What happened after the shooting on Lantern Point Drive? Witnesses testified Charles Mamou’s driver left without him. He then jumped in their blue Lexus with Mary Carmouche in the backseat and fled the scene. Mamou has always maintained he followed his driver, Samuel Johnson, back to an apartment complex where he was staying and where … Continue reading What DA And HPD Knew, But Mamou And Jury Didn’t
After thirty minutes and forty-one seconds of listening to a ‘confession’ that Terrence Dodson said he heard from his cousin, Charles Mamou, investigators knew they had a problem. The times didn’t fit. If they could get past the bizarre confession itself – how were they going to work with the timeline… It appears they attempted … Continue reading HPD Knew Key Witness In Mamou Capital Murder Case Was Lying – Yet He Became Foundation Of Case
Houston’s Police Chief, Art Acevedo, recently received cheers from protestors, “We will march as a department with everybody in this community. I will march until I can’t stand no more.” Charles Mamou has lived on Death Row for over twenty years for a case built by the Houston Police Department and prosecuted by Harris County, … Continue reading The Window Of Opportunity Is Open For Harris County & HPD – Charles Mamou Is Out Of Appeals
”The rape kit is irrelevant.” That’s what a homicide detective in Houston told me last week. Charles Mamou has spent two decades on death row for the murder of Mary Carmouche – a crime he has always denied committing. What the case lacks in physical evidence, it makes up for in questions. In 1999 the … Continue reading In Mamou Death Sentence, HPD Says, “The Rape Kit Is Irrelevant”
Following is testimony taken from trial transcripts dated October 13, 1999, during the Punishment Phase of the case against Charles Mamou, Volume 22, beginning on Page 67. The disturbing case – which includes information the District Attorney had that was never shared with Mamou, including a rape kit and untested evidence, the prosecution not bringing … Continue reading Anatomy Of A Circa 1999 Houston Death Sentence
My grandmother died a day after my quick conviction.“She saw you on TV after you were sentenced to death and she died. You killed her by breaking her heart.” I got hate mail from my own flesh and blood after my conviction. – Charles Mamou Charles Mamou’s family was divided, according to Mamou, half quickly … Continue reading No Winners Here
Photograph of Charles Mamou, courtesy of ©manfredbaumann.com A fax cover sheet addressed to Assistant District Attorney Lyn McClellan and dated September 24, 1999, along with an HPD officer’s handwritten caller ID records were seen for the first time by Charles Mamou in 2020, over twenty years after the Houston Police Department and District Attorney’s office … Continue reading Painted Guilty – Charles Mamou
“The primary duty of a lawyer engaged in public prosecution is not to convict, but to see that justice is done. The suppression of facts or the secreting of witnesses capable of establishing the innocence of the accused is highly reprehensible.” – Canons of Professional Ethics of the American Bar Association Harris County sent Charles … Continue reading Did Harris County Prosecutor Do What He Was Called To Do? The Story Of Charles Mamou
“Please keep fighting for my son.” That was a text received from Charles Mamou’s mother. Her son was sentenced to death over twenty years ago in Houston, while the Harris County District Attorney’s Office was under the rule of Johnny Holmes, a man known for and proud of pursuing the death penalty. The amount of … Continue reading “If They Want To Kill An Innocent Man, Take Me,” – Charles Mamou, Sr.
April 17, 2019, ‘Items were signed for by Mary K. Childs-Henry – Item 001 Sealed envelope said to contain biological evidence.’ Then again, June 24, 2019, ‘Items were signed for by Mary K. Childs-Henry – Item 004 Sealed envelope said to contain biological evidence.’ The Mamou trial is riddled with information not shared with Charles … Continue reading Will Harris County of Today Execute Charles Mamou Based On 1999 Decision Made Without All The Information?
