the blood was spilled around the time michele disappeared. to have forensic scientists get up and speculate and guess at how old blood was based on the color from a photograph is an outrageously unsupported proposition. also out, hearsay testimony from prosecution witnesses who said michele told them that cal threatened her life. we don t think they belong in the evidence. it s part of the reason the case was unfair the first time, the second time. then the defense attempted to present its evidence about that alternate suspect, stacy stewart. and the judge shut them down. the jury would only be allowed to hear stewart s name, that michele knew him, that kevin tubbs had idded him and he owned a black truck at the time. no more. why? because stacy stewart wasn t on trial. cal harris was. the wrong man, his attorneys insisted. cal did not deserve to be on trial and frankly michele and
true. did that have anything to do with it as far as people can tell? people have to protect their story without looking any deeper and saying, is this really accurate? so had the idaho falls police taken a false confession, put the wrong man in prison and failed to find the real killer? no, that just wasn t true said the former detective and later mayor jared furhman. how does he know? it was furhman who took tapp to visit the crime scene, during some of those many interviews all those years ago. let me tell you, they weren t in the room with me when he took us up the stairs, took us into the bedroom and relived that night. you could see it on his face, he was reliving it. of course the critics wouldn t be able to see that because it was one of the only times during the investigation when the police did not video tape chris tapp.
the fellow got that confession has gone on to become the mayor of town. true. did that have anything to do with it as far as people can tell? people have to protect their story without looking any deeper and saying, is this really accurate? so the idaho falls police had taken a false confession, put the wrong man in prison, and failed to find the real killer? when we spoke to the former detective and then mayor jared fuhriman, he said, no, not true, and how did he know? it was fuhriman who took tapp to visit the crime scene during one of those many interviews years ago. let me tell you, they weren t in the room with me when he took us up the stairs, took us into the bedroom and relived that night. you could see it on his face, he was reliving it. of course the critics wouldn t be able to see that because it was one of the only times during the investigation when the police did not video tape chris tapp. but
right now. so you don t think the timing has anything if you there might have been a better timing, don, but i honestly don t think we d be talking about this if he wasn t the wrong man. here s the other thing i think is even more significant than the fact that local politicians didn t greet him. if i m reading the report correctly, congressional leaders, democratic and republican who were invited, said, we don t want to go with you. and, again, that s about the fact donald trump used that rebuke. he has earned that rebuke every day of his presidency up until this point. stephen, a progressive jewish group at the protest said that they would welcome the president if he denounced white nationalism once and for all. why not just give a full-throated speech doing it and then denouncing white nationalism, that it s evil? well, i don t know that he s ever actually used the term white nationalism. he talks about nationalism, and i think nationalism is i m a nationalist. i m for a
visit, that he did console them. some of the people who were there. but given how he was met with protests, do you think that his visit helped heal this community? i don t think it helped heal the community, but i have to say i do think it was the right thing. and we wouldn t be asking ourselves if it was the right thing if he wasn t the wrong man. and he s the wrong man for all the reasons peter just talked about. the right thing the same thing i had with chris. not saying it was not the right thing, but was it the right time? i m not sure what the right time is. i honestly feel like we re getting into the weeds with that. i think with any other president, we would have said this is a gesture of respect. this is the right thing to do. this is what you do at a moment of great national grief. this is what do you in the direction of healing. the problem, again, is that he s the wrong man. he doesn t have, at this point in his presidency, given everything that has preceded this mo