The court conduct was equally as bad. A competency hearing was repeatedly …show more content…
The palm print was shown not to match her, Williamson, or Fritz. Gore’s handprint was not examined for a match. After several years, when the Ada police began to feel they had to close the case, Carter’s body was exhumed. Her palm print was again taken and this time (name), (job), decided it matched. Williamson and Fritz were still considered prime suspects, if the palm print belonged to Carter herself. Glen Gore was again not only not considered, but downright excluded. The palm print is one of many examples in which the original investigation turned up one result, the investigators and prosecution wanted a different answer, and then, suddenly, the analyst realized years later that they had made a mistake and changed their opinion to suit the