CapeCodToday Blog Chowder

A cover-up and a frame job? Try two dimwit animals, one of whom is walking free. Give me a break. O'Keefe has always been afraid that if he pushes the case against Frazier, it ends up backfiring (b/c of the "alibi") and he loses McCowen too. There is no cover up. Just one of two guilty men walking free (and to OKeefe's credit, that's better than two.) But anyone anywhere who thinks Frazier wasn't in on this needs to review the facts. Of course there may be fibers that are McCowen's. He raped her. What I cannot understand is the dismissiveness with regard to Frazier. This is a snick with a cop uncle, right?

Jack, I look forward to your next entry regarding Frazier. In response to much of what has been written about race, I think its a distraction. True, cape cod is whiter than Dick Cheney's butt-cheek, and McCowen is admittedly black, but ultimately he admitted he was there, his DNA was found in the victim, and for anyone to portray this as the result of white cape cod being unable to deal with a black man having consensual sex with a white woman ignores the murder itself. What many have had a hard time comprehending with McCowen's story is the extraordinary coincidence that she would have consensual sex with a trash collector she did not know during a time a day when her daughter would have been awake, and then be killed shortly thereafter. Fortunately, people appear to have realzied that just because an accused is black, and a victim is white that itself does not raise reasonable doubt.

Jack, I look forward to your next entry regarding Frazier. In response to much of what has been written about race, I think its a distraction. True, cape cod is whiter than Dick Cheney's butt-cheek, and McCowen is admittedly black, but ultimately he admitted he was there, his DNA was found in the victim, and for anyone to portray this as the result of white cape cod being unable to deal with a black man having consensual sex with a white woman ignores the murder itself. What many have had a hard time comprehending with McCowen's story is the extraordinary coincidence that she would have consensual sex with a trash collector she did not know during a time a day when her daughter would have been awake, and then be killed shortly thereafter. Fortunately, people appear to have realzied that just because an accused is black, and a victim is white that itself does not raise reasonable doubt.

Sorry, my earlier comments were directed at Jack. Good reporting aside (and blogging about good reporting aside) I am interested in knowing whether you personally (and I mean you Jack) feel that Frazier got away with something here. If you don't want to tell me what you feel, let me know if you got the sense that the prosecutors ultimately think Jeremy was involved.

I'm new to this blog, but I've been watching this trial intently from afar. Regarding Frazier, I'm just not convinced he wasnit involved (actually, Im quite convinced he was). First, could charges be brought against him? Second, is this at all likely? Third, do you get any sense from the prosecutors here that while they're happy to have secured a verdict against McCowen, they're bothered by the fact that a man walking the streets today was also there on that horrible evening? As a small detail, if Frazier was either making or receiving calls, can't they triangulate to the location of his cell phone and trace his movements that evening? Doesn't it just seem so obviously that these guys were both involved? It bothers me that the difficulties of trying both of these two would result in one of them walking free. Something else must be known about Frazier.