Comments by "Jim Werther" (@jimwerther) on "A father is accused, then cleared, of the murder of his 3-year-old daughter | Nightline" video.

  1. The real killer's name was right there - Scott Eby. He was later convicted of murdering the girl.
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  2.  @Bearsie413  Investigators do this sort of thing all the time. The statistics show that a child killer is overwhelmingly likely to be someone in the house, and/or an immediate relative. Not every investigator is sharp enough to know when the exception presents itself. How many people are still falsely pointing the finger at the Ramseys for JonBenét or the McCanns for Maddie? The next step is that a skilled interrogator can get almost anyone to confess to a crime given enough time to wear him down. Once you combine those two points - a)assuming it's a family member, and b)ability to mentally coerce a confession - you get situations like this case here, or like Wesley Myers, a case made famous in Netflix's "The Confession Tapes".
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  3.  @RedHorseman66  I'm sorry for everything you went through. What was the conclusion?
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  4. Happened to the Ramseys and the McCanns. And people still falsely accuse them online. It's disgusting.
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  5. "We were still dating when God made plans for us" Um, I think you missed a big part of the story, lady. The stork was not involved.
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  6.  @la-zh4231  It became famous through the Netflix series, "The Confession Tapes". Although the Netflix show was at times highly misleading IMO, the episode on Wesley Myers was dead on. Myers confessed to a murder because he believed when the cops told him his DNA had been found at the scene. He assumed that he must have blacked out and set the local bar on fire, killing one employee (or the proprietor? I forget). But the interrogator lied, which poor, innocent Wesley Meyers didn't realize is a standard feature of police interrogations. It took years (and a plea bargain!) to get the poor guy out of prison. Check out the case. It is quite insteresting - and sad.
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  7.  @debbiemohekey1509  Neither the McCanns nor the Ramseys were ever formally charged. But people all over the internet still accuse them to this day. They've suffered enough.
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  8.  @RedHorseman66  Oh my. What a mess.
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  9. Except for your last sentence, you are correct.
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  10.  @la-zh4231  Yes, buy they took advantage of the husband's naivete. The wife figured it out quickly, but the husband went along with it for hours on end.
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  11.  @la-zh4231  I am not familiar with Angie Dodd. As to "The Dream Killer", is that the Ryan Ferguson case? That one was a travesty, no question. And Kathleen Zellner is awesome.
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  12.  @la-zh4231  I'm guessing that you are female. Women love Keith Morrisson. I'm sure some men do as well, but some of us can't stand him, actually. I can't watch Dateline. It's my least favorite network crime show.
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  13.  @la-zh4231  There are narrators who try way too hard IMO, instead of letting the story tell itself. I gave up on Forensic Files because of Peter Thomas's tendency to make it about himself. Keith Morrisson? I couldn't take him from Day One, much worse than Thomas. I find Dateline's production values to be shaky, and the constant interruptions from news anchors in between breaks rather annoying as well. No Dateline for me. But yes, women love Keith Morrisson, no question. Who and what do I like? 48 Hours is king. Richard Schlesinger is amazing, and their other hosts pretty good as well (although I don't love Erin Moriarty). I could listen to Bill Kurtis read the phone book all day, which is why I'll watch American Justice, despite their flaws: Giving the plot away in the first 30 seconds, and mediocre production values. But Kurtis makes it all worth it. If those kind of things don't bother you, then you've got a far wider library of shows from which to choose than I do.
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  14. Anyone ever tell you that you look like Piper from OITNB?
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  15. He was naive
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  16.  @la-zh4231  Reminds me of the Wesley Myers case.
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  17.  @joshuamcpherson007  You failed to demonstrate your point. What is your basis to claim that they would use interrogation techniques without believing their target guilty?
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  18.  @karenacton3854  Oh, give it up. "Especially black men" - there is nothing racial about this. Are there bad convictions? Absolutely. Are they targeting black men for such? Please.
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