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Logan Jenkins
San Diego Union Tribune
June 21, 2003
"...How, the book asks, could
anyone criticize the heroic
investigators who came within an
ace of convicting the boys – that is,
until a few drops of blood ruined
everything?
May 13, 2004
Feeling unsettled as jury gets
Crowe case
San Diego Union Tribune
June 21, 2003
"...How, the book asks, could
anyone criticize the heroic
investigators who came within an
ace of convicting the boys – that is,
until a few drops of blood ruined
everything?
May 13, 2004
Feeling unsettled as jury gets
Crowe case
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| The Stephanie Crowe Murder Case San Diego Union Tribune Report Twelve-year-old Stephanie Crowe was found stabbed to death on her bedroom floor Jan. 21, 1998. But the family's nightmare had only just begun. In the weeks to follow her brother, Michael, then 14, and two of his friends, Joshua Treadway and Aaron Houser, were charged with conspiring to kill her. Those charges were dropped before trail in February 1999 after last-minute DNA testing found spots of Stephanie's blood on a sweatshirt worn by a transient seen in the neighborhood the night of the killing. The development forced detectives and prosecutors to start the investigation anew -- and raised questions about the handling of the case... |