession can be offered for a plea deal. Same with helping to find the body. That chap made a very cheap bargain with the police, they offered him to talk to his girlfriend... while, had he talked to a lawyer, he could have negotiate a plea deal.
Basically, there was nothing left for the defense lawyer to work with. Of course he was upset.
That devil threw a live toddler, who would have been terrified having seen her mother killed, into an open grave, and threw her mother on top of her then buried her alive. He threw the spade into the pond and went home to his pregnant girlfriend. I’ve never in my life heard anything so terrible.
What about vindication for what was done to Maggie and that sweet baby Mr. Ridley? I honestly don't know how defense attorneys live with themselves attempting to save a person who did what he did to that mother and child. I always wonder if these people like Mr Ridley ever for one second imagine that the victims were their own family member.
Ridley and those like him might be singing a different tune if one of their loved ones suffered the same fate as the mother and baby.
@@adotintheshark4848 It's one thing to be a defense attorney representing someone when you believe in your clients innocence but it's totally disgusting for Mr. Ridley to become outraged about the killers rights and want to help a person who has admitted to such a horrendous murder of a mother and burying that poor baby alive. Mr. Ridley just might as well been there helping his client the day of their murders and at the very least tried to help him get out of prison on a technicality to allow him to have more innocent victims. If you ask me there isn't much difference between Mr. Ridley and his client. Neither of them have a soul.
I agree. That murderous little creep doesn't deserve to live. The defence attorney must do his job because the right to a fair trial is a corner stone of justice, but in this case Ridley needs to examine his conscience. He manipulated the system. He did not serve justice. I'm glad he failed - and was actually instrumental in setting precedent.
you'll get no argument from me. A good defense attorney should try for the lightest sentence his client can get, the attorney shouldn't try to get them off on a technicality especially since they know they're guilty. If you asked Ridley if he thought Raymond was guilty, he won't tell you.@@justice2251
@@justice2251 he was at the time a minor, not an adult! anyway since 28 years on deathrow....what a waste...was cheaper to the community if he received life in prison!
It's one thing to provide a defence - it's quite another to use a technicality in an attempt to free a grotesque murderer. That is surely going beyond the bounds of duty?
Kudos to his father
Those defense attorneys need to be in jail.
So he stabbed her in her home and theres no Blood? he didnt have to return and do a clean up? Thats interesting. Its more likely he walked them out there and deleted her in the woods. No way there wasnt blood left at the scene if she was punctured that many times. X to doubt on his confession being truthful.
Was wondering about that too, don't understand why it wasn't mentioned .
I always have respect for parents who turn in their kids even when it's a horrific crime. Your first instinct is to protect your children even when they've done wrong. I would like to believe I would do the same. You never know until you're in that situation yourself. It couldn't be easy for him to reconcile the love he has for his son with the monster his son became.
R I P Maggie and cori Ray 💜🇦🇺
The attorney was livid, because he missed out on money.
Thank goodness his father told the Truth this monster belongs where he was going, took her ring as a Trophy to look at remind him of his crime like it was a excitement back to his DISGUSTING CRIME
That scumbag attorney at 36 minute mark. I was upset i wasnt contacted. His client knew the law. His miranda rights were read. BS
I saw this case before. The little boy was buried alive. I'll never forget it. Inexcusable!
The baby was a girl. They said her daughter. She also has a dress on.
Her name was Cory Rae. Guess you did forget...
she might have been trans@@RepentfollowJesus
Unforgivable and unforgiven!!! May the souls of baby Cory Ray and Mom, find peace, now their heartless slayer were meted the death penalty.
@@jennifernavarro795 😭
I hope that lawyer never sleeps a full night the rest of his life
This evil monster buried a toddler alive!!!!!! 🤬🤬🤬
How does anyone bury a defenceless baby alive, cannot get my head round it. R.I.P mum n baby. Such an awful heartbreaking case.
This is interesting. The tender ego-driven feelings of the defendant’s attorney were wounded, but throwing out that confession for that reason would have been a miscarriage of justice of the grossest kind, justice that needs to be administered in a special Huntsville facility. This case is a fabulous example of the rubble that comprises our judicial system.
Where did this young man learned how to be so evil with the decent father he has? It's beyond me, 🤦. I won't forget this case for as long as I live. That poor baby and mama didn't deserve this. Nobody does, 😭. I can tell that detective was very affected by this case. Evil as good as they come, 😡
His father lived 500 miles away I think, he only lived with him after the crime
Yes, I can see how wonderful it is for that attorney to get the man who killed a woman and buried her child ALIVE out of his murder conviction.
45:05
Listen to this defense, lawyer, bona fide, legal defense issues he’s like saying “I forbid you to tell the truth” unbelievable only in America
Well look at the man. He's obviously delusional if he thinks wearing his thinning hair long & in a ponytail is a good look.
@@brandyjean7015
totally agree!!👍🏻
This is just absolutely heartbreaking. He caused so many people so much pain. I don’t even want to think about that poor baby. Why kill her? She couldn’t identify him. Then his young girlfriend was about to have a baby. It’s just too much. Oh, and Cobb’s death sentence was commuted to life in 2005.
The callous barbarity of the murder of that small innocent doesn't just cry to Heaven for justice. It screams for it. It's the same for all infanticide, either before or after birth.
Now that he’s in prison his baby will be safe!!!
Will have to live with what his father did. Do you think the baby won’t find out eventually. It will really screw them up
David Weeks really humanised the whole case. The fathers were so dignified in this episode. Respect to both.
I feel that a long life time in prison is preferable to a quick death. He's young, he has DECADES to contemplate that he will never get out. He will never walk in the forest, or swim in the sea again. He has a living death to look forward to. DECADES of just being in a grey cell.
His sentence was changed to life in 2005
No because then the tax payer has to keep hi safe in jail and feed him and give him free board for the rest of his life
@johaysom1496 Is it a free board and lodgings you would like? Probably not, so we'll worth the price.
47:30
How can his sixth amendment be violated if he was read the Miranda rights that says “you have the right to an attorney and you have the right to stop talking” huh? Explain that.
The lawyer argued that the two cases related (burglary and murder) and police is not allowed to question a criminal about an ongoing case without the knowledge of their lawyer. The argument of the defense lawyer had legal basis but the judge ruled the two cases were separate. Which is rather interesting, because, had they had enough evidence for the murder in time, I'm sure he would have been charged with both at once. I think the judge's decision was influenced by him knowing what was at stake.
I'm not sure how it's related to the sixth amendment though...
@:28 - worst Miranda warning reading ever! 😂
Damn, that lawyer was desperate for publicity, wasn't he? Your client was mirandized. YOU are not the main focus of this case, nor is the killer really ... The Mother and Child are the ONLY people of focus here ... I understand that everyone has a right to a defense - but your client admitted to taking the life of two precious people who had done nothing to deserve it - while sentencing the husband/father to a life sentence with no such guarantees ... Victims have Rights Too !
Can you imagine being 9 months pregnant - and the father of your baby - while, ok, he's been not the best guy - gets arrested right in front of you for capitol murder?! including A BABY?!!
Defense attorneys are the devil’s right hand men !!!!! How do they defend the creeps then go home and hug their own kids ??
Because, sometimes, it turns out that the "creeps" are not the bad guy. You'll understand it if you ever charged falsely.
Such a cruel killer if he got away with this murder I think he would have gone on to commit more.
I think his Girlfriend was lucky to be rid of that POS, Prob saved hers and her babies life.
Doesnt the defense attorney understand Miranda himself? Right to an attorney doesnt mean cops have to call his previous case lawyer, if the defendant doesnt ask it.
I wonder how this sleaze-bag defense attorney would feel if he or his child was burried alive? I wonder if he would think about his Miranda rights then?
Its Kori Rae Owings. At least get description right.
If Margaret was stabbed in the house wouldn't there have been blood there? And why not just leave the sleeping baby where she was? Why bury her too? And if you're going in to steal things why not make sure no one's home? Margaret's car was right outside.
I think there's more to this story than he's telling
I think he knew she was in there and wanted to kill her. It's telling that he kept her ring. Keeping a possession of the victim is something serial killers do. They re-live the crime in their imagination when they look at or touch the object.
Agree.
Thank God for these diligent detectives and prosecutors.
That lawyer tried to get this monster off.
I want to know one thing how in the hell does that defense attorney, knowing his client buried an infant alive, sleep at night?😡👎🏻
I want to know one thing: what the heck do you understand about the job of the defense attorneys? 🙄
How could the defense lawyer sleep at night
Probably quite well. Something has to be wrong with you to defend a demonic killer like that…and call him “boy.” What an evil attorney.
He is definitely POS no 2, I could not do a job that involved getting low life murderess off knowing they were guilty as hell.
I bet 90 to nothin this young man came on to her, and she rejected him..robbery was an afterthought
“ the mother accidentally ran into the knife in his hand, and the baby accidentally rolled into the freshly dug grave”
No, criminal history! there's always a 1st time.
1st time he was caught being a criminal.
Exactly and you mean a first time for getting caught right!!
How do these lawyers sleep at night! Horrible!!!
same for district attorneys that hand out plea deals all day long to pad their stats while doing nothing to protect the public and parole boards that more often then not let violent criminals back out on the streets before their tap on the hand sentence is over
That lawyer LACKS A CONSCIENCE. And will be held accountable for it...someday.
Judging from how little neck he had, likely burning down under and it’s not Australia I am speaking of.
Fighting for a man you believe is innocent is one thing. Fighting to free a man you already know is guilty? That’s a whole other thing. If he had committed another crime as heinous as his first, the lawyers should be charged as well.
I feel sick .....that he is proud as punch that he got a man off death row that gave a baby the most torturous death....and made her mother a murderer as she squashed her to death
Them turning that over would indicate your miranda rights mean nothing as he was given them and they were still able to overturn. Crazy
Regarding the Petry homicide: How serendipitous it was that the librarian happened to find that open book and, instead of just shutting it and putting it on the shelf, she started reading the open pages and remembered the question about Petry’s cause of death. And how stupid Rydbom was to have left the book open. Amazing coincidence! And the jury got it right.
What a disgusting lawyer, like his defendent
These lawyers are just as much trash as the person that did the crime in my opinion
Everyone is entitled to an aggressive defense. If a client chooses to to waive those rights-he then takes his chances. For any defense attorney to be upset that HE wasn’t called before the client chooses to speak without one sounds like he lives in an alternate society. For then for it to be thrown out it seems as those on the court also live in an alternate society. Just disgusting.
I got attacked for saying basically the same thing There are so many innocent people accused of a crime and it's these same attorneys that go to court for them . I'm not defending the accused in this case, but everyone in the USA deserves an attorney. It's funny that people hate those attorneys until someone in their family needs one and then suddenly they are okay with them
Another stupid pathetic defense attorney that only wants his murdering client to get off.
He was GUILTY! Where are the rights of that woman and her baby?!?!?
Well i am so glad that the defense attorney feels vindicated … 47:20 f’k how the dad of that innocent baby feels right you the one who was buried alive!!!! 😖 i CAN NOT STAND A DEFENSE ATTORNEY !!!!!
if he didnt tell on himself this would still be a cold case
5:23 - The burglar took the VCR and the cash, but left that camera? Seems unlikely to me. It's also very funny that the neighbor kid is standing outside by his car every goddamned time they approach him😁
IT WASN'T UP TO THE POLICE TO CALL THE MURDERS LAWER!
Doesn’t that stupid lawyer of Cobb’s realize he buried the baby alive!! Has he no conscience!! Prayers to the mother and baby daughter the husband and loved ones🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏RIP❤❤
The entire legal conondrum about the penalty for double murder that Cobb's lawyer staged was based on him not having been called and involved when Cobb confessed. It was all about his ego, because it is more than obvious that the attorney felt slighted and insulted that everything took place without his presence, even though 1. he was NOT Cobb's attorney any more at that time, 2. Cobb WAS asked and declined having an attorney present, 3. Cobb obviously didn't consider him his attorney any more, 4. the investigators are under no legal obligation to search for and call suspects' previous lawyers, especially if the suspect themselves don't ask for them and 5. the attorney was NOT designated as Cobb's legal representation for every future offense and his legal representation has ended with Cobb's previous case. His argument was just as absurd as if a police detective would try to argue the legality of any other detective investigating fresh crimes of his previous suspects, or if a traffic policeman would insist that they must be in charge of every parking ticket issued to someone whom they gave their first parking ticket years ago. The smug smile on Cobb's defence attorney's face as he describes the validity of his arguments when the sentence was briefly overturned, without ever mentioning that it was reinstated again by a higher court, clearly proves that it was all an empty legal theatre, and only about Cobb's lawyer's ego, money and fame. The crime itself and the horrid inhumanity were of no importance to the lawyer, and he would've been absolutely fine with letting a confessed baby murderer walk free and unpunished to soothe his own ego. It is truly horrible that the law can (and is) abu$ed like this to validate greedy and/or egocentric lawyer's needs and whims, instead of being used only to punish the criminals and protect the society from them.
Respect to Charles Cobb. That must've been the most difficult call a father had to make, but it only shows that coming from a good family is not always a guarantee of being sane and humane.
So sad. Bright young lady. Had all her life ahead of her. That monster must pay the price.
The police are obligated to make a lawyer available, if requested, but not to pursue a lawyer for the perpetrator.
Don’t get me started on that defence lawyer…
Despicable!! Getting that piece of filth off the hook for killing a mother and burying a baby alive! Unbelievable!! Thank God the Supreme Court overturned the appeal.
If Margaret was stabbed in the house, that means she was bleeding. Why wasnt there evidence in the house?
Good question. I have many questions about this case. He allegedly dragged her body to the forest. How did police not spot the mark of this on the ground? How did he manage to drag her body AND carry a sleeping 16 month old baby at once? Why would he remove a baby from the house who cannot testify and is only an extra weigh?
Where did he break into the house and how did he not leave fingerprints?
The case was so blooming weak, I wonder how on earth was he convicted by the jury.
Wondering the same thing. They did not see any blood?
@@veraboltonit was NOT WEAK. He had her VCR and her wedding ring he gave them. He showed them the place where he buried them. He confessed to his dad.
@@natalijaasbjornsen8827 You forgot to answer my questions 🤔
There was no negligence by the olice. They read him his Miranda rights that also contain the option to have an attorney present. And if he couldn't afford an attorney, one will be appointed. What part of that reading is hard to understand! It was the defendant who was responsible for then saying yes or no for an attorney. He was well versed in the procedure because he already had a record. 🙄
That last case had so much reasonable doubt that I'm surprised the jury found him guilty.
Agree. I think it was ridiculous when that man held the bra and knew it for sure that it was the victims. I mean... did this really happen in a court room? 😳
I see a lot of people condemn defense lawyers here.
Yes, Mr. Ridley was insufferable. And often when watching these videos I can't stand these lawyers. But they are an important part of the Justice system that none of us can deny.
Rather than defending a client they absolutely believe to be innocent or because they like their client, they are there to make sure cases are solved and prosecuted by the book, so that no innocents go to jail. They also make sure that, in case of the guilty, punishment is adequate and the prosecution did not cut any corners. There are quite a few innocent ppl in prison who would have needed a good defense laywer. And all of that's ignoring the fact that convictions with a good defense are more likely to survive future appeals. So defense attorneys do, in fact, help substancially with keeping guilty POS in prison reliably.
It doesn't matter how much we hate defense attorneys, we need them to keep our system in check and prevent it from derailing. Because just as much as the defense has a goal, so does the prosecution. In both these cases the prosecution and police involved did an excellent job. But it's not always that way. And when you're actually involved in the case the situation might not be as black and white as we think it to be from the outside. Both the prosecution and the defense may exaggerate or downplay what happened quite a bit, as it lends to their respective goals to do so. Discerning who is lying, exaggerating or telling the truth might become very challenging, and I don't think many of us would be able to keep a clear head on either side, be that as the defense or the prosecution.
That's just how it is. Thank god some ppl are willing to do this job, cause they are needed, no matter what we think.
I still think Mr. Ridley is an arrogant, self-gratifying POS though, for the record.
😢 this is sooo heartbreaking!!!
God the part about the child ffs it didn't witness anything