Complete fantasy and insult to victim's family
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“As a person who lived through the East Area Rapist era in Sacramento I've long been fascinated by the case, and related cases, such as that of the Visalia Ransacker, which is what brought me here.
At first I was impressed that the podcasters had done extensive research and had access to police files ... HOWEVER, as the series went on, it became clear that they were presenting no new evidence, and based their argument that Clifton was innocent on an unsupported hypothesis that Donna's family and the police had colluded to 'frame' Clifton.
The podcasters present no evidence that any conspiracy like this ever happened. Their whole 'case' for Clifton's innocence is built on questioning minor details, without ever demonstrating that the basic crux of the case (evidence found at the scene of the crime that directly linked Clifton) was incorrect. Any reasonable reading of the facts in the case points directly to Clifton.
In fact, Donna's family are (understandably) angry at the podcast for the implication that they were involved in this cover up, since they were the ones who were first in the scene and would have had to have planted the evidence, or lied about it being there when police arrived.
Clearly, the podcasters hoped to tie this killing to Joseph DeAngelo, the Visalia Ransacker/East Area Rapist/Original Night Stalker, but there was never any evidence connecting him to this crime, and it doesn't match the MO for any of his other murders or rapes. DNA tests performed after his capture eliminated him as a suspect in the case.
Clifton was a convicted sex offender who exposed himself to a woman a half hour before Donna's kidnapping, one mile away from the scene. one of his notebooks was found at the scene of the kidnapping, and his DNA was consistent with that of the killer.
The podcasters present a tremendous amount of detail, but this is a real case of not seeing the forest because the trees are in the way. My biggest takeaway from this podcast was the pain it must have caused Donna's family, for no reason whatsoever. Really felt expoitive.”Read full review »
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