DNA Done Set Him Free

Via The Washington Post:

A little after 4 a.m. on July 21, 1996, Damon Thibodeaux, a deckhand on a Mississippi River workboat, cracked at the end of a nine-hour interrogation and confessed to the brutal rape and murder of his 14-year-old step-cousin, Crystal Champagne. “I didn’t know that I had done it,” Thibodeaux said at one point, according to a police transcript. “But I done it.”

Turns out he didn't done it. Read HERE.

Speaking of DNA, "Snapped" focused this week on that Los Angeles police detective who was finally linked to murdering her ex-lover's wife in 1986 in a jealous rage. (Stephanie Lazarus was sentenced to 27 years to life in May.) I've followed this case intensely and all I have to say is that if dick will make you slap somebody, this John Ruetten's dick will make you kill someone. Read HERE.