The Death of April Tucker
This case is a prime example of a case where investigators have tunnel vision and refuse to clearly look at and examine all of the evidence of a case. Some reports say it is also a case of clear prosecutorial misconduct but in my opinion, and I do not say this likely, despite never seeing it stated in my research, it is also a case of ineffective counsel. In the early afternoon of January 4, 1989 in Emory Texas, about an hour east of Dallas, Debbie Tucker Loveless and her common-law husband, John Miller had realized that Debbie's four year old daughter, April Tucker had wandered off. They began looking for her and would find her in a wooded area near a barn on their property. April was on her stomach and nearly naked but awake it seems at that point. The couple reached the child and she seemed to have several scratches but otherwise fine, that is until they turned her over. She had an extremely large “gash” on her right thigh. Debbie ran back to the home to get the ke...