It was a long time coming, but Barry Beach will get another day in court. You might remember reading about his case in one of my previous blog posts. Read it again HERE.
In 1979 someone killed 17 year-old Kim Nees near Poplar, Montana. Barry Beach was convicted of that deliberate homicide on April 13, 1984. In May of 1984, he was sentenced to 100 years in the Montana State Prison without the possibility of parole.
Back in April 2008, I wrote, “There are more questions than answers in this case. I believe he should get a new trial.”
And now he will, which is good. There’s a website set up with info about the Barry Beach case. You can access it HERE.
I’ve always felt that there needed to be some closure to the Beach case, because things just did not add up.
There’s another case that I have followed for decades and that is the case of Jeffrey McDonald, the Green Beret doctor who was convicted of killing his wife and two young daughters at Ft. Bragg, North Carolina, in 1970. You might have read the book or saw the movie, “Fatal Vision” or maybe read the other book that tells a different story, “Fatal Justice.”
I don’t believe McDonald is guilty. You can go to a website about Jeffrey McDonald HERE.

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