Dr. David Oxley was the Medical Examiner
for Southwestern Virginia for thirty years or more. He has now retired and
the police and prosecutors have lost a valuable asset. He gave them most
anything they wanted in all those years he was working. These people, in
the Virginia State Crime Laboratories, are just police in lab coats. Thoroughness
was not one of Oxley's strong points. As in the case of Blaine Hodges, you
may remember, he had the assistant roll the dead man out, made a cursory examination
on the body, and determined he had been dead longer than the other Hodges.
He, apparently, didn't take into account Blaine Hodges body had been baking
for an hour and a half in the upstairs of the house, right above the smoldering
fire. The bedroom where he lay was like a pizza oven, the blood was bubbling
from his head wound. Yet, Oxley said he had been dead longer than the rest
and it was never considered again.Dr William Mussallo, Assistant Medical Examiner at the time, wasn't a lot more thorough. I specifically asked Mussallo in person if he had examined Teresa Hodges mouth for other body fluids and he said he DID NOT. He is either incompetent or a liar. How can anyone do an autopsy and leave out something that important? Teresa Hodges was found on the couch on her stomach, placed there after she had been strangled, or strangled there, and she was wearing only panties. Her shorts were across the room and the rest of her clothing under her body. There was a large clump of hair on the stairs which indicates she put up a fight before being killed. Mussallo is now the Medical Examiner for North Dakota. "Dr." William Mussallo
He is either incompetent or a liar. Most of the evidence was not tested because Keesee and another "investigator" Humphreys ordered it halted in early September. They had determined Earl Bramblett was the killer and didn't want anything to show anyone else did it. |
There was no door on bedroom #1, just a curtain that had been pulled down and thrown
across Blaine Hodges Body. The Bedroom door #2 was almost closed. The landing at the
top left hand corner was where the fire was smoldering and flamed up when the front door
glass was broken, creating a draft, when the fire was first discovered.
As you can see from this picture, the Hodges house sustained very little structural damage except to the landing in the living room leading to the upstairs. The rest was cosmetic and all would have cost very little to repair. The house was owned by one of Blaine Hodges brothers and it was demolished a few months after the crime. There is nothing there except a vacant lot now.
This is the why and how nothing else was burned. The "Fire Investigator" knew nothing about fire, he was a State Police Investigator at the time, and came to court as a "Fire Expert" after he retired, and it was obvious he didn't know anything about fire from the tape that was made by the police and Fire Marshall . The tape was not played in court because it showed all sorts of wild guesses. Here is how the fire traveled after it had used the oxygen in the house because all the windows had been closed. There had been a scatter rug between the landing and couch.
Testimony by the fireman was he stepped on the landing and flooring fell into the basement and only another fireman grabbing him prevented him from falling into the basement also.
This is the letter written to Keesee two years after he first said the
piece of firearm couldn't be the murder weapon. Three months after
he says he found this "new evidence."
This is the document he gave much later saying he lied at trial.
Its people like William Conrad that makes forensic "evidence" worthless.
Here is William Conrad's picture. His lies killed Earl Bramblett.
