Court transcripts show that there was no policy in place that required detectives to change their gloves between collecting each DNA sample; and, the suit alleges, they didnt secure the Valley View apartments dumpster, where key pieces of evidence were found, for three days after Jinagas body was discovered. And that wouldnt surprise me at all with her, Lee said. Oh crap, he responded, before insisting that he didnt remember why he called her. One juror mentioned a lack of security on the dumpster where a majority of the evidence pointing to Fair was discovered and the potential for tampering. The suit describes an investigation that was so badly handled it can only be characterized as bizarre., Editors picks Detective Coats is now a captain in the department.). He faced two trials. The friend ran into her neighbor outside of her door. for almost nine years for this crime hinged on DNA: trace amounts found on Jinagas neck, her robe, and the duct tape used to restrain her. 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Then, due to inexcusable delays in Fairs trial and prolonged pretrial detention, he spent more than nine years in the King County Correctional Facility as an innocent man, in conditions of inhumane confinement that are well known to have a detrimental effect on mental health, the suit contends. The night before Jinaga was discovered, the tenants of the apartment building where she had lived hosted a Halloween party, according to court documents. Nearly a year later. Listen in while Alisha and Emily discuss the twists of ever-changing alibis and the overwrought and complicated DNA testing that may have set a killer free. IPD turned the case over to the county attorneys office, who said the following via a phone interview: The charges have been filed and they speak for themselves. According to police logs, in February 2010, Coats reached out to Allison DuBois the psychic who was the inspiration for the CBS show Medium asking if she could locate Jinagas missing camera and cell phone and if there was a witness out there that they hadnt talked to yet. He usually lived in the Central District, a historically Black neighborhood in an otherwise very white city. Now, at 38, Fair is trying to build a life from scratch. All the while, though, he had faith. This week, his legal team filed a new, expanded complaint including ten more pages detailing their allegations, and adding the prosecutor on the case, and the rest of the detectives who participated in the investigation, to the list of defendants. The first was one of Jinagas neighbors, a white man in his twenties the same neighbor whod entered the apartment with Jinagas family friend and an early prime suspect in the case. The neighbors DNA was also the primary profile found on an oil bottle, in a bag with the red robe presumed to have been worn by Jinaga that night. During his trial, his aunt and uncle showed up at the courthouse every day that his case was on the docket, even if he wasnt going to be there. After the jury in his first trial deadlocked in 2017, King County prosecutors tried Fair again in 2019. In August 2009, a man named Emanuel Fair was interviewed by police. She volunteered at the. READ news articles about hundreds of cases. Before Fairs trial, the state agreed that evidence that linked the neighbor to possibly being involved with the killing was admissible, but explained that he may have participated in the crime with Fair and that evidence incriminating the neighbor did not mean that Fair was free from wrongdoing. Leis family wonders what would be different had Jones sentence been more severe or longer. She had a keen interest in engineering and won several innovation competitions. Never in his 27-year career had Coats experienced such a challenging case, before or after the Jinaga homicide, he said. On Oct. 31, 2008, 24-year-old Arpana Jinaga dressed up in a Little Red Riding Hood costume and prepared for a Friday night to remember. After her graduation, she got a job as a software engineer at EMC, in a suburb of Seattle. Under the law, probable cause requires you to look at the whole picture, says Ryan Dreveskracht, one of Fairs lawyers. I just want to be myself.. Coats and another Redmond detective confronted the neighbor about his calls to Jinaga, but then released him and returned his phone without examining it. They cuffed him, put him in the back of the car, and started interviewing him on the 20 minute drive from Seattle to Redmonds police station. Four men have been arrested in connection with the victim's death: Cameron Lee Johnson (age 29), Sylvester Lynn Jones (age 33), Brandon Nicholas Peyton (age 25) and Tyler Blake Slaton (age 20). Choose wisely! I was lucky for a while, he says, because I had a cell that looked out onto the highway, so I could watch the cars going by., He Spent Eight Years In Jail Without a Conviction. Just hours after that party ended, in the early morning of Nov. 1, 2008, one of the hosts of the Halloween party a 24-year-old software engineer and Indian immigrant named Arpana Jinaga . In this episode, Alisha tells the story of Arpana Jinaga, a young, beautiful, incredibly educated and intelligent immigrant woman whose unbounded potential was cut short by the fateful events of Halloween night, 2008. Coats said he was disappointed with the decision, but that he respects the right of any defendant to be judged by a jury of his peers. I just dont want to be around nobody, he said. Phone records show he made a handful of phone calls between 3 and 4 in the morning some to a friend who was a former sex worker, and a few to Potts, leaving voicemails that sounded like pocket dials. All the while, Fair, whose family was unable to foot his seven-figure bail, said he had faith he would one day walk away free from a charge alleging he murdered Arpana Jinaga, 24, in her Redmond apartment after a Halloween party in 2008. She had opened her third-floor apartment to Fair and dozens of other partygoers, who traipsed in and out during the festivities. . There were no witnesses who saw Fair after he spent time with the neighbor. Another resident at the apartment complex commited suicide just days after her death, and his DNA was never compared to the crime scene. . According to their statements to police, they didnt approach her, or check to see if she was alive; they ran outside and called 911. According to police logs, in February 2010, Coats reached out to Allison DuBois the psychic who was the inspiration for the CBS show. "We are in the early stages of this investigation and it will likely be several days before we have more extensive information." But, it says, the evidence that implicated them was vital information to ultimately charge Emanuel with first degree murder. Source. After zeroing in on Fair because of his race and rap sheet, investigators relied on cherry-picked DNA evidence while disregarding other genetic findings and suspects as part of a gather facts that fit the theory strategy, the suit alleges. A recent immigrant from India and a graduate of Rutgers University, Jinaga had worked at EMC in Bellevue. At one time, Emanuel Fair was the longest-serving inmate in the King County Jail, spending nine years behind bars without being convicted of a crime. He spent three years in prison for the charge. "The friend found her dead, who immediately called the police," the spokesperson said.Arpana's murder is the fifth such incident of murder this year of students from Andhra Pradesh living in the US.A brilliant student, Arpana was one among the top 20 winners in Digital Signal Controller Design Contest. The jury ultimately found Fair not guilty, after being presented with the evidence from defense and what was allowed to be said by prosecutors. The police on Tuesday questioned a number of friends and work colleagues of Arpana along with those living in her apartment complex.In the autopsy report, the cause of her death is listed as asphyxia due to ligature strangulation and the manner of death is homicide. Potts told police that he was having trouble with his phone but he was also still on parole for his previous conviction, and had an outstanding warrant for failing to update his address with his parole officer. It gives you key insights into your YouTube channel.https://www.Tubebuddy.com/ExploreTheUnknown3 The key difference between them and Fair, the suit alleges, is that none of them were Black. The neighbor initially neglected to tell detectives about phone calls he made to Jinaga at 3 a.m. Later on the morning of her slaying, he drove to the Canadian border and attempted to cross it without a passport but was denied entry. Tornado confirmed in Newton Co. Monday morning; no warning issued by NWS, Joplin Public Library displays newest exhibit featuring 'Lost and Found' Items, Local school district celebrates young readers with annual ceremony, Local man charged with Drug Trafficking and Illegally possessing firearms, 'Disgraced' healthcare professional steals over $1,000,000 from patients with COVID-19 scheme, News To Know: historic blizzards out west turn to mudslide fears, and new house committee looks to curb Chinese aggression. The case is being investigated by Independence Police Department and the KBI. Shed been gagged, beaten and strangled during an apparent sexual attack. HYDERABAD: Amid emotional scenes, Hyderabadi youngster Arpana Jinaga, who was a software quality engineer with EMC2 in Seattle, was laid to rest at a burial ground in Shaikpet on Sunday morning . Suspect is an investigative series about mislaid justice and the kinds of weighty decisions that detectives, lawyers, and jurors make every day - decisions that, once made, are almost impossible to reverse.Season 2: Vanished in the Snow chronicles the disappearance of 12-year-old Jonelle Matthews. Detectives with the Redmond Police Department (RPD) obtained Fairs cell phone records and discovered he made or received 20 calls between 1:54 a.m. and 4:48 a.m. Three of those calls were made to the tenant he was staying with, during the exact time Fair said he was sleeping in the hosts apartment while she was present. The first, in 2017, ended in a hung jury because of one juror, who said after the trial that when he looked at Fair, he saw a thug with tattoos on his hands. But in his second trial, which ended on June 11, 2019, a jury determined that the detectives and prosecutors had never had a strong enough case against him. Coats zeroed in on Emanuel about three weeks into the investigation. He went on afterwards, he got his degree, hes never had a crime., Fair, who had only met the neighbor at the party that night, said prosecutors immunity deal was just another biased action taken to strengthen the case against him that backfired, because the neighbor didnt even implicate me, he implicated himself.. Her father, a head professor of engineering in India, encouraged he to move to the US to attend Rutgers University. Her nude body was found two days later in the . 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