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Guilty!
By Rob | January 3, 2008
Damien Echols sits on death row, waiting for justice.
In 1993, he and two other teenage boys in the town of West Memphis, Arkansas were arrested, tried and convicted for the murder of three young boys.
It was said the murders were part of a satanic ritual, performed by the boys known nowadays as the West Memphis Three. They were satanists because they had long hair and listened to Metallica.
The trial was a joke. The conviction was an even bigger joke, only not a funny one.
You can read all about them at www.wm3.org, or watch the film Paradise Lost. I’m not here to talk about them. I’m here to talk about another case that’s been in the news recently that has quite a few things in common with the three boys from West Memphis.
The victim’s name is Stacy Peterson, the suspect her husband Drew.
I’ll say it right off: I don’t like Drew Peterson. I don’t like the attitude he seems to have, nor the fact that he doesn’t seem to care about the welfare of his missing wife. It wouldn’t surprise me if he did, in fact, murder her.
See what I did there? I implied that he may have killed his wife by making a statement to which a lot of people would argue I’ve already tried and convicted him in my mind.
Which is exactly what the media has done to this man. Every news story has basically come out and said he killed her. He’s been tried and convicted before even being arrested, or before it’s even been proven that his young wife is dead.
Sure, it’s been proven by one of the top medical examiners in the nation that his previous wife, Kathleen Savio, was murdered in her bathtub. It was never proven, however, that Peterson killed her.
The problem that’s being created here by the sensationalism of this news story is that our justice system now can’t possibly provide a fair trial for this man if he is indeed arrested. The court system would be hard pressed to find someone who hasn’t been following this story and who hasn’t already formed an opinion of Drew Peterson.
This is the same thing that happened in West Memphis. The town had already tried and convicted these three boys, and thus the prosecution needed no physical evidence lock in a guilty verdict. The same thing is going to happen to Drew Peterson if he goes on trial.
We see this investigation every day in the news, but is Peterson the only lead the police are following? The only suspect? If so, they should arrest him. If there’s any doubt, they should be finding other avenues to pursue and say so. If Peterson can be all over the news, so should any other lead that the police are following. That’s the only ay this horrible journalism can be made unbiased.
I’ll be interested to see how all of this unfolds.
Any opinions?
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