tire mouth of healthy teeth was extracted from John Mark Byers four years after the murders had taken place. The drug that had allegedly made his teeth fall out was Tegretol. Byers took the Tegretol to help with violent outbursts he had due to a brain tumor. In his stepson’s autopsy report, there was an acute amount of Tegretol in his system. Why did an 8-year-old boy have a potentially lethal sedative in his system when it was prescribed for his stepfather? No one knows exactly how to take John Mark Byers. Currently, Byers is in prison for selling drugs to an undercover police officer.The same judge who sat for the original trial denied the first appeal. In preparation for the second appeal, HBO decide to make another documentary to update the situations surrounding the case. “Paradise Lost 2: Revelations” debuted this past March, right after the decision was made in the second appeal. Revelations showed all McNeal 10this new forensic evidence and the suspicions surrounding John Mark Byers. However, the decision would still be up to the original trial judge, Judge Burnett. Judge Burnett denied the appeal. He personally concluded that the “bite marks were not human origin” (wm3.org). This man has no training in any type of forensic science. Nevertheless, to admit the original trial had been a travesty would damage the police and Judge Burnett himself. It would not be politically convenient to do this in an election year. I am neither a lawyer nor a police officer. I do not profess to have more knowledge than the attorneys, prosecutors, or investigators of this case. However, I do have a brain and I am capable of logical thought. I have yet to see one piece of evidence to convict Jessie, Jason, or Damien of this vicious crime. What I see is plenty of reasonable doubt. The trial was not fair. The jurors were biased because of the media’s influence between the trial and the murders...
