DDV, Hello,
It was nice hearing from you so fastand I enjoyed your letter too. I trust that this one fines you and yours in good health and things going well for you. I have been going along still waiting to hear if I am going to have back surgery. I don't know if I mention it but I have a herinated disc of the lower spine. Its been known for a few years now but its been acting up this last six months. And with the lack of moving around much it doesn't help.
So you asked about my appeal and when its going to happen and how I would or will react to it? First off the time table is anyone guess, as the state has been stalling for the past two years now as thats when we entered the Post Conviction part of the appeal. In this country the appeal is long and drawn out as there are ten steps to a capital case with a death penalty and I am just on the fourth step with post conviction, and its taken seven years to get this far. We think it should happen within the next two years, but then I am guessing. as to the second part of the question, thats all I wanted is a fair trial one not hyped so much with publicity and public pressure. I am sure if all the evidence is brought out then I can be cleared, already we have shown that I wasn't in Illinois when 16 of the victims disappeared or were murdered based on the dates the state has used. But while it may sound simple I am fighting politic along with publicity and public pressure As you may know in this country the police don't like to admit they made a mistake and will do anything they can to see that I am blocked if possible from getting a new trial. It was a bad police investigation, and they were under pressure to clear it up right away so they closed their eyes to other suspect they had, since I owned the property. Which doesn't mean a thing since I had five houses or properties and nothing was found at the others. Hey I could go on and on but rather defend myself I'll just say if I can get a new trial I am sure the outcome will be different.
You asked what it would feellike to be free again, thats hard to say until it happens, well How would like to be in prison for nearly eight years now and be called every name under the sun, be the most hated person in America, and know you never killed anyone? I had no reason to do, it nothing to gain and ceryainly if I had done it as they calim I have an I.Q. in the upper ten percent of the country then why would I bury them in my own house with all the building sites I had under way. I could have easily buried them under concrete by the jobs. But see the public has been brain washed to believe what has been told to them in the media so its a one sided story. My appeal is like trying to walk through a mountain or over it. there is so much fantasy that has been told to people about me, I just quit defending myself against it. The media has made me an infamous figure and I hate it. I guess I would have to pick up the pieces of my life and go on as I think filling my head with angur thoughts would destroy me, you know what I mean. Hey you can't change your past, but you do control your present and future to some extend, and thats the direction I would have to think in.