The Ferris Conspiracy

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But what is most interesting is the weight given to uncorroborated testimony from Jodi‟s family members.

As soon as Elizabethlearned of the murder, she immediately left Juneau for Kansas and on her arrival she hired lawyer General L.C. Boyle to defend her son. Although Boyle had a reputation as one of the best defense attorneys in the state, he knew he had a difficult case ahead of him. After all, Robert did kill Turner in front of over one thousand convicts and several guards. Over the years, while Robert served out his sentence he took advantage of some of the privileges offered to him. He received various art supplies and began learning how to write and paint with the assistance of correspondence teachers. He also began to create greeting cards, on which he displayed his artwork that he gave to his mother to sell. The proceeds from the cards were intended to financially help his aging mother. Robert protested the plea that was decided for him without his consent. Moreover, there was concern that the new lawyers would have little if any time to prepare a case on his behalf in time for the hearing. Realizing that Robert was in an unusual predicament, the judge decided to continue the trial at a later date. told the jury that "following an incident with one of {their} number" they should be aware that if anyone tried to approach them, they should tell the court!

Mitchell got the tally marks recently because that is almost six years he has been behind bars in total. What becomes critical here is the prosecution‟s claim as to the sequence and timing of events. They would claim that Jodi left home at approximately 4.50pm, and was murdered around 5.15pm, her body being stripped and mutilated thereafter. In an attempt to pin down these timings, police video footage timed the walk from the point where Luke was identified at the end of his street to the Newbattle entrance to the path where Jodi was killed, at just over 5 minutes at a brisk walking pace. Walking the full length of the path, from end to end, at a similar pace would take an absolute minimum of 10 minutes. If, as the prosecution claimed, Luke left to meet Jodi in response to texts they‟d exchanged earlier (the last one being at 4.38pm), we have to accept that Luke was at the end of his street when these texts were exchanged, he left immediately, took a very brisk walk up the path, covering the distance in the minimum possible time, and arrived to meet Jodi with just one minute to spare within the "identification" window produced by Andrina Bryson‟s sighting. Had Luke been at home when he received these texts, it would have been impossible for him to have reached the Easthouses end of the path in time to have been "identified" by Andrina Bryson – yet by Jodi‟s own mother‟s admission, up until the exchange of those texts, Luke Mitchell would still have believed Jodi to be "grounded" that evening – the decision to "unground" her had been taken, completely by chance, by Judy at around 4.30pm. Luke, therefore, would have had no reason whatsoever to have been anywhere near the path. Just prior to this book going to press, further witness statements, pointing to another, far more credible suspect were passed to the defence. The police claimed that these statements had not been followed up because the case was "closed." While Ferris was caged in Barlinnie Prison's segregation unit accused of murdering Thompson's son, Fatboy, his two friends were shot dead the night before the funeral and grotesquely displayed in a car on the cortege's route. Acquitted against all the odds, Ferris moved on, determined to make an honest living. The reasons for Mr Dobbie‟s newspaper interview remain unclear. Having claimed that his force carried out a "first rate investigation," and knowing that the jury had returned a guilty verdict, why did he feel compelled to give an interview explaining why police had been suspicious of Luke from such an early point, and what the "motive" had been?

While Robert was ill, his mother traveled to Kansasto be closer to her son and offer assurances. When she learned the severity of the disease, she wrote a letter to the United States Attorney General pleading for her sons release, yet her request went unanswered. Eventually, Robert began to show signs of recovery but he remained weakened by the debilitating disease. a b Simon Houston (3 October 2004). "FURY OVER FERRIS TV STARDOM". The Sunday Mirror . Retrieved 5 June 2007.Elizabethwas a particularly devoted mother who spent a great deal of her time trying to protect the children from their abusive alcoholic father. However, she did not always succeed and the children were frequently beaten and emotionally abandoned by Ben. Robert was greatly affected by his fathers behavior and grew to intensely dislike him. Roberts discoveries and bird cure led to recognition in one of the most prestigious bird magazines of the time known as the Roller Canary Journal,as well as other periodicals. During the late 1920s, Robert gained national recognition for his informative and breakthrough articles. Throughout the years he continued to send all recent information and discoveries he made to journals in an effort to save birds throughout the country. But the central, critical evidence is that of the members of the search party. All three of Jodi‟s family members, by the time the case came to court, some 17 months after the event, told exactly the same story; one which differed in fundamental respects from that told by Luke Mitchell. Janine Jones, Stephen Kelly and Alice Walker all reported that the dog had not alerted Luke, but that Luke had gone straight to the V in the wall, climbed through, and immediately knew to turn left, rather than going straight ahead or turning right. All three claimed that he remained calm and emotionless throughout. The ink from a ballpoint pen and a needle from the prison's needle exchange are used to etch the designs on to skin.

Griffiths, 40, has appeared in court in Bradford accused of killing Susan Rushworth, 43, Suzanne Blamires, 36, and Shelley Armitage, 31. Gavin Millar QC, for the director of public prosecutions Keir Starmer, said he would read the charges for the record of proceedings. I'm still not entirely convinced about Luke Mitchell though, and until anything new or substantial turns up, personally I believe him to be guilty of the murder of Jodi Jones. Luke's own webite, which was started by his mother, is quite interesting, although it is rather biased and even quite bitter in parts. Maybe it's just me having made upmy mind, I don't know. Luke Mitchell - 'smokewithoutfire' - you decide. The warden also conducted tours of the isolation ward, which included Roberts cell. The visitors that passed through were offered a chance to buy one of Roberts canaries, which many agreed to. Before long, Robert had established a lucrative business, of which the proceeds went to his mother new equipment and food for the birds. On June 28, 1918the jury returned its verdict, finding Robert guilty of first-degree murder. The jury further suggested that he be sentenced to execution by hanging. The judge swiftly reacted to the verdict by imposing the death sentence, with the execution to take place in November of that year.And the latest crude markings were put on his body by a fellow inmate using a home-made tattoo gun. Alice Walker, Jodi‟s grandmother, who was reported as shaking, screaming, and "a mess" following the discovery of the body, made the same claims as the others regarding Luke‟s reaction. Yet, just after the murder, when police had called "some days later" to collect the clothing they should have collected on the night the body was found, Mrs Walker could not remember what she had been wearing. Mr Dobbie also claims that Luke came under suspicion because he was the last person to have seen Jodi alive, and the first to have found her dead. Yet there is no evidence, anywhere, which places Luke Mitchell with Jodi Jones that evening. Indeed, what evidence exists proves that the last person to see Jodi alive was her mother. Mitchell, who slaughtered Jodi, his 14-year-old girlfriend, in 2003 had tally marks etched on his stomach - and a skull emblem based on Marvel Comics vigilante The Punisher on his arm. He was not convicted on the basis of what he was seen to do once over the wall, as this testimony cannot, physically, be true.