Dogs' Evidence Stands as Woman Waits in Prison
COLDSPRING — At 16, Megan Winfrey dreamed of being a country music star. She was boy-crazy and rebellious, obsessively primping and monopolizing the family phone.
“She ain’t got a bashful bone in her body,” said her father, Richard Winfrey Sr.
At 23, she is serving the third year of a life sentence for a brutal murder that rocked this tiny East Texas town more than seven years ago.
Megan Winfrey; her brother, Richard Winfrey Jr.; and their father were charged with conspiring to murder and rob Murray Burr, a longtime custodial worker at the high school the Winfreys attended.
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Comments (3)
Laura Sevy via Texas Tribune on Facebook
I can't imagine anything more assinine except maybe convicting someone based on a psychic's testimony. Oh wait, Texas has done that, too.
Sheila Screeton Phipps via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Good question--
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Why couldn't they have someone come in with a dowsing rod that would point out the guilty party?
Or just use the "sink or float" method?