Byron Case is Innocent!

compiled from: Free Byron Case
on behalf of family and supporters

On the morning of June 11, 2001, on a quiet suburban Kansas City street, twenty-two-year-old Byron Case was dragged from his bed by a tactical police unit. He did not know it at the time, but he was being arrested for murder. Led to a waiting Sheriff’s car in handcuffs, the only reply he got to his repeated questions was stern silence.

The murder of Byron Case’s friend Anastasia WitbolsFeugen almost four years earlier had never been solved. No evidence had been found at the scene, and basic forensics never determined when she died or what type of gun had been used to shoot her.

For all their interviews and research, documentation shows authorities never even had a suspect. But when an ex-girlfriend of Byron’s claimed to have been an eyewitness to the killing, prosecutors saw their chance to close a case that had long since gone cold.

Under promise of immunity, Byron Case’s ex-girlfriend testified that she had watched him pull a gun and shoot his friend in the face. But she would not describe the alleged murder weapon.

2 Responses to Byron Case is Innocent!

4WardEver Reply

26/09/2010 at 10:10 pm

People should read ‘The Skeptical Juror and The Trial of Byron Case’ and make up their own minds!
http://tinyurl.com/32w5oeh
Frank J Reply

20/09/2010 at 11:17 pm

I can see how this one can be viewed as a wrongful conviction, if one takes every one of Byron Case’s statements as unassailable fact, and if you ignore the evidence that was actually presented in trial, especially the fact that he made a tacit confession.

I believe this website performs a function that is sadly necessary, as there are many, many wrongful convictions in this country. However, Byron Case’s conviction was not one of them. It was correct and righteous, and it should not be included among legitimate wrongful convictions.

What does not get mentioned by Case’s supporters is the fact that his alibi was impossible, requiring an impossibly perfect storm, requiring the victim to have taken an unexplainable and lengthy detour uphill through an overgrown gravel road into a dark cemetery, and for a killer to JUST happen to be there, and for the killer to JUST happen to sneak up so close to her that he was right up behind her before she would even notice, and for the killer to JUST want to kill, not talk, not taunt, not rob, not assault in any other way. Her autopsy showed not struggle, indicating no abduction, no fight, no flight, not even an attempt to cover up.

The other thing that does not get mentioned is the fact that Byron Case made a tacit admission to his ex-girlfriend days before his arrest. While talking very specifically about the police investigation into the murder and making suggestions on how to deflect police questions, he was asked point-blank why he killed his victim; he went silent; he was asked again in direct language “Why did you kill her?” and again he remained silent; when asked a third time, he said “We shouldn’t talk about this,” and then changed the subject. He avoided and then changed the subject after having spoken for several minutes about the investigation, and about how to avoid answering any questions. He told her \just say you don’t remember\, which just happened to be the same thing he told them himself.

Look at ALL the evidence before deciding. The entire transcript of Case’s trial is online, along with a comprehensive FAQ, and a memorial to his victim.

http://www.stasia.org/case_against/trial_transcripts.html
heep://www.stasia.org/case_against/FAQ.html
http://www.stasia.org/index.html