For the most part he does this by omitting critical testimony that proves the lie such as Stearns' patently absurd account of her sailing method re "leisure sailing," or her improbable account of the Iola's supposed approach to Palmyra. Eager to win every point, when necessary he shaves the truth. Bugliosi professing his belief in Stearns innocence is duped by his client. It includes substantial portions of the original trial testimony that were excluded in ATSWT. FINAL ARGUMENT exposes lie after compounded lie, set forth as truth in Bugliosi's version of the "facts" surrounding the murder of the Grahams on Palmyra the August of 1974. Her manipulative skills are unusually sharp as can be observed while she was at work on Palmyra Island the summer of 1974, and in her interplay with counsel and court during her murder trial. However, Stearns murder plot was masterful. Her moronic pronouncements (all of which went unnoticed) regarding the birth of the Iola (for the most part wisely left out of Bugliosi's account of the trial) are absurd to the point of zaniness. To an experienced sailor, Stearn's account of her navigational skill is grossly overstated to the point where reading Bugliosi's book "And The Sea Will Tell" becomes an exercise that tests one's patience. Unfortunately, because of Enoki's refusal to allow Bugliosi's tidal data into the trial, the jury was deprived of this information. Bugliosi's careful analysis of the tides revealed Stearns was lying about her activities purportedly occurring on the 30th and 31st of August 1974. Time and again she is exposed as a liar and a perjurer, yet the jury forgives lie after lie all the while ignoring the honest and forthright testimony of the Pollocks (The LEONARDS in ATSWT.) and Mac's messenger, Curtis Shoemaker. (Most egregious were her August 5th log remarks about "drooling and dreaming" anticipating possession of the SEA WIND on execution of the Grahams.) Stearns claims to have studied mathematics, yet in her supposed log she cannot engage in simple addition. ![]() Stearns, herself, taunts her pursuers with photographs and spurious log notes. All of which were ignored by the prosecutor, judge, jury and reading public. In his zeal to prove Stearns' innocence, inadvertently, Bugliosi set forth clue after clue proving the guilt of Stearns and her crime partner, Buck Walker. ATSWT reviewed the supposed facts surrounding the murder of the Grahams on Palmyra, and followed STEPHANIE STEARNS (aka JENNIFER JENKINS) upon her arrest and trial for her role in the planning and participation in those murders. ![]() "FINAL ARGUMENT" was written in response to VINCENT BUGLIOSI'S best seller "AND THE SEA WILL TELL" (ATSWT) which recounts the brutal murder and torture of MAC and MUFF GRAHAM on PALMYRA ISLA8ND August 29, 1974.
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