And the Sheriff to his discredit could have stepped in at any time and said no, you're breaking the county on a case has no value at all. But because the guy confessed and Gary Tabor was a very devout Christian and Neil McClanahan was a hyperdevout Christian. He confessed and these guys were convinced there was a devil and that was the end of it. I've never been able to get a satisfactory explanation for why this case could not be reopened. The associations that you might turn to donate money, none of them will touch it with a ten foot pole because of the confessions, and to overturn that and to go right back to the bones of contention is more than they're willing to underwrite.
People think it was a miscarriage of justice.
Only in the most general sense. I was very much impressed with how delicate and fragile the law is. The law is the people and the people have spoken. This is Thurston County. Their idea of the law is something that somebody else does.