Was This Really Justice?
Was 15 year old Timothy Masters really the killer in Ft. Collins?
FORT COLLINS - Lawyers for Timothy Lee Masters, convicted of the 1987 stabbing death of Peggy Lee Hettrick, continue to press for a new trial, claiming alleged gross irregularities by prosecutors.A fight to win a new trial for a man convicted in one of the city's most notorious killings has spawned allegations that evidence was lost and destroyed and assertions that police officers and prosecutors colluded to hide information from defense attorneys.
The controversy revolves around the 1999 conviction of Timothy Lee Masters in the murder of Peggy Lee Hettrick, who was stabbed to death in 1987 as she walked home on a moonlit night in south Fort Collins. Masters was 15 at the time, and though he was a prime focus of the investigation from its first hours, it took detectives more than a decade to assemble a circumstantial case against him and file charges. Read the Rest at the Rocky Mountain News
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Almost EVERY single solitary teenage boy I've ever known,(my own brothers,sons,and sons of friend's), drew pictures like the ones this boy drew growing up. I guess we better find murders to write off using this as "evidence" they are killers, hmm? It is SICKENING & FRIGHTENING to know police would stoop so low as to destroy a young man's life to get a conviction reguardless of his innocence!!! I pray somebody will do something to save this young man.
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