True Crime Stories

This blog is much different than most. It is one of those cases in which you cannot tell the story of one crime without telling the story of another. Actually in this case there are at least three crimes involved, all committed at different times. In fact, they were all committed in different decades! Jean-Claude Dominique grew up in Haiti. In the late 1970's a nurse named Eliette, who lived in the states sponsored Jean-Claude with the Immigration Service. Jean-Claude and Eliette would marry in 1980 while Eliette helped pay to put her husband through medical school. They took an apartment in Brooklyn and lived there with their two children, a son (born in 1982) and a daughter (born in 1984) until about 1993 when they moved to Long Island. By then Jean-Claude was an established and well liked doctor and Eliette worked as an intensive care nurse. From the outside, and even from the inside, at least to Eliette, the couple had it all. They had decided to keep ...

In the early morning hours of November 3, 2006 newlywed, Justine Abshire's body was found on the side of the road in Barboursville, Orange County, Virginia by her husband, Eric. He, and later his defense would say she was a victim of a hit and run accident.  A prosecutor would say it was only staged to look that way.   As I have stated in earlier blogs when someone, be it a defense attorney or a prosecutor, needs an "expert" for their case they are sure to find one to tell them what they want to hear.  The problem is that not experts can be right when they are arguing separate sides.  Since I am obviously not a medical expert or even a novice, especially in this area, it is hard for me to judge as to which scenario given by the experts is more likely to be the correct one.  The strange thing about this one is I almost feel as if the injuries suffered by Justine Abshire as described by each of the experts gave more credence to the other sides case and yet their...