Pinyon Pines Murders

Category: Evidence

  • Denying Potential 3rd Party Culpability

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    “The RSD Central Homicide Unit has a reputation for tunnel vision.  Once they settle on a suspect, not even contrary facts will dissuade them”  –  Former Indio Homicide Detective  In a pretrial hearing, a few months before the Pinyon Pines Murders trial was to start, a series of guidelines were being established about how the…

  • Somebody Lifted Her by the Ankles – But Who?

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    In the Pinyon Pines Murder case, the autopsy showed that Becky Friedli was already dead when she was set afire. But that would then imply that she must have been placed in the wheelbarrow after her murder. 

  • The Trail of a Thousand Footprints

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    Much has been made of the footprints found in the sand.  Importantly, they connect the crime scene to a piece of debris found two football fields away.  Or at least we are meant to believe they do…

  • Business card – Proof of Murder or Puff of Smoke?

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    In the trial’s closing arguments, the defense referred to the prosecution’s case as ‘smoke and mirrors’. So much of the so-called ‘evidence’ was just not relevant.  It was circumstantial, at best. Is the DNA on a business card proof of murder? Let’s start by asking this simple question: If I, a hypothetical salesman, meet you…

  • The Avalanche Effect

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    If You Can’t Dazzle ’em with Brilliance… As the Pinyon Pines Murder trial progressed, one expert after another was paraded through the courtroom to attest to the existence of evidence. But the common thread among many of them was:

  • Cell Tower Data – A Wisp of a Concept

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    A fundamental premise of the prosecutor’s case in the Pinyon Pines Murder trial was the pattern of connections to the various cell towers made by the defendants on the night the murders were committed.