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Part 2 - Texas Tribune Coverage of Hank Skinner Case

By Steve Hall

Part two of Brandi Grissom's examination of the Hank Skinner is at the Texas Tribune today.  It's "Case Open: The Investigation."It makes sense to Greg Jonsson that police in Pampa set their sights on Hank Skinner when they found Skinner's girlfriend and her two sons violently murdered on New Year?s Eve in 1993. Skinner was a hard-drinking, hard-partying guy who had seen the inside of a jail cell more than a few times. He was in the house at the time of the killings, he had blood all over his clothes, and police found him hiding out in an ex-girlfriend?s house. ?If I was a police officer, I would have looked at Hank Skinner, too,? says Jonsson, one of eight Northwestern University students who traveled from Illinois to Texas to investigate the case in 2000...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on January 29, 2010 (boomark / email).