Agreed, Mal and Celesta. Good points.
Hi Chava,
Yes, but checking the validity of a witness account needn't always equate to investigation into him as a suspect. You say that "by his own account he was in the right place at the right time", but if the police dismissed "his own account", it's quite possible that they dismissed that aspect of his account too, i.e. the bit about him loitering near the crime scene. In other words, they'd have been lumping him into the came category that many other false witnesses had already been consigned, such as Packer and Violenia. They may have done so in error, but it would have been more than understandable.
That's utter nonsense.
Your "certainty" is completely unfounded.
It perpetuates the obvious fallacy that the dismissal of a witness is tantamount to a dismissal of a suspect. There was nothing to rule him out as a suspect anyway, short of some miraculous alibi for a fleeting moment in the small hours of a particular morning. If he never murdered anyone, the overwhelmingly strong chances are that he was asleep in the Victoria Home on the nights in question anyway, which would have been impossible to contradict or verify. There's no evidence that Hutchinson was even considered a suspect, but even if he was, there isn't always this magical formula for determining guilt or innoncence. Gary Ridgeway was interviewed as a suspect for the Green River killings, but they had to release him, not because they had proof that he didn't do it (he did), but because they lacked the evidence to rule him out.
Best regards,
Ben
Hi Chava,
Otherwise that description would still stand, wouldn't it? And if they are checking that, they are checking him.
But I'm as certain as certain could be that whatever they got on him takes him out of the frame for the murders.
Your "certainty" is completely unfounded.
It perpetuates the obvious fallacy that the dismissal of a witness is tantamount to a dismissal of a suspect. There was nothing to rule him out as a suspect anyway, short of some miraculous alibi for a fleeting moment in the small hours of a particular morning. If he never murdered anyone, the overwhelmingly strong chances are that he was asleep in the Victoria Home on the nights in question anyway, which would have been impossible to contradict or verify. There's no evidence that Hutchinson was even considered a suspect, but even if he was, there isn't always this magical formula for determining guilt or innoncence. Gary Ridgeway was interviewed as a suspect for the Green River killings, but they had to release him, not because they had proof that he didn't do it (he did), but because they lacked the evidence to rule him out.
Best regards,
Ben
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