next day. i told alvin, i said, whatever you do, tell me the truth. i said, if you did it, that s all right. we ll figure out how to handle it. but, i said, whatever you do, tell me the truth. alvin now told his lawyer that he didn t kill tinky. he reverted to his original story, the one he told the coast guard the day after the storm, that tinky s death was an accident. i had to prove to a jury that he was vulnerable and very capable of confessing to something he didn t do. man, you would not believe how strong there is amongst people and the public that you wouldn t confess to something you wouldn t do. why would you confess to something you didn t do? to find out, barbee showed the entire eight hours of alvin s police interviews to dr. jill hayes-hammer, a forensic psychologist from the lsu school of medicine. come on, alvin! what happened? you don t know everything you say, do you know anything? you couldn t swim for 14 hours,
convinced that alvin latham s taped confession had been coerced. but why did the coroner rule tinky s death a homicide? in looking at the autopsy findings, barbee discovered the coroner did not know the depth of the so-called knife wounds. the coroner never measured them, never dissected them, never checked them for the angle. from the photographs, dr. cyril wecht, an independent forensic pathologist, didn t believe these were stab wounds at all. expect all or at least some of the wounds to have had some significant depth of penetration. we do not have that in this case. hence, i do not believe that these were stab wounds. but if they weren t stab wounds, what were they? when you think of a propeller and a portion of it striking some part of the body, then it is easy to understand how you can get these kinds of injuries.
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convinced that alvin latham s taped confession had been coerced. but why did the coroner rule tinky s death a homicide? in looking at the autopsy findings, barbee discovered the coroner did not know the depth of the so-called knife wounds. the coroner never measured them, never dissected them, never checked them for the angle. from the photographs, dr. cyril wecht, an independent forensic pathologist, didn t believe these were stab wounds at all. expect all or at least some of the wounds to have had some significant depth of penetration. we do not have that in this case. hence, i do not believe that these were stab wounds. but if they weren t stab
the triple choice sale, on now at sleep train. sleep train your ticket to a better night s sleep as alvin latham sat in jail on a murder charge, everyone in venice, louisiana, was talking about what happened or didn t happen the night tinky leiker died. everyone debated it. two people, one lifejacket. what would i do? would i share it? you d like to think you d share it. but would you? since alvin was a man of limited means, the court appointed attorney peter barbee to defend him. barbee couldn t understand why alvin would have killed the captain over a lifejacket, yet wasn t wearing it when he was