Who: Margaret Crawford, prostitute; girlfriend of Hunt Second Statement: Sept. 11, 1984 What she said: On Sept. 11, after the 15-year-old runaway from Eden was picked up on secure custody orders for larceny of an automobile and failure to appear in court, she told a different story. She said Hunt and Mitchell had been with her that morning in the Motel 6 on Patterson Avenue, and that they had left about 6 a.m. She said Hunt returned about 9:30, upset and with mud on his pants. She said two weeks after this, while watching a Crimestoppers report about the Sykes case, she mentioned that she wished she knew who had done the crime so she could collect the reward money, and that Hunt told her Mitchell had done it and had sex with her. At Hunt's first trial the next year, Crawford recanted that story. The fact that her earlier statements were introduced as evidence anyway resulted in Hunt winning a new trial after he had been convicted of murder. |
