Luke Mitchell...further information

Recapitulation:
Luke Mitchell the 14 year old boyfriend of 14 year old murder victim Jodi Jones was the immediate suspect and the police rather obviously never even looked elsewhere. Perhaps they had some early confidence that the forensic evidence would bear out their views but none of Luke's dna was found on or near the corpse and Luke's clothing and person were utterly devoid of even the slightest speck of blood or scratch or other evidence.

The police repeatedly described the attack as not a sex crime despite three separate men's semen being found on in or near the corpse. The socks were folded over the victim's otherwise naked body suggesting sexual deviancy which is lacking in the boyfriend.

The pathologist stated that the victim's mutilations bear only the slightest resemblance to the Black Dahlia's mutilation which was depicted on the Marilyn Manson website. Luke Mitchell, although described by the police as obsessed with Marilyn Manson, merely had been given a magazine that contained a Marilyn Manson CD and this gift took place a few days after the murder.

Newspapers and police engaged in a campaign of media vilification and Luke Mitchell was clearly convicted of murder simply because the entire village had heard endless nonsense about tattoos, Satanism, knives and mutilation.

It appears that the family of the victim soon adopted a united front that implicated Luke Mitchell and the family has been obstinate in linking Luke Mitchell's selected path through the woods to the presumed path of the murder victim.

With three paths, the safest being along an open field it is more likely than not the victim took the path that meant crossing a fence and passing nearby an area of known drug dealers. Instead the family and police took the view that the victim chose Roans Dike Path, on which she encountered Luke Mitchell and was forced over a nearly six foot wall and then killed.

There is considerable reason to doubt the information given by the victim's family to the police. Indeed there seems doubt at to just why when police wanted a photograph of the victim to put on flyers and on the TV the only photo they were able to obtain was that of the 14 year old victim as a 5 year old girl. With an obstructionist family the police should have been more suspicious of the blood relatives of the victim. It boggles the mind to think that a truly concerned family would resist providing a recent photograph. Perhaps they had difficulty finding one, but it seems that they found flashlights and batteries with which to conduct a search quite rapidly. In fact according to one time-line they found the equipment and embarked on the search five full minutes before learning she was missing, strode in a direct and purposeful manner to the right area and there began the searching behavior.

And it seems the police never even considered anyone but the boyfriend in this attack they repeatedly describe even to this day as non-sexual.