found and that any one will ever be convicted of the the murders of these four young girls? let s ask our panel. guys, thanks for being with us this evening. now, steve, they say that this case where scott and springsteen were convicted that there is no evidence connecting them to the scene of the crime other than a confession. do you think there is additional evidence here? your honor the fact of the matter is that the one suspect, murderer by the way, not a crook, is is specific in the number of shots and how the shots were fired. how would this person know this part of the crime if they weren t at the scene? judge jeanine: do you agree with that, guys? when i was listening to the defense attorney i thought what he was going to be saying is
pierce, wellborn, scott and springsteen but then you cut them loose. why? we got to the point we couldn t go any further with them. we brought them in because maurice got caught with a .22 caliber pistol within three or four blocks of the crea crime . we weren t able to do anything on the ballistics to match it up. in the briefing maurice implicated the other three. so we were under an obligation to investigate his statement. we wired up maurice and he met with a wire to go talk to a couple of the others. it was pretty obvious for us and it was is pretty obvious listening to the wire that forest didn t have any idea what he was talking about but we went ahead and brought them all in, took statements from them and investigated them as far as we could go, as far as we could match up with what evidence we had and just reached the point we couldn t
interrogation that he got scared and basically he told them what h they wanted to hear and he believed he was involved involvement. come up with a judge jeanine: how is it that he was threatened. it was is a subtle threat and to give context to this. this case was tried in 2002. i missed the threat but here was what the threat was. he was told look we know you are involved in the crime and that is going to happen you know what a grand jury is we will take you to a grand jury and we are going to tell them what we know and you know that if you lie to them you are are going to go to jail or prison. judge jeanine: what i don t understand. is he when came in aa cording to the court record said that i have now confessed to my father and my best friend patrick davidson before he actually confessed to police. i mean doesn t that have a ring of truth to it it? i already told my father i did
it a y dna basically the y chromosome should eliminate the background dna information from the female victim. judge jeanine: what do you think has got to be done here, guys. first of all, urn, the police are going to have to go back and do a lot of interviewing. the backgrounds of these young ladies. who they knew and who was friendly to them. this looks like to me a carefully methodical execution. sob sur veiled the place and knew when they were going to do this and knew they had to get rid of the evidence. not everyone know thousands do that. they have to take a good look at what they already looked at. judge jeanine: and that is what they are going to do. joey hit the nail about the dna banks. even in new york the most minimal crime you jumped the turn style and now have to give an sample of your dna. it may be two, four years where it is a a match.