Talk:Barry Lee Fairchild
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[edit] NPOV disaster
This whole article is written as if Fairchild is innocent. There are plenty of weasel words and arguments that blatantly violate POV. I would start to fix it myself but I have no idea where to even start. StaticElectric (talk) 02:30, 5 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Blatantly Biased
Let me say right up front that I have my own personal bias and I do mean personal. Marjorie 'Greta' Mason was my college roommate and my dearest friend. I knew her family, her fiancée and her dreams. To read this page, and so many others online, who only speak of the supposed injustice done to Barry Lee Fairchild, makes me want to scream - and cry. Why do so many people care so much about this man and so little about about a beautiful, vivacious, young woman who chose to pursue a life's work of caring for others and who was brutally kidnapped, raped multiple times and shot twice in the head?
Mr. Fairchild was no angel. He and his brother, who most likely was the second man and actual shooter, were already suspects in other crimes, including rape. Mr. Fairchild may have been functionally retarded, I never met him so I can't say for sure. Was there abuse by some of the police? I wouldn't doubt it; you're talking about the deep south. Do I approve of any of that? NO, I do not. I also do not support the death penalty although Greta's murder came close to making me change my mind. But contrary to what all of these website's want to portray about Mr. Fairchild, he was involved in her murder and he was not only capable of understanding right from wrong, he was capable and he did, lie to protect himself and most likely, his brother.
These websites want people to believe that his conviction was completely based on his (supposedly coerced) confession. It wasn't. There was other evidence of his involvement. One of the most telling regarded Greta's jewelery. Once Mr. Fairchild had made his confession he was asked what had happened to the jewelery? Since it was gone when she was found that wasn't information that any police officer could 'feed' to Mr. Fairchild. After confirming that whoever had been given any of it would not be held accountable if they didn't know where it came from, Mr. Fairchild told the police that he had given Greta's watch (her 22nd birthday present from her father) to his sister. The watch was found in his sister's possession and the watch was identified by Greta's parents.
I understand people's desire and right to object to what they see as something terribly wrong. The problem with 99% of these people and these websites, including this wikepedia page) is that they don't investigate the facts. They hear or read one side of the story that relates to the cause they're screaming about and that's it! They run with it without checking the veracity of anything. Most distressing is what all this does to the victim's family and friends. All these people are so busy screaming for justice for what actually is a guilty person, they give no thought at all to the murder victim, Marjorie 'Greta' Mason, an amazing young woman who's life, so filled with love, joy and promise, was brutally cut short.
65.12.186.32 (talk) 04:49, 22 February 2008 (UTC)Lorraine Glynn
