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(agent) i ll walk you guys through every step. (dad) so if we sell, do you think we can swing it? (agent) i have the numbers right here and based on the comps that i ve found, the timing is perfect. .there s a lot of buyers for a house like yours. (dad) that s good to know. (mom) i m so excited. duckett was on death row for the murder of 11-year-old teresa mcabee when retired miami homicide detective marshall frank began corresponding with him. i just wanted to see if this needed to be investigated further. if there is an innocent man on death row. i had no problem punishing people for doing a terrible crime. i put many away myself. but this guy may have been
at that point we had his car impounded and we found the child s prints all over the car, the hood of the car. of course we didn t want to believe a police officer would do this. 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.
i was the chief of police for the city of mascotte. mascotte, florida, a small, poor community, about 1,700 residents. maybe a quarter of them are seasonal. migrant workers. i was working the school that morning. then i got contacted by a resident. he said i went down to the lake to go fishing and he said, i m not sure but i think there s a body in the water. he said, a little girl. the body was floating face down. the feet were touching the shoreline and her arms were spread out. police identified the victim as 11-year-old teresa mcabee. she had last been seen the previous evening around 10:00 p.m. at a circle k convenience store located just 400 feet from her home. she told me she had to do her
he will me he could not have been there at the murder because he got a call from the jiffy stop, another convenience store in a different part of town. so he went over there around the time the little girl was being murdered. he jotted everything down in his little spiral log book. time, activity, traffic stop. the notebook has her information in it. that i wrote down that night. i said did that log sheet get introduced into trial? he said no. he said, i don t know what happened to it. it was confiscated from him by the police. they took notebook when they impounded the patrol car. the notebook s got teresa s information that i wrote down at 10:30 that night and then at 11:00, i was at the jiffy store. how can you be assaulting teresa and be at a well being check at the same time? they could have went and spoke to the clerk and confirmed that. 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 in