Redemption song
October 15, 2011 7:45 PM
After a murder rocks the Austin, Texas, music scene, a call to police from an angry wife blows the 26-year-old cold case wide open. Tracy Smith reports.
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The presenters not only narrate, but also (I glean) research the story and write their own scripts. Perhaps Tracy's inexperience could be part of the reason why so many questions seem to have been left unanswered, such as why the ex-girlfriends never talked before, or were never questioned?
As for Dennis--did anyone else notice that he looks like he's been doing a lotta that adrinkin' and adruggin'? Burst blood vessels on his cheeks, crow's feet galore...yeah, people in the music scene tend to indulge, but I'd like to know if he had some kind of substance abuse problem that made it easy for him to snap and kill someone, or if he developed a substance abuse problem after the murder, out of guilt. I'm not entirely convinced of either his innocence or his guilt, but as other posters have pointed out, if you're asked if you murdered someone, you don't answer "No, I'm sure I didn't," and his reaction at the guilty verdict looked as if he was expecting it. (On the other hand, being Texas, what are the chances of an innocent verdict?)
I agree that his wife was pathetic. I don't know whether to feel sorry for her or not. If her phone call to the police, the one that started the whole investigation, was a lie, shame on her. And I have to admit that I almost laughed when she said that she wanted Dennis back because she needs a man around the house to do the man's chores. (Or something like that.) Is she unhinged because she ratted out an innocent man, or could it be possible that she had been abused by him to the point that she was doing the Stockholm Syndrome thing? Flakey.
I don't think there are any winners in this case--unless Dennis is in fact innocent, which means that the real killer got off scott free and is snickering quietly as he watches the video.
Seriously, for $10,000 you could pay someone to orchestrate a set-up with 5X better circumstantial evidence and witness testimony against someone don't like.