Still waiting on the LPL Financial Story you all promised WEEKS AGO

I have a complaint about your program tonight. You talk about the father being on CPAP and you show his machine but you have the sound of an old outdated ventilator in the background. It sounds like an old MA 2 vent with a bellows for an exhalation port. CPAPs don't sound like that. They don't make much of a sound at all and its a misrepresentation to use that background sound. Its hard enough to get people to use their machines without you making it sound like a ventilator. Don't you have a medical consultant? Maybe you should have.

Watching the Rock Hill story, I wonder what happened to the police detectives, dept head, and officers who wronged this man? If citizens lied and covered up info like they did, we'd be in prison. This is why the police have such a bad reputation especially in small towns.

The Mystery In Rock Hill. My son is in prison for a murder he did not do. There is no DNA or other physical evidence to place him at the scene of the crime. Eyewitnesses place him elsewhere! Trial was held in small town where all loved the victim. 11 of the 12 jurors knew the victim and one of the jurors attended the victim's funeral.. The false confessions do not match the crime scene etc..Yet he was found guilty. The DNA and fingerprint are not my son's.

I would like the name of the person who is the expert in confessions in tonight's show so I can give it to my lawyer.

Also, my son is very mentally challenged and the police knew this. Plus, the police told us endless lies.

Thanks.

EVERY single officer(law enforcement AND court officer) involved in this investigation(and the DSS workers who failed to conduct the required independent investigation) should be brought to court federally on civil rights violations, then they should serve whatever their sentence is plus at least one year for every member of the family that they destroyed by their sloppy work. The prosecuotr should be so embarrassed for even taking on this travesty he should resign and join the rest in federal prison for allowing this farce to go into court. These authorities abused their positions, wasted tens of thousands of tax dollars, and destroyed a family AND once again got South Carolina into the national news for the worst possible reason.

If Dateline wants to conduct a serious investigation look into WHO can hold an elceted prosecutor responsible for anyhting in this state - the answer is NO ONE. It all starts with the legislature. Many of our legilators are attorneys. They appoint the judges -at all levels, create the laws, then can still act as defense attorneys. They of course command the highest fees so someone like Cope could never afford the defense that intimidates the judge! Nice system, eh?

Finally, how about the state of SC requiring that those in the positions to investigate and take the freedom of someone be required to have certain training in investigations BEFORE they conduct the investigation. Most are trained OJT and learn when they screw up - guess these have learned something - wonder what.

You should also know that Cope got an exceptional Public Defender. Most just do as much as they need to -their budgets have been dramatically cut and they have no access to investigators to look into anyhting for them AND their caseloads are huge.

Knowing how the police, judges, detectives, and lawyers in SC lie to convict and don't do their jobs correctly along with the stupidity of the jurors, my family will never live or even VISIT South Carolina. it just shows how the stereotypes of small town judicial systems is completely flawed. Ironically these people will never come to justice - they should be on the nightly news rather than ridiculous stories about druggy actresses and egomaniac athletes.

I fell asleep @ 20 minutes before the conclusion! Were the letters to the friend about killing Amanda fake - did she write them?? Did the father get off?

Hello to all,

Our so called Criminal Justice system should operate on the Rule and Premise that their purpose is to provide a vigorous, skilled, in depth investigation within the framework of a 100% honest and complete search for the absolute truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. This is not how our criminal justice system works. This is not the goal of most Prosecutors and by far too many Police Officers and especially the "Brass" or upper Management of Most Police Departments. Their goal is to get a conviction at any cost even if it includes the destruction of lives of those who they know may well be innocent of the crime they are being charged with.

Sadly these extreme destructive and dishonest efforts by Prosecutors to get a conviction at all costs happens because no one is holding the Prosecutors, Police Brass and the Judges who practice and/or allow it accountable. The Truth, the Rights, and the lives of the innocent far to often are ignored and abused for the Political Beliefs and Agenda's of those who control our so called "Justice System". This common disregard of the truth for the sake of "Getting a Conviction" is not only a problem in small towns it is SOP for the so called "Justice System" in the most populated County in all of Colorado which is Jefferson County immediately west of the City and County of Denver. In this story of "The Mystery of Rock Hill" the Police and Prosecutors were repeatedly show withholding vital information from the Defense which is by Law a crime. Did you see any consequences for those breaking the Law repeatedly? You did not because it did not and does not happen as long ago the crime of withholding any evidence, including vital verdict changing information by the Prosecution from the supposed criminals Legal defense is not enforced. Prosecutors and Police knowingly lie in the Courtroom on a daily basis because they know they can get away with it. As this program clearly showed that if the Defense has vital information that could change the outcome of this Trial most Judges can be counted on to "disallow" vital Defense Testimony and Evidence for the sole benefit of the Prosecution to "Get a Conviction" to create the illusion they are all doing their jobs, they are all "Upholding or Enforcing the Law" when they in fact are breaking it themselves.

It is also important to understand that a person can only have a legitimate and vigorous Defense to the Degree that they can find a way to pay for. This is a FACT. We are manipulated by the "Justice System" and the Media to believe this is not the truth by putting a "show" on that occurs when someone who cannot afford an Attorney is charged with committing a very horrible crimes that the Media has given a great deal of coverage to. The system puts on a "dog and pony show" by providing (and paying for one way or another) a highly successful and well known Attorney or Attorneys to feed the lie that this type of defense is available for all citizens when it is not. I say this as someone who would now be sitting in Prison for a crime I did not commit because a family member came to my rescue by spending a very large amount of money on a very good Attorney. Because enough of the truth came out in the trial I was found "not guilty"when the Jury returned in less than two hours with the Verdict. Members of the Jury approached a Courtroom Official in the Parking lot and asked this person why I was charged with a crime in the first place when the truth was so blatantly obvious. My Attorney found this out when he spoke with this Official about another matter. You might say or think that "the System Worked" and you could not be more wrong if you think this. My life was devastated by this nightmare and almost all who work in my Career Field new about the charges but of course not the verdict and the real truth of the matter. I could not be hired because of the allegation and even though I had and still have absolutely no criminal record in my life. The "Law and Order Prosecutor" announced his campaign for Public Office the next business day after my acquittal. By telling this experience I hope people will give the "Justice System" a much harder look. What motivated me to tell this was the knowledge that in "Conservative" Counties is the knowledge that hundreds and possibly thousands are either sitting in Prison now, have already served their time and or have been forced by the Courts to pay large amounts of money to "diversion programs" and pay for these classes or go to jail. Several years ago one of the local Denver TV news channel announced a week long (five part) series investigating and exposing a story that these diversion programs were largely owned by current members of the Jefferson County Justice System and these people were thus profiting from them. In the first installment of this series on a Monday the obvious conflict of interest issue was brought up along with statistics showing a very large increase in supposed "Law Breakers" sentencing to include these "you must pay for" diversion courses. When I watched this channel the next day for the 2nd installment not only was it not shown it was never mentioned ever again. What does that tell you? We have more Prisoners in the US than China does and not only by percentage but by the actual numbers of people in Prison by around a two to one ratio. This is Communist China of all places with four times or more population. The reason for this is that the Justice Systems like those in Rock Hill and Jefferson County CO and far to many all over this Country are engaged in the business of creating criminals for political gain and profit. Think about it. If you can give me real reasons and not opinions why you disagree with what I said feel free to post a response, Signed Been There

Dear Been There: After watching this program on Billy Ray Cope I realized that not all the hype one sees in movies is really hype. What the police and the prosecutors in this case did was a "throw down". They conducted the shoddiest of investigations, tortured the suspect, withheld information and then were complicit with the judge in barring evidence which would have helped set this man free. They never even put on a case against the co-defendant, the obvious murderer. They were determined to convict THIS man. But what also got me were the 'jurors' who finally agreed to be 'interviewed' with the prosecutor's camera at the ready. "Would it have made any difference to you if you had heard the [other defendant's] record?" "NO". "How important were the four, now five, confessions?" "Very important". Four or five confessions which did not give the same information! And how did we just glaze over the fact that the man had passed a lie detector test that the police told him he had failed? And only hours after that they got their 'confession'. I am so glad that there are lawyers in this country like this man had who were willing to go to any lengths, without pay, to defend someone they thought was innocent. {Quite surprising to the county I am sure.} And those noted defense attorneys who heard about this travesty of justice who added their voice to the defense of not only this man, but others in this country who are sitting in jail who did not do the crime. Those people in Rock Hill should be ashamed that a man who is obviously innocent is sitting in prison for the last 7 years. As you said, things will never be the same for that man. He will never regain his freedom even if they turned him out of the prison system today. There is no profit to be had by officials by proclaiming that they made a mistake or didn't do their job and newspapers covering the innocent verdict at the exoneration don't plaster that fact on the front page. He will always be a pariah in his community. His name will be forever linked with the murder of his daughter. His other two children who have been indoctrinated against him will probably never be his family again. His wife will never be alive again. That woman Amy, who was his 'friend' will not be brought to justice for forging his letters although they know that she has forged before, nor for killing the woman in the nursing home with lethal injections of insulin. A deal was made with the prosecutors for that I am pretty sure. And what about her showing up in court in scrubs? The prosecution was obviously trying to give her story more credence by visually showing the jury that this NICE WOMAN is a nurse. So as you can see, I am with you in what you wrote. I am sorry for you and for hundreds, maybe even thousands, like you. There is nothing worse than being falsely accused of anything....much less of murdering your own child. To you, I apologize for what happened to you. I can't imagine the effect something like this would have on a person. I do know what it feels like to be falsely accused. But I cannot imagine what it is like to have your entire life stripped from you and replaced with prison orange. This reminds me of a time back in the 30's I think it was, when the 7 or 8 leaders of a religious organization in the US were falsely imprisoned for 7 years. How humiliating. How degrading. So my hope for you is that you somehow be able to recover some of what you have lost. And remember, there is one thing no one can take away from you with false accusations.....your INTEGRITY.signed M.

I just want to say that I personally knew Billy many many years ago, in fact he even lived with my family for awhile when he didnt have a plcae to stay. And he was a sweet boy in his late teens. And I never once knew of him being out of line. Then he met his wife and I heard he had a couple of kids. Then the next thing I heard was about this horrorible thing that happened to that preious little girl.

I know that they lived 3 doors down from my in-laws at the time and DSS, was called on them because of the awful conditions of the home. that they found cans with feces stuffed and in the refrigerator. They took the kids or threathened to. then they moved to a trailer. The mother/ wife really needed mental help.

I wonder if anyone else who saw this dateline, realized that, after the devastation of his daughters death, Billy really started to enjoy the notoriety of being accused of the crime. Before his life looked very depressing, he was overweight, had to have a sleep apnea machine, and lived in a filthy house. After he confessed, he became important, commanding the attention of law enforcement, and top lawyers. He became healthier in prison, also. I believe he also wrote that letter, even though he did not kill her, because his mind tied confession to well being

This is one of the most horrible things I have ever learned about. It is a shame that in today's time that someone could be wronged this way. And I am ashamed of our justice system for allowing it. America is supposed to be better than this. This is the kind of things that happens in the middle east. I really hope that they grant him an appeal and all evidence is allowed.