About

About me

My name is Jimmie Lee Staley. In 2012, I started researching this case, after watching the public insanity that swirled around this tragic scenario. That being said, if you are familiar with this case and know “the story”, I ask you to put that aside and play devil’s advocate for a few minutes. See what I have to say.

How would you feel if I told you there was a man who figured out a way to get his hands on double-digit numbers of mentally disabled kids, (who brought in $3k-$6k per month, per child) and exploited them by allowing them to be sexually assaulted by people of esteem in the community & kept recorded versions of such liasons? What if I told you this man was being investigated by numerous federal agencies for drug trafficking and illegal activities involving cartels when he was gunned down in his own home? Would you be concerned if his death was attributed to simple home invasion robbery, unrelated to the predators that he worked everyday ?

Now after his death, what if I told you the investigation by the police never looks into the inner circle of this man, his business fronts, personal/business connections or even his family with whom he had numerous contentious relationships? Is it be conceivable that an inept, new sheriff solves this complicated case with 8 perpetrators in 7 days? Could there have been a thorough investigation that identified all the culprits—to the exclusion of any others suspects in that time frame? How odd is it that people start immediately confessing to this brutal crime? One of those men was an old mentally handicapped man who confessed to a third party interrogator after being in custody for 3 days. His original confession was not recorded, and he implicated his son and 5 other unknown African Americans. The police only came to this old man because he had a vehicle similar to one used in the murder and his son was a known petty criminal.

After seeing that the little disabled man confessed, two young black boys who didn’t even know the old man’s name confessed to being accomplices to the crime. One was 16 and one was 19. Is it implausible that these confessions were borne out fear that they were going to be charged in a death penalty and that the only hopes of dodging that needle was to confess? Yet not ONE of the confessions were consistent with facts of the case or each other? All 3 had different people driving the getaway car; no one could recount who the other people were who had been involved in the murders nor who was even sitting in the passenger seat next to them when they left the scene. Does this sound like a strong case?

Then as revealed, as trials came around, DNA evidence under the victim’s fingernails revealed no match to any of the 8 people arrested, or confessed or some cases, tried. But it was a good DNA profile of someone but not the people it was tested against. One of the black men rounded up by police was tried 3 times as being present but not the shooter at the crime. 2 different juries said there was not enough evidence to convict, but the third jury convicted. Incidentally, he was represented by private counsel for the first 2 and a public defender for the final trial.

Another man was sent to death row after a 3 day trial with no physical evidence showing he was at the murder scene, had handled the murder weapon or was in any way connected to the crime scene except for the 3 people whose confessions were being prosecuted and who had made deals to not get the death penalty.

How would you feel about the community that called this justice?