this guy. i have no reason to trust him. i don t know where he is coming from. from jim s point of view, maybe this will be the person who is able to get somebody to listen. with the case at a dead end and duckett headed toward execution, marshall frank had an idea. he said i ve got a friend that used to work for the miami herald. and i had read edna buchanan s stories before over the years. and so i knew who the name was. and so i felt excited. edna buchanan was a pulitzer prize winning crime reporter for the miami herald. an outstanding reporter, one of the best i ve ever known. i wanted to tell her what the story was that i had for james ducat. marshall frank kept calling me. i had known him. he had been a source of mine over the years and he said he found this case where he is convinced the man on death row was innocent. i was dubious because if the wrong person is convicted it is usually someone who is poor, minorities, not a white cop. and i kept saying, well, how
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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
fdle, the florida department of law enforcement had told them, nope. ain t nothing there. fdle said that hair was probably not mine. 28 out of 30 characteristics didn t match the hair. nope, ain t nothing there. they said we can t do it because there is no root. the state of dna testing at the time was we can t do anything with it. we went to the fbi. because they re the mac daddy of labs. and we asked them to take a look at it. mike malone is the fbi expert. he tested it and he comes up and says oh, yeah, this is jim duckett s hair, microscopically consistent. so you have the preeminent investigative agency in the country saying it is jim duckett s hair. that s powerful evidence to a jury. there is no question they re going on believe that. with advanced dna science not
we don t have a full name for him. there were always a lot of people around that home that didn t live there. like a little gathering. there were always more guys than girls. there was a lot of stuff to raise suspicion, you have an 11-year-old female child in the house. i think the person who was harassing teresa at home killed her, dressed her, and took her and dumped her in the lake. once they honed in on jim duckett, they stopped looking for other suspects and that s not good police work. wells also called gwen gurley to testify. the only eyewitness who placed teresa in duckett s patrol car had recanted her original testimony. if they used gwen gurley as a key witness to put me here and if she s no longer telling their lies, that should count for something. i can remember when we talked to gwen. this is great stuff. she s recanted. she s the only person that saw the victim in the car.
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