Everyone agreed that the serial rapes committed in California were the work of one man. This is interesting, as Chessman, a career criminal, let’s be frank, was awaiting trail for robbery in the jug when two of them took place!
And, we have James Hanratty. Executed for murder. This guy was a perpetual car thief with no record for sex or violence, yet he was supposed to have accosted a courting couple, shot them both and raped her.
All very well and good, until the evidence of the surviving woman that the killer had mad-staring blue eyes was suppressed and altered once the brown-eyed Hanratty was arrested. Plus her evidence that the killer had no idea how to drive or start a common British car simply didn’t cut any ice with Authority that no way was Hanratty the man.