Author and owner of Captain Obvious' Crime Site. I have been blogging in one form or another since the days of Fidonet and BBSes in the early nineties. Started blogging in it's current form around 10 years ago and got seriously interested in crime in 2005, about the time Natalee Holloway vanished. I've been hooked ever since.
  • http://www.sickcrimes.us Captain Obvious

    IIRC the Union County (Georgia) DA had to promise NOT to seek the death penalty in order to get Hilton to take police to Meredith Emerson’s body. The Florida authorities are under no such deal so they can seek the death penalty in trial. I guess to Hilton life in prison is preferable to being executed and any kind of appeals his lawyers can throw out just delay things further.

  • http://www.sickcrimes.us/ Captain Obvious

    IIRC the Union County (Georgia) DA had to promise NOT to seek the death penalty in order to get Hilton to take police to Meredith Emerson's body. The Florida authorities are under no such deal so they can seek the death penalty in trial. I guess to Hilton life in prison is preferable to being executed and any kind of appeals his lawyers can throw out just delay things further.

  • http://www.sickcrimes.us/ Captain Obvious

    IIRC the Union County (Georgia) DA had to promise NOT to seek the death penalty in order to get Hilton to take police to Meredith Emerson's body. The Florida authorities are under no such deal so they can seek the death penalty in trial. I guess to Hilton life in prison is preferable to being executed and any kind of appeals his lawyers can throw out just delay things further.