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This is the Story of the Frame-up of Earl Bramblett for the Murders of the Hodges family in nineteen ninety-four in Vinton, Virginia

By: D C Graham

This is the story of the murder of Earl Bramblett; a man the police framed for multiple murders in the City of Vinton, Virginia August twenty nine, 1994.
The murders were the Hodges family, Blaine Hodges, wife Teresa Hodges, 2 daughters , Winter age eleven and Anna aged three. The youngsters had every been shot in the pinnacle twice, the father shot once in the head and Teresa had been strangled and set on fire. She was downstairs, the remainder upstairs in bed. Windows were closed and the fire did little harm to the house. Teresa was burned badly, however it had been determined she had been strangled. She was sporting a combine of turquoise panties, her white shorts were found across the room. The rest of her clothing underneath her charred body on the couch.
The Vinton police and Violent Crime Unit of the Virginia State Police investigated; Barry Keesee was the Senior Investigator on the case. Keesee testified he thought it was a murder/suicide for over ten hours, but he traveled to Earl Bramblett's place of employment that morning. Keesee claimed he solely knew Bramblett when he came to the Vinton Police Station later that day. That was a lie. Just one of many that Keesee would tell to witnesses, relatives and on the stand underneath oath. Keesee claimed he knew it wasn't murder/suicide once the Medical Examiner had checked out the bodies. The morning visit to Bramblett's employer wasn't mentioned in Bramblett's trial and Keesee was never questioned why he was there. It had been discovered after I got the FBI files through The Freedom Of Information Act.
There was a handgun found within the upstairs bedroom on the floor beside Blaine Hodges bed that was missing a barrel. The forensic firearms examiner ruled it could not have been the murder weapon, not as a result of of the missing barrel, however the manufacturer's specifications dominated it out. The inner barrel configurations didn't match the bullets found in the victims. 2 years later, this same firearms professional wrote Keesee a letter saying this gun might be the murder weapon, as a result of he found one like it that matched the bullets in the victims. Why he would remember this case was never explained and was never asked regarding this at trial. Just one thing Bramblett's lawyers let slide. William Conrad, the firearms "expert", later wrote he lied. Earl Bramblett was arrested two years later in South Carolina where he had been living since leaving Roanoke. He was working and had bought a house and bought a 3 legged dog. The police watched him for 2 days before his arrest and went in with their guns drawn. Bramblett's brush with the law was twenty years back for drunk driving and a dangerous check. There was no violence anywhere in Earl Bramblett's background.
Decide Roy Willett, an irascible twenty-5 year veteran of the bench, claimed there wasn't any reason to alter venue. The trial started November of nineteen ninety-seven. Bramblett had been within the County of Roanoke Jail for a year as a result of his attorneys, appointed by Willett, asked for delay when delay, ostensibly to collect evidence for his defense. The attorneys asked for a non-public Investigator to appear into Bramblett's allegations of a conspiracy by the police and therefore the adult victims. The "investigator" later wrote saying none of the witnesses would talk with him. That's as so much as his investigation went.
The trial was speculated to be the longest within the history of Roanoke County, however it had been shortened by the dearth of preparation and inexperience of the defense attorneys. The year they'd to prepare was either wasted, or they were too frightened by the jury and choose to gift a case. It was a 1-sided affair, to say the least. It had been a rollover by the defense attorneys since they believed Bramblett guilty also. Bramblett was under represented and Willett sat and listened while every rule of jurisprudence was violated. The trial was a readily apparent theme to railroad an innocent man to Virginia's quick track death row. Bramblett was executed April 9, 2003 at Greenville, VA at 9:09 PM. How several capital murder cases do you recognize of that are "finalized" in five years?
This wasn't many folks gathering evidence and returning to a common conclusion, this was a conspiracy to kill Earl Bramblett for crimes they believed he committed. This was a conspiracy by the Commonwealth Attorney of Roanoke County Skip Burkart, his assistant Randy Leach, the Virginia State Police Investigator Barry Keesee asking/coercing the state firearm forensic skilled Bill Conrad, inmate Tracy Turner, and a witness, Mrs. Dorothy McGee to commit perjury. These people were aided and abetted by Mac Doubles and Terry Grimes, Bramblett's defense attorneys, and Can Lindsey, Bramblett's habeas attorney. The facts on this web site are indisputable as a result of they are from the people that framed Earl Bramblett and murdered him. The pages with numbers on the left are actual court transcripts from the trial and others are either from the investigation or the FBI FOIA. They can not be denied as facts.
These people thought that may be the top of their fraudulent scheme to kill Earl Bramblett. This was simply the beginning since they have killed an innocent man.
We tend to may never apprehend who killed the Hodges. These folks took it upon themselves to shortcut the legal system by lying, creating up evidence, perjury and alternative nefarious means.
These individuals could have committed the right murder. There have been several thousands of hits on this web site in the last 10 years but nobody with influence or power has chosen to appear into this. I still have hope.

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Go to allamosa.com and get the full story. The book written about the crime can be found at smokeandmurders.com

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