At the same time, the case against him really did have a lot of holes in it. I honestly can't judge what his responsibility here is and whether or not he deserved to remain in jail, but it seems like in some ways he was treated as a scapegoat for the sake of closure rather than truth. Much easier to put a guy in jail and close the book on a complicated case than continue searching. Even if he deserved to be there, he couldn't have been the only one.
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