THEY CONVICTED AN INNOCENT MAN!
It was July 23, 1991 in Ramsey, Illinois. At approximately 4:00 pm, 16-year-old Krystal Naab’s brother Curtis arrived home to find her lying dead on the kitchen floor of the family’s trailer. She had been stabbed 80+ times with what was discovered later to be a pair of sewing scissors. The telephone had been ripped from the wall, and blood was, needless to say, everywhere.
Eye witnesses had reported seeing a white Dodge pickup in the driveway the day of Krystal’s murder. When asked if he knew anyone with a white pickup truck, Curtis at first answered that no, he did not. It was some time later that Curtis came back and mentioned to the police the name of 24-year-old Stuart Heaton, a local carpenter. It had been about three years since Stuart had interacted with the Naab family. He had settled down with his wife, Karen, and they were expecting their first child. They lived approximately 25 miles from Krystal’s family.
Eye witnesses put Stuart and his truck elsewhere during the time the suspicious white truck had been in the Naab driveway, yet those eye witnesses were never called to testify at Stuart’s trial. Another local man, who had been seen with Krystal shortly before she was found murdered, was never considered to be a suspect. He was known to have a social relationship with the victim. This man’s brother also owned a white Dodge pickup and had mentioned to other people that his brother had borrowed it the day of the murder. The truck was never checked for blood, fingerprints or hair. The man’s potential involvement was never explored. His DNA was never tested.
Some people insisted DNA evidence was present that linked Stuart to the crime. Further inspection revealed that to be far from accurate. The first DNA sample run on Stuart’s DNA proved to be inconclusive, at very best, according to Dr. Dan Krane, a DNA specialist. He stated in an interview with Court TV’s investigators, Jerry Palace and Scott Anderson, that he would have expected the results he had seen on the DNA test to free Stuart, not convict him. He called it, “... perhaps one of the most questionable convictions based on DNA evidence that I have ever seen …” He also stated, “… never before have I seen as suspicious-looking a DNA profile match as was declared in this particular case.”
If you look at the DNA strand in the picture posted here, you will notice the first strand has a dark band near where the dots are. The other strand should have an identical band. One simply isn't there. This doesn't take an expert.
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| DNA disaster. Anyone can see these don't match. |
A bloody palm print on the phone was never matched to anyone. It did not belong to Stuart, Krystal or Curtis.
Rape was cited as the motive for the crime against Krystal, yet the medical examiner stated in his report that she had not been sexually attacked prior to the crime. The allegations as to possible other motives to the crime were never thoroughly explored, nor leads followed. Those allegations would have led the police to an entirely different suspect.
Stuart’s arresting officer, Jim Calvert, had seen the crime scene first hand. He described it as having been consistent with a girl fighting with everything within her to save her own life. Whoever had murdered Krystal would have had significant cuts on the palms of his hands. There would have been significant evidence of a struggle with someone else. Blood and fiber transfers between the two parties would have been astronomical. Jim Calvert, the officer who cuffed Stuart the day of the arrest, maintained that there were no visible wounds on Stuart consistent with that kind of struggle. Stuart had some superficial, mostly-healed scratches on his hands from some carpentry work he had done earlier in the week. He had some insignificant scratches on his legs from a fall off his horse. He had a small pimple on his forehead. That was all. His fingerprints and hair were found nowhere at the crime scene, and nothing from the scene of the crime was found in Stuart’s truck. This officer came forward later to state he felt Stuart was “getting a railroad job.” His statement aired on the Court TV program “Crime Stories.” Shortly after coming forward to speak out on Stuart’s behalf, Jim and his wife were dead. It was ruled a homicide/suicide officially, but there are those who vehemently disagree citing “oddities” in the deaths … things that just “don’t add up.”
Let's Compare
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Police photo of Stuart's hand #1
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Police photo of Stuart's hand #2
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Now let's look at a hand that is NOT FROM STUART'S CASE. It is a picture of a hand cut by the blade from a pair of scissors sliding down ONCE.
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| One cut from the blade of a pair of scissors |
Now imagine this times 80+, and that is what the real murderer's hand would have looked like. Cut to ribbons. There should be shreds of skin with ample amounts of fresh bleeding. As someone is committing this kind of crime, their hands become slippery with the victim's blood. Eventually, their hands will slip onto the blade causing them some pretty nasty wounds. Stuart had nothing even close to this. His hands were normal.
Stuart had nothing ... absolutely nothing ... to do with this crime. People sarcastically say, "What ... like one day just ... BAM ... someone shows up at the door of some innocent guy, grabs him out of his life for no reason and puts him in jail to rot?"
Yes. That is exactly what happened.
