Epstein Secrets

n racing to the MacDonald house, who saw a woman in a floppy =at. After a description went out, a 28-year-old drug user and =arcotics informer named Helena Stoeckley, who lived in nearby =ayetteville, N.C., was picked up and interrogated. As it turned out, =he had admitted to at least six people that she was in

first brought Stoeckley to see prosecutor James Blackburn, he heard =er give a detailed confession to the prosecutor. Blackburn, he said, =hen told Stoeckley that, if she repeated her account under oath in =acDonald's trial, he would have to charge her with murder. =Blackburn, who was disbarred in 1993 fo

d =ome on the night of the murder, high on drugs, wearing a blond wig, =hite boots and a floppy hat and accompanied by three male Vietnam =eterans. Stoeckley recalled details dovetailing with MacDonald's description, =ncluding that she had held a candle, as MacDonald claimed. He had said =hat she tried to

ruders had come in contact with Colette. 195 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_017282 4.2.12 WC: 191694 By the time the victims' bodies were exhumed, a woman named Helena Stoeckley had told police and others that she and three friends had been in the MacDonald house on the night of the murders and that her friends had committed

d others that she and three friends had been in the MacDonald house on the night of the murders and that her friends had committed the crimes. Though Stoeckley's word alone may not have been worth very much—she was known to be a drug addict—she provided some details, which tended to corroborate her story and

is innocence if he were to be given an opportunity to subpoena evidence and witnesses. In his case several crucial witnesses have died. These include Helena Stoeckley and her boyfriend, who may have been the actual killers, and Jim Britt, the Deputy Marshall who would have testified that the prosecutor improperly p

boyfriend, who may have been the actual killers, and Jim Britt, the Deputy Marshall who would have testified that the prosecutor improperly pressured Stoeckley to “forget” what she had seen—that is, to lie about her memory. ™ Tn 2009, I challenged Justice Scalia, who has written that he would have to leave