PASSAGE OF THE DAY: "Peiffer later called Bowie at the Dauphin County prison on September 10 to get answers, and prosecutors played the recored phone call for the York County jury to hear this week. In that call, Bowie talked about Dante and Leah, and had previously said he was going to call Children and Youth Services about how Dante was being treated. Peiffer also asked if he was dating Leah. “Nooo,” Bowie replied in exaggerated fashion on the call. He then explained how Leah regularly told him that her son banged his head off walls, and then would share photos of bruises. “‘Oh, he banged his head off the wall,’” Bowie said Leah would tell him. Bowie recalled that as he, Leah and Dante were driving together on Sept. 6, 2018,, Dante’s eyes rolled into the back of his head. Bowie was able to wake him up, but Dante still looked dumbfounded. Then, an hour before Leah needed to report into the homeless shelter where they were living, she said she needed to go to the emergency room for a migraine, Bowie told Peiffer on the call. “She’s afraid of the shelter, they would have [expletive] got him because he had those bruises on him,” Bowie said over the phone. “They’re trying to pin it on me because he was with me for a little bit of time.” “They’re doing a thorough investigation, the detective told me,” Peiffer said, trying to reassure Bowie over the phone back in 2018. Peiffer, still on the witness stand, scoffed in the courtroom as her remarks about the investigation were played on the speakers. As the phone call continued to be played for jurors, Bowie, sitting on the right side of the courtroom, began reaching for tissues as he heard himself say he only friended Leah on Facebook because of Dante. “On our way back to the hospital, I thought it was an animal cookie,” Bowie said. “I stuck my fingers down his throat, gave him mouth-to-mouth. I never experienced something like that…That’s something I don’t want to experience.""
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STORY: "Cops refused to take possible evidence in child's death case. 'We don't need them. He's guilty.' Reporter Jonathan Bergmueller; Penn Live. December 13, 2022.
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GIST: "Prosecutors are required by law to turn over all evidence that could work in a defendant’s favor before the case goes to trial.
The “Brady rule,” as it’s known, is designed to ensure a fair trial.
But when Laci Peiffer, 33, asked York city Detective-Sergeant Kyle Hower in 2018 if he wanted to search her garbage can for a bag of crackers and juice box that were thrown away from the night of Sept. 6, when Dante Mullinix fell unconscious, Hower declined.
“No, we don’t need them,” Hower told her on Sept. 21, a week after Dante died, according to Peiffer.
“He’s guilty,” Hower said.
‘He’ is Tyree Bowie, 42, who has maintained his innocence through four years of incarceration as the chief suspect in the death of two-year-old Dante.
After police arrested Bowie in late September 2018, he asked his longtime roommate, Peiffer, to don gloves, dig through the trash and bag the juice box and empty Teddy Grahams bag. She brought them to Farley Holt, Bowie’s lawyer, who offered them to the York County District Attorney’s office.
They also declined, Holt said.
So, Holt kept them on his credenza for four years. They appeared in court on Tuesday, submitted as evidence by the defense.
As it turned out, police threatened Peiffer with charges of tampering with evidence because she preserved the cookie bag and juice box, she said.
Peiffer testified under subpoena from prosecutors. During cross-examination by Holt, Peiffer told the jury she also measured the counter at the Rutter’s on Susquehanna Trail: 34 inches.
The store was featured in court testimony last week because Bowie took Dante to the store shortly after dropping off Dante’s mom at a hospital for a migraine.
“Who gave you the information about testimony from trial?” Prosecutor Tim Barker asked, because witnesses are not supposed to know about previous testimony in a case.
After a brief sidebar called after an objection by Holt, Peiffer clarified that Holt requested she go measure the counter on her way by the Rutter’s.
Peiffer said she initially was oblivious as to why officers knocked on her front door the night of Sept. 6, 2018, after Bowie had dropped an unresponsive Dante off with Leah Mullinix at a hospital.
When she arrived home that night, she said Bowie had gone to bed. Peiffer told Barker she did not let police in because they did not say who they were.
Peiffer also said she was surprised to find a puddle of juice, spilled from a juice box, on her kitchen floor. The next morning, Bowie’s car was gone, yet Bowie was still at the townhome, asking her for a ride to the police station. Soon, he was charged with homicide in Dante’s death.
Peiffer later called Bowie at the Dauphin County Prison on Sept. 10 to get answers, and prosecutors played the recorded phone call for the York County jury to hear this week.
In that call, Bowie talked about Dante and Leah, and had previously said he was going to call Children and Youth Services about how Dante was being treated. Peiffer also asked if he was dating Leah.
“Nooo,” Bowie replied in exaggerated fashion on the call. He then explained how Leah regularly told him that her son banged his head off walls, and then would share photos of bruises
“‘Oh, he banged his head off the wall,’” Bowie said Leah would tell him.
Bowie recalled that as he, Leah and Dante were driving together on Sept. 6, 2018,, Dante’s eyes rolled into the back of his head. Bowie was able to wake him up, but Dante still looked dumbfounded.
Then, an hour before Leah needed to report into the homeless shelter where they were living, she said she needed to go to the emergency room for a migraine, Bowie told Peiffer on the call.
“She’s afraid of the shelter, they would have [expletive] got him because he had those bruises on him,” Bowie said over the phone. “They’re trying to pin it on me because he was with me for a little bit of time.”
“They’re doing a thorough investigation, the detective told me,” Peiffer said, trying to reassure Bowie over the phone back in 2018.
Peiffer, still on the witness stand, scoffed in the courtroom as her remarks about the investigation were played on the speakers.
As the phone call continued to be played for jurors, Bowie, sitting on the right side of the courtroom, began reaching for tissues as he heard himself say he only friended Leah on Facebook because of Dante.
“On our way back to the hospital, I thought it was an animal cookie,” Bowie said. “I stuck my fingers down his throat, gave him mouth-to-mouth. I never experienced something like that…That’s something I don’t want to experience.”
Bowie told Peiffer the doctors had not told him much about Dante’s condition. But he held onto hope.
“He’s doing good, he’s doing good. That’s my man. That’s my man,” Bowie told Peiffer.
Dante died five days later at Hershey Medical Center."
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PUBLISHER'S NOTE: I am monitoring this case/issue/resurce. Keep your eye on the Charles Smith Blog for reports on developments. The Toronto Star, my previous employer for more than twenty incredible years, has put considerable effort into exposing the harm caused by Dr. Charles Smith and his protectors - and into pushing for reform of Ontario's forensic pediatric pathology system. The Star has a "topic" section which focuses on recent stories related to Dr. Charles Smith. It can be found at: http://www.thestar.com/
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FINAL WORD: (Applicable to all of our wrongful conviction cases): "Whenever there is a wrongful conviction, it exposes errors in our criminal legal system, and we hope that this case — and lessons from it — can prevent future injustices."
Lawyer Radha Natarajan:
Executive Director: New England Innocence Project;
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FINAL, FINAL WORD: "Since its inception, the Innocence Project has pushed the criminal legal system to confront and correct the laws and policies that cause and contribute to wrongful convictions. They never shied away from the hard cases — the ones involving eyewitness identifications, confessions, and bite marks. Instead, in the course of presenting scientific evidence of innocence, they've exposed the unreliability of evidence that was, for centuries, deemed untouchable." So true!
Christina Swarns: Executive Director: The Innocence Project;
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