Joshua Kieser
Appearances
48 Hours
She Knew Too Much
I believed I would win. What were they going to present? They had blood underneath the victim's fingernails. Was it yours? It was not my type. It was not my DNA. They did not have fingerprints, palm prints, no weapon, no paper trail, no motive.
48 Hours
She Knew Too Much
They chose to rely on the credibility of a man who first claimed that it was a light-skinned black man, then a carload of Mexicans, and then they finally settled on a pale white kid from Illinois.
48 Hours
She Knew Too Much
The only thing I remember is when the verdict came back, I went numb. I was confused. I remember hearing myself yelling and screaming, it wasn't me. It wasn't me.
48 Hours
She Knew Too Much
There was a point that I got attacked when I was in prison. There were some men who wanted to rape me, and they tried and they failed. Praise God. But in the process of defending myself, I got beat up quite bad and ended up in the hospital. On two occasions, I prayed for death. I didn't want to wake up.
48 Hours
She Knew Too Much
Absolutely not. I believe he was innocent, and I so found. I let out this just roar. I mean, I just let it out. I yelled. I shouted with everything I had in me.
48 Hours
She Knew Too Much
The only thing I remember is when the verdict came back, I went numb. Everything became like I was in a drum. Like all the voices, other than my own, were at a distance. I was yelling that... It wasn't me.
48 Hours
She Knew Too Much
I had never met Michelle Lawless. The night that Michelle was murdered, I was 350 miles away.
48 Hours
She Knew Too Much
I don't look back at my 16 years in prison and get hateful and angry about all of it. It does not excuse what was done to me. There is no excuse for that. It was wrong, it was evil.
48 Hours
She Knew Too Much
I sit there stunned. I immediately started to just be shaken and confused. And I didn't know what was happening. I just knew that something very real was happening.
48 Hours
She Knew Too Much
No. The first time I'd ever seen her is when my attorney brought me a picture of her obituary. That's the first time I had actually ever seen her face. When they began to ask me a few questions about some murder, I was like, why are they asking me about this stuff?
48 Hours
She Knew Too Much
I wasn't really that different than most kids that don't have an advantage. I was just going through some very, you know, difficult struggles.
48 Hours
She Knew Too Much
He settles into his chair like a split second later, literally comes halfway over his desk and accuses me of killing, and I quote, his little girl, and that they were charging me with first degree murder.