Jonelle Matthews trial: Jury deliberating Steven Pankey's fate in second murder trial

Published: Oct 28, 2022 Duration: 00:01:59 Category: News & Politics

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Greeley lost some of his innocence. When he kidnapped and murdered Janelle Matthews, a master manipulator who murdered a 12 year old girl in cold blood. That's how prosecutors describe Stephen Pankey during their hour long closing argument. Pankey is on trial for killing Janelle Matthews and then burying her body in a remote field in well county in 1984. Janelle's remains were finally found 35 years later in July of 2019, by oil workers digging in that field. Janelle was at the wrong place at the wrong time. And he kidnapped and murdered her. According to prosecutors, Pankey killed Janelle to get back at a local church that excommunicated panky a few years before. Janelle's father was a board member of the church, the defendant. Hated everyone in a position of power with Sunny View Church of the Nazarene. During the trial, prosecutors pointed to the numerous statements Panky made to police and prosecutors over the years, that he knew where Janelle's body was located and that he would help solve the crime in exchange for immunity. You're asking that you find him not guilty, but during her closing argument, Panky's lawyer said panky statements to police and prosecutors were false and that panky offered them simply to get attention, describing her client as socially awkward and quote. A little different. She said Panky had nothing to do with Janelle Matthews's murder and that there is absolutely no physical evidence to prove otherwise. How can an innocent person get convicted? How does that even happen? This case. This prosecution. That's how it could happen. When there is no physical evidence that Steve Pankey was ever at the scene of the crime.

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