Her hands were tied behind her back with a telephone cord, and a pair of tights was wrapped around her throat, with a knife under her head.<\/p>\n
Ms Hemme was shackled in leather wrist restraints and so heavily sedated she “could not hold her head up straight” or “articulate anything beyond monosyllabic responses” when she was first questioned over Ms Jeschke’s death, according to her lawyers.<\/p>\n
They alleged in a petition seeking her exoneration that authorities ignored her “wildly contradictory” statements and suppressed evidence implicating Michael Holman, then a 22-year-old police officer who tried to use the murdered woman’s credit card on the day her body was found.<\/p>\n
The judge found that “no evidence whatsoever outside of Ms Hemme’s unreliable statements connects her to the crime”.<\/p>\n
“In contrast,” he added, “this Court finds that the evidence directly ties Holman to this crime and murder scene.”<\/p>\n
Holman, who had been a suspect and was questioned at the time, was fired after investigations for burglary and insurance fraud, and died in 2015.<\/p>\n
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