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Elementary 2.2:: The Sarah Dyer Evidence On The Scott Watson Case
In 2016, an explosive new book blew open a controversial murder case. It centred on Scott Watson's conviction over the double slaying of young friends Olivia Hope and Ben Smart on New Year's Day 1998.
That book is called Elementary, and it became an instant #1 bestseller.
The second stage of that process is the release of the complete testimony of key witnesses in volumes like this. One of the biggest problems of this police investigation was fading and contaminated memories. These new evidence volumes will allow you to see for yourself how stories changed the more people discussed them.
These volumes follow a overview; police witness statements; depositions evidence; full trial evidence; conclusion. Just like Elementary, typos and misspellings in the official evidence remain uncorrected for legal reasons.
Reviewers of Elementary complained about the typos, but quotes are sacred, warts and all. You are reading the statements as police took them down. You will also discover that the trial transcripts have their own shorthand code for longer or common words. It should become self-explanatory as you get used to it.
Trial evidence is led in most cases by a Crown prosecutor. They are not permitted to put words in the mouth of the witness (ask leading questions). The Defence lawyer then gets to cross-examine (XXN). Defence attorneys are allowed to ask leading questions. Finally, the prosecutor is allowed to ask further questions (reexamination or RXN) to clarify points arising from the cross.
Links will appear in the text when other witnesses are named who have relevant evidence, so you can quickly build up your own database on this highly-debated case.
If, at any point, you want to stop and get an overview of the case to understand the context, simply download Elementary from one of the links embedded in the text.
In this book, after an initial overview chapter to set the scene, you will find the full evidence given by Sarah Dyer, one of the last three witnesses to see Ben and Olivia alive. The evidence of Guy Wallace and Hayden Morresey - the only other two people to have seen the mystery boat the couple stepped onto - appears in the linked volumes.
You will see how Dyer has never raised the issue of the mystery boat being a "ketch", that she never saw portholes and never saw a second mast. Nor does she ever describe the mystery boat as wooden, or made of timber.
The boat Dyer described was very different from Guy Wallace's so-called mystery ketch, so let's find out where her evidence takes us
That book is called Elementary, and it became an instant #1 bestseller.
The second stage of that process is the release of the complete testimony of key witnesses in volumes like this. One of the biggest problems of this police investigation was fading and contaminated memories. These new evidence volumes will allow you to see for yourself how stories changed the more people discussed them.
These volumes follow a overview; police witness statements; depositions evidence; full trial evidence; conclusion. Just like Elementary, typos and misspellings in the official evidence remain uncorrected for legal reasons.
Reviewers of Elementary complained about the typos, but quotes are sacred, warts and all. You are reading the statements as police took them down. You will also discover that the trial transcripts have their own shorthand code for longer or common words. It should become self-explanatory as you get used to it.
Trial evidence is led in most cases by a Crown prosecutor. They are not permitted to put words in the mouth of the witness (ask leading questions). The Defence lawyer then gets to cross-examine (XXN). Defence attorneys are allowed to ask leading questions. Finally, the prosecutor is allowed to ask further questions (reexamination or RXN) to clarify points arising from the cross.
Links will appear in the text when other witnesses are named who have relevant evidence, so you can quickly build up your own database on this highly-debated case.
If, at any point, you want to stop and get an overview of the case to understand the context, simply download Elementary from one of the links embedded in the text.
In this book, after an initial overview chapter to set the scene, you will find the full evidence given by Sarah Dyer, one of the last three witnesses to see Ben and Olivia alive. The evidence of Guy Wallace and Hayden Morresey - the only other two people to have seen the mystery boat the couple stepped onto - appears in the linked volumes.
You will see how Dyer has never raised the issue of the mystery boat being a "ketch", that she never saw portholes and never saw a second mast. Nor does she ever describe the mystery boat as wooden, or made of timber.
The boat Dyer described was very different from Guy Wallace's so-called mystery ketch, so let's find out where her evidence takes us
65 pages, Kindle Edition
Published May 3, 2016
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About the author
Ian Wishart
46 books19 followersIan Wishart is a multi-award winning investigative journalist and bestselling author of more than 20 books, who's now in his fourth decade in the news business. His writing style has often been compared to John Grisham by reviewers.
He's been a radio News Director, a Chief of Staff for TV3 News and a magazine editor. His work has featured in the Times of London, Daily Mail, New Zealand Herald and America's massive Coast to Coast radio programme - to name a few. His books Totalitaria, Air Con and Vitamin D became Amazon bestsellers worldwide.
While writing his first book, The Paradise Conspiracy, Wishart's TVNZ office was discovered to have been bugged, his home was broken into, the manuscript for the book stolen, and an attempt was made on his life. Needless to say, he survived to write the story.
The first four chapters of The Paradise Conspiracy inspired movie director Geoff Murphy ("Young Guns II", "Under Siege 2") to produce the movie "Spooked" starring Cliff Curtis ("Runaway Jury", "Live Free or Die Hard") in a loose portrayal of Wishart's role as an investigative journalist.
He's been shot at, tear-gassed and stalked, but Wishart says his motivation remains telling the stories that "need to be told", whether its new leads on cold case murders, or government espionage.
As well as writing books, Wishart also divides his time between operating the http://www.investigatedaily.com and http://www.ianwishartpublishing.com websites - the latter catering to his writing and publishing clients.
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