A True-Crime Star’s Lurid Claims Sent a Man to Die. Her Key Witness Just Recanted.
The DNA expert at Jeff Prible’s trial accuses then-prosecutor Kelly Siegler of using his testimony in an “inflammatory” way. The post A True-Crime Star’s Lurid Claims Sent a Man to Die. Her Key Witness Just Recanted. appeared first on The Intercept .
A man named Jeffrey Prible was sentenced to death in 2002 for the murder of a Houston family, based on testimony provided by a DNA expert named William Watson. However, Watson has recently recanted his opinion, stating that the prosecutors, including Harris County Assistant District Attorney Kelly Siegler, misrepresented his testimony during the trial.
Siegler's team claimed that Prible's DNA found in Tirado's mouth was evidence of a brutal sexual assault that took place just before Tirado was shot, leading to Prible's conviction. Prible's innocence was reevaluated when Watson's recantation was presented, and Watson mentioned that he would provide more thorough explanations if asked to testify today.
The prosecutors are accused of distorting Watson's conclusions to secure a conviction and Siegler has been portrayed as a true-crime TV star in Oxygen Network shows. Prible maintains his innocence and his legal team is now reevaluating the case with the new evidence, including Watson's recantation.
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