Re: A&E Documentary on Roger Keith Coleman
Hi Jesse :) I enjoyed reading your informative post. I wanted to ask a few questions, if I may. I have read on some other boards, where some people said that Roger and Wanda were having an affair, and that that was the reason his DNA was found in her body. My question to that is if Roger was, in fact, having an affair with Wanda at the time of the murder (and I am not saying that he did; this was another's opinion on a different board, just to clarify), why did he not tell police this fact? If my life were at stake, I would surely tell police about an affair that I was having with the victim, so authorities would then know why my DNA was found at the crime scene.
I am not aware that Mr. McCoy was allegedly, according to your statement, involved with a drug ring out of Pikeville, KY. Do you have proof of that, or is it just some kind of rumor that you heard? Blood in and blood out may be the credo of drug rings, but they usually do not kill people (females) in that manner. I am not contradicting you, so please don't take offense.
I have read Tucker's book on this case, "May God Have Mercy", and, as I understand it, the girl that you are referring to, that was told "I'll do you like I done that girl on Slate Creek" was found dead, not from her throat being cut, but from a drug overdose. Is Mr. Tucker wrong in his research?
Wanda McCoy's defensive wounds-I was not at the autopsy, so I would have no way of knowing the extent of Mrs. McCoy's defensive wounds. All I can say is that in many cases, victims put up a struggle and for one reason or another, their attacker did not have any marks on their bodies. Why, I don't know. I guess that would depend upon how many days after the attack the alleged perpetrator was examined by police. Perhaps they covered the marks with makeup of some sort. Both things are possible.
Probably one thing that bothers me the most about this case is that in all the events leading up to the murder of Mrs. McCoy: the attack on the school teacher, the incident at the Buchanan County Public Library, and the obscene phone calls to classmates; in all of these instances, Roger Keith Coleman insisted that those witnesses were lying and that he was telling the truth-he was innocent. Everyone was lying BUT Roger Keith. Why is that? Can we honestly believe that in every one of those incidents, people were lying? Was the schoolteacher lying about being nearly raped by Roger Coleman? Were the librarians lying when they said Roger Coleman came into the library masturbating, then ejaculating on the desk and the floor? Were the schoolgirls lying when they said Roger Coleman called them, telling them his sick sexual fantasies?
My objective here is not to start an argument with you, nor is my intent to disrespect you. I only have some questions I wanted to ask, and some thoughts I wanted to put out there. Obviously, I did not know Roger Coleman or any of the witnesses involved in any of these incidents. My personal opinion is that Roger was a very sick young man, whose initial fantasies eventually were not enough to satisfy him, and his behavior unfortunately escalated to violence and murder. I am also troubled that Roger seemed to fool so many people. Jim McCloskey of Centurion Ministries, who fully believed in Roger's innocence, and was floored when the DNA tests implicated him in the murder. Kitty Behan, his attorney at Arnold & Porter, who still, to this day, disputes those DNA tests and believes Roger was innocent. There's also Sharon Paul, the girlfriend and schoolteacher that he met while on deathrow, still believes him to be innocent. Marie Deans, his death row advocate, who said she never felt that Roger was lying to her or trying to pull the wool over her eyes. It is amazing to me that these people were apparently duped by Roger Coleman. At least when the DNA test results came out, Jim McCloskey had the grace to say that he was duped, and that he now believes he was, in his words, dealing with a sociopath. Fact is, psychopaths are extremely good at their game; they know what buttons to push, how to plead their case, how to say all the right things. How to get people to believe them. How to appear so sincere that no one would ever believe they were being less than truthful. Anyway, I appreciate the opportunity to lay out my thoughts on this board (jumbled as they may be
Thanks for listening.
