she s never gave up on me. i started investigating his case. and every time i would look into something, i would discover, well, hang on. that s not as they said it was at trial. that doesn t flesh out. then you realize, wait, we have an innocent guy here. the prosecution s key evidence against james duckett was pubic hair that had been found in teresa mcabee s underwear. neither beth wells nor marshall frank were buying it. duckett was accused of sexually assaulting her. one of the things that troubled me a lot is that the prosecution was saying that the pubic hair inside her panties was from the killer, but it wasn t uncommon for teresa to put her mommy s panties on. so maybe that pubic hair was already there in those panties. the records show the prosecution took unusual steps to connect the pubic hair to duckett. the sheriff s department had been with the hair analysis shopping it around.
this alibi would be very good. there was no reason for his attorney not to produce this in court as a defense. but if duckett was innocent, how could frank explain the pubic hair found in teresa mcabee s underwear? pubic hair that an fbi forensic analyst said matched james duckett s. mike malone was an long-time fbi expert. malone took a look at it and said it was indistinguishable from duckett s hair. marshall frank wasn t so sure. what he soon learned about fbi expert mike malone would further convince him that duckett was innocent. overall, it stunk to high heaven. the whole thing stunk.
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teresa mcabee s autopsy revealed she had been sexually assaulted and strangled to death. a pubic hair was also found in her underwear. we got a court order and took samples from duckett. that s when it came back for positive identification. a policeman who may have been the last person to see 11-year-old teresa mcabee alive is under investigation himself tonight. i couldn t believe it. he was supposed to serve and protect the community. she probably thought, well, he s a police officer. he ll take me home. but that never happened. residents are outraged. you teach your children to go to a police officer if they are in trouble or need help. despite the community uproar, police chief mike brady who had hired and mentored duckett held fast in his belief that investigators were focusing on the wrong man. my confidence in him hadn t
people always want to believe that somebody is innocent but it is really dangerous years after the fact to get a new trial for somebody, for some legal flaw like maybe his lawyer didn t work hard enough or maybe some witness was unreliable. in fact, gwen gurley, who recanted her original testimony against jim duckett now claims she was coerced into recanting by an investigator work for the duckett family. he was at my house. if i was hanging up clothes he was behind the clothesline. he was always around. he never let my life at peace. so i told him what he wanted to hear to leave me alone. what he told me happened, i said okay, it happened. the only reason i even agreed to do this interview was just on record to let it be known that the last time i saw teresa mcabee, she was in james