Secrets of the River
November 10, 2012 7:45 PM
A high school dancer and aspiring model is found dead. Did the killer videotape the murder? Peter Van Sant reports.
The search for Mackenzie Cowell's killer
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See all 196 CommentsI believe he did it, and the blood proves that. I dont know anyone who would plead guilty to that if they werent guilty. Especially since they were making a plea deal and he knew they didnt have uch evidence-he knew he did it. Poor girl..so young and had everything to live for.
"Schuyleman, 22, did make several calls to her boyfriend between 9:10 p.m. and 10:33 p.m, investigators said. During the first call, she told him, "SOMETHING REALLY BAD HAS HAPPENED.PLEASE PRAY FOR ME", according to the document. The boyfriend told detectives he was shocked by the comment as he knew Schuyleman to be "anti-religion." She later called back and said everything was fine, he said.
A former boyfriend of Schuyleman told police she stopped by his apartment some time between Feb. 9 and Feb. 11. She was acting "really (expletive) weird," and seemed "wierdly (sic) scared," the document said, and she told him she came to get some of her belongings, but did not do so."
2 pieces of DNA evidence linking him to the victim...the freak kid is guilty. But 15 years (probably much less for parole) is a slap on the wrist. His girlfriend probably belongs behind bars as well. That prosecutor was a marsh-mellow in offering any plea deals.
As an outsider that doesn't care too much, it's completely obvious that either Chris or Tessa, or both did it (and Tessa certainly knew about it, even if she wasn't directly involved). Some use of Occam's razor around here would be a nice change of pace. Or do they not have Occam's razor in Wenatchee? Which of these is more likely?
1. The weird guy with a blood stain on his floor, with extended videos of the floor where said bloodstain existed, with bizarre comments by his little satanic friend while videoing the floor and in other videos playing dead on the floor and then lying about it to the police, a guy who left like a minute from the school after McKenzie did, that sent barrages of text messages between himself and his little satanic friend (who was apparently freaked out over the next few days) while attempting to borrow cars all at the exact times that would've lined up with the murder ... might've actually killed the girl. Sometimes a duck is just a duck.
or is it more likely ...
2. The police decided to take amounts of a murder victim's blood and pour it on some random guy's floor, but only after magically looking into the future in order to know that the place they would pour it would also turn out to have been video-taped in very bizarre fashion by these random people they just picked.
Yeah, #2 sure sounds likely.
Just imagine if some of you bending over backwards to come up with "what if" scenarios that would cause Chris to be innocent, instead started bending over backwards to create "what if" scenarios to defend Budha or whoever these other guys were. Ya'll are taking by far the harder of the two choices. You're willing to believe every word of some drug addict informant like it's gospel from heaven, yet are willing to assume police officers are dumping blood in order to frame innocent people without giving a second thought.
As an outsider that doesn't care too much, it's completely obvious that either Chris or Tessa, or both did it (and Tessa certainly knew about it, even if she wasn't directly involved). Some use of Occam's razor around here would be a nice change of pace. Or do they not have Occam's razor in Wenatchee? Which of these is more likely?
1. The weird guy with a blood stain on his floor, with extended videos of the floor where said bloodstain existed, with bizarre comments by his little satanic friend while videoing the floor and in other videos playing dead on the floor and then lying about it to the police, a guy who left like a minute from the school after McKenzie did, that sent barrages of text messages between himself and his little satanic friend (who was apparently freaked out over the next few days) while attempting to borrow cars all at the exact times that would've lined up with the murder ... might've actually killed the girl. Sometimes a duck is just a duck.
or is it more likely ...
2. The police decided to take amounts of a murder victim's blood and pour it on some random guy's floor, but only after magically looking into the future in order to know that the place they would pour it would also turn out to have been video-taped in very bizarre fashion by these random people they just picked.
Yeah, #2 sure sounds likely.
Just imagine if some of you bending over backwards to come up with "what if" scenarios that would cause Chris to be innocent, instead started bending over backwards to create "what if" scenarios to defend Budha or whoever these other guys were. Ya'll are taking by far the harder of the two choices. You're willing to believe every word of some drug addict informant like it's gospel from heaven, yet are willing to assume police officers are dumping blood in order to frame innocent people without giving a second thought.
I think there has to be some truth into what that older druggy woman said, I mean why would she lie? For publicity?...It doesn't make sense to me unless there was some truth into it.
For the boy who was charged with the murder, the whole plee bargain thing seemed very rushed, but he does look like a strange boy. I mean there is no emotion, and that satanic looking friend of his with the camera was suspicious when he asked her about 'is it clean here?' and she said clean about what??? etc and zooming into the blood stain? That is extremely telling evidence that he was involved. Obviously those two characters are like satanic worshippers or something, they wanted to sacrifice some poor girl. So what if he didn't know Mckenzie? He supposedly worked in the hair salon, wasn't that enough? Obviously he must have chosen his victim. For further evidence I wish more DNA details were taken for example in the boy's car, how did he kidnap Mckenzie? He must have transported the body with a car so I wished they had done some DNA testing there.
My heart goes out to the family who lost their beautiful little girl, we live in a cruel unsafe world. People need to be more aware of their surroundings when they're alone, follow their gut instinct when something's not right and not always accept friendships from strange people, it can cost you your life and the lives of the people who love you.
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