Sunday, May 4, 2008

Right the Wrongs

While The Chaparral Murders casts a huge cloud of doubt on the guilt of Rusty Phillips for Timmy Roberts' murder, it also presents strong evidence that Wayne Scott Alexander and Margaret Shahan were innocent of complicity in the case. These young people were casualties of the prosecution's flawed case against Phillips. Phillips couldn't have carried out this atrocity alone so kids he was associated with at the time were interrogated and theories of their complicity formulated to fill in the gaps.

More young lives ruined. Collateral damage. Along with their lives, the lives of their family, children etc. have been forever affected.

It's not too late to fix this error in judgement. Is saving face in this life so important that one is willing to risk one's soul?

The world has changed. People have learned to admire those who admit error. After all, to err is human. Admitting that an error might have been committed is a sign of compassion. The world welcomes compassion.
To deny it, at the cost of another, is far worse than the original error.

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