Nancy Grace's "creation myth" of beau's murder contradicted by the record

[BurtWorm]

Her story's a little "Frey"ed around the edges, if you know what I mean...

http://www.observer.com/20060306/20060306_Rebecca_Dana_...

Nancy Grace was engaged to a man named Keith Griffin. He was murdered in Georgia. And the man who killed him is serving a life sentence. In that, Ms. Grace’s version lines up with the official records from the Georgia Bureau of Investigations, newspaper articles from the time of the murder, and interviews with many of those involved in the case.

But those same sources contradict Ms. Grace when it comes to other salient facts of the crime and the trial—the facts that form the basis of Ms. Grace’s crusade against an impotent, criminal-coddling legal system.

• Griffin was shot not by a random robber, but by a former co-worker.

• The killer, Tommy McCoy, was 19, not 24, and had no prior convictions.

• Mr. McCoy confessed to the crime the evening he was arrested.

• The jury convicted in a matter of hours, not days.

• Prosecutors asked for the death penalty, but didn’t get it, because Mr. McCoy was mildly retarded.

• Mr. McCoy never had an appeal; he filed a habeas application five years ago, and after a hearing it was rejected.

Ms. Grace has also misreported the date of the incident—it was in 1979, not 1980—and has given Griffin’s age as 25 when it was 23.

The justice system, in other words, apparently worked the way it was supposed to.

[BurtWorm]

1. Devastating news for Nancy Grace's many friends on DU, I'm sure.

:patriot:

[father_of_hope]

2. If the shooter

was mildly retarded, the victim for sure was FULLY retarded to be dating Nancy Graves.

[madaboutharry]

3. Why she felt the need to "pad" the facts

is beyond me. This story is horrible enough as it stood, the embellishment was so unnecessary. It only served to appeal to people's harshest law and order instincts. It serves as theater and, in my opinion, dishonors the memory of this man.

[BurtWorm]

4. His brother doesn't seem to happy about it.

He agrees with you, apparently:

“She has bent some stuff,” said Steve Griffin, Keith Griffin’s brother, in an interview with The Observer. “The reality of it is, the guy killed him. I know that. Our family knows that. There’s nothing we can do to bring him back. What she’s gonna say, she’s gonna say. I’m not gonna stop it.

“But if she doesn’t tell the truth, it’s gonna come out sooner or later.”

[FreedomAngel82]

10. Why doesn't he stop it??

[Akoto]

5. Same reason she covered Natalee Holloway daily for months.

Everything is theater to her. She panders to the sort of audience that's hooked on her 'moral outrage', particularly on how we can't punish people before the system has proven them guilty, and so forth.

[ronnykmarshall]

6. Watch out!! She's gonna BLOW!

[Bunny]

8. Oh ronnyk, I'm so happy you posted that!

I love to see you pop in with that pic when dear Nancy's name comes up! :rofl:

[ronnykmarshall]

9. I get a lot of use out of.

During the MJ trial it got a lot of air time.

[warrens]

7. What the hell, she lied when prosecuting cases

Withheld evidence, all sorts of shit. She's a lying wingnut headcase.