34-year-old kevin barr was at a bar and he said he was at a bar. he recognized a suspect from a may incident in which police say a man with thick glasses, long hair and a moustache made sexual comments to an 11-year-old girl. martin is a meteorologist with more than 70,000 followers. they washed him when the sketch was released that it looked exactly like him so he called police who confirmed he is not a suspect. dna may finally bring closure to a rape case that was cold for 36 years. a florida woman woke up to a stranger sexually assaulting her in coral springs in 1983. dna was collected at the scene but technology available at the time could not identify a suspect. the case went cold until the victim reached out to police in march after seeing stories of dna being used to solve cases. in june using updated technology
i want the world to know that i m not a murderer. that means more than anything to me because i ve still got family that are being you know, they re suffering because of this. why would i kill her? i loved her more than anything in this world. i mean, and not only that, but scooter and randy, why kill them? you can t find a single person that truthfully will tell you that skinner never laid a hand on them. one of the things that struck me in talking to him was that there was a likely alternative suspect, robert danell. bob danell served time for grand larceny and also twyla s uncle. his name is robert dennell. everybody called him uncle bob. skinner s attorney introduced him as an alternate suspect at the original trial. hank claimed he walked in on uncle bob trying to rape twyla
jail too. did hank confess to you to killing the twyla and those boys? no, he did not. so he told some stories that you didn t believe any of them were a confession? no. for hank s trial, prosecutors had flown andrea to fort worth and put her in a motel. andrea told emily it was like being under house arrest. in a sworn affidavit in 1997 andrea reed came out and said she felt threatened by police to give a certain story. she was worried that they could place her at the murder scene. so she was willing to play by their script. then we went down to texas death row to interview hank skinner. it was intimidating. being, gosh, what was i? barely legal to drink and here i was on texas death row. when he came to talk to us one of the first things i remember was how articulate he was.
outlet wanted it. nancy grace invited us on for an interview. welcome to pros and cons, david protest, professor, i know blood spatter evidence. how could this guy have gotten blood spatters on his shirt if he wasn t there when the crime was committed? he doesn t deny being there. he was unconscious, toxicology reports confirm this. my students conducted interviews who suggest strongly that twila busby s uncle could have been the killer. he was completely checked out. you re taunting skinner and a bunch of other dopers. that s what you ve got. skinn skinner did it and he got the death penalty. mr. mann, i m sorry, a bloody set of fingerprints were found on a bag containing the knife. will you join me in requesting the court conduct dna evidence before a possibly innocent man is put to death? gentlemen and emily, i m
reasonable doubt. particularly in a capital murder case. it s worth the time i think and it s worth the money. the alternative is unthinkable. when i add together the very best possible arguments that mr. skinner s supporters make such as the court reporter s dna being found on the knife handle, such as the missing gray windbreaker, it still seems to me like if you wake up and find your girlfriend dead on the floor in front of you and her child is dead in his bed you wouldn t immediately go to your narcotics anonymous sponsor s house. you d call the police. i don t know what happened that night, and it haunts me to this day. when we still don t have the truth 20-some-odd years later, this is the system run amok. i m not accusing the local authorities of conspiring to frame a man that they believe or know is innocent.