A miscarriage of justice will be complete on Halloween
Column by William Weathers
If anyone ever compiles a list of great miscarriages of justice, surely the case of Mel Ignatow will be near the top.
Now, the miscarriage is being compounded by the freeing of an apparently remorseless sexual sadist turned murderer.
Even though there's supposed to be some good in everybody, if anyone ever compiles another type of list - a list of the most nearly worthless humans ever to breathe air - Ignatow will make the cut.
If the name sounds familiar, it's because Melvin Ignatow is the killer whom a Kenton County jury acquitted six years ago for the murder of Brenda Schaefer.
The murder was committed in Louisville, but since polls there showed virtually everybody in Jefferson County knew what somehow eluded the jury - namely, that Ignatow was a murderer - the trial was moved to Kenton County.
It's never been really clear why the jury here found Ignatow not guilty. Jurors complained they weren't presented enough evidence. But the judge was so upset when they voted for acquittal that - in a move almost unheard of in Kentucky circuit courts - he let it be known that he would have convicted if it had been a bench trial, and he wrote a letter of apology to the Schaefer family.
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