Stanley Dishon occasionally lived with Jessica and her parents before the murder. Spainhour said he thought Dishon should have been a person of interest after the crime, but investigators chose to look at people who they thought were more involved. Lawyer John Spainhour, who represented Brooks at trial, said his former client is pleased that investigators are taking another look at the case and hopes a conviction would fully exonerate him in the eyes of people who have followed the case closely. Greenwell, elected sheriff insaid Wednesday that he is now sure "we have indicted the right person" and that Brooks had nothing to do with the crime. Wicker, a Louisville defense lawyer, said the sex charges against Stanley Dishon three years after Jessica's murder was an "obvious lead" that "should have been top of the list to follow up on. Former prosecutor Kent Wicker said prosecutors will "start with the tremendous load of having to explain why they got it wrong the first time and why they should have any credibility now.
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Criminal law experts said Wednesday that the previous trial will make it extremely difficult for prosecutors to win a conviction of Stanley Dishon now.
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David "Bucky" Brooks, a neighbor of Jessica's, was charged in January but set free about two years later.Ī judge declared a mistrial after a detective testified that Brooks had failed a lie-detector test, which is not admissible. The development is the latest turn in a tortured case in which authorities already unsuccessfully tried another man for the murder. No date has been set for Dishon's arraignment on the kidnapping or murder charge, for which he could face the death penalty. Greenwell said detectives began to look at the uncle after receiving a tip but declined to give details.ĭishon also was indicted in August on charges of raping, sodomizing and sexually abusing another girl 31 years ago.
Michael Mann, Bullitt County commonwealth's attorney, wouldn't comment on why Dishon, 55, had not been questioned about Jessica's death.
He was sentenced for those crimes to 10 years in prison and permanently placed on Kentucky's sex offender registry.ĭuring an emotional news conference Wednesday, Greenwell, who was a deputy at the time of Jessica's murder and the first to arrive at her home when she was reported missing in Septembersaid he doesn't know why Dishon wasn't interviewed previously. Victims of the sex offenses that Dishon was convicted of three years later included another niece. FBI investigators had concluded in that Jessica was "violently sexually assaulted. But Stanley Dishon, Jessica's Dishon's uncle, didn't emerge as a suspect in the year-old's death until about six months ago and wasn't interviewed about the murder until recently, Bullitt County Sheriff Dave Greenwell said Wednesday.
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