he was uninjured so was his brother and sister. we assumed it was the perpetrator s blood. police files rerule that the carjacker s blood had been collected from the victim s pants. i went to the evidence room and i see that the pants were checked out by one of the d.a. s and not returned. i m like, hello? if they were so sure that john thomson was the carjacker, you would have tested his blood and gone tada, waived your crime lab report around the courtroom. that would have been your nail. i knew that something was going on that was very unscrupulous and was deliberate. deliberate. the defense was never told that the blood had been tested. so that revealed quite a bit about the prosecutors that had been handling thompson s case. my next move is to go to the crime lab. and act you can t tip off people who work for the police department you are on to
contacted me. with john thompson scheduled to be executed in less than a month, defense investigator elisa abolafia desperately searched for answers. i was a nervous wreck, john was facing an execution date may 20th. i began with the carjacking case. first, i read the police report. in 1985, john thompson was convicted of carjacking three teenagers at gun point. without that conviction, thompson would have been much less likely to get the death sentence for the murder. elisa found reports from the first officer to respond to the carjacking scene. warren pope. when we got there, i noticed spots of fresh blood. one of the victims shoes had blood on his shoes and pants legs. he was uninjured so was his brother and sister. we assumed it was the perpetrator s blood. police files rerule that the carjacker s blood had been collected from the victim s
perpetrator s blood. he was uninjured so was his brother and sister. we assumed it was the perpetrator s blood. police files rerule that the carjacker s blood had been collected from the victim s pants. i went to the evidence room and i see that the pants were checked out by one of the d.a. s and not returned. i m like, hello? if they were so sure that john thompson was the carjacker, you would have tested his blood and gone tada, waived your crime lab report around the courtroom. that would have been your nail. i knew that something was going on that was very unscrupulous and was deliberate. deliberate. the defense was never told that the blood had been tested. so that revealed quite a bit about the prosecutors that had been handling thompson s case. my next move is to go to the crime lab. and act you can t tip off people who work for the police department you are on to something naughty. i just go in and go, i need to see this old report, please. i then get the crime lab re