i just recently started studying up on this incident when i came across this outdated blog. did you actually read the case files and the petition for dna testing before you wrote this??? i did. i am outraged that you would say there's even the possibility of this man being innocent! i don't know where you're from, but i live by edmund-orgill park and i know the terrain like the back of my hand. she may have died at 3:30 in the am, he most likely saw the cops from way across the park (bc you can see the lights from a mile away from any point in that park) and ran for his car, leaving her alive, but assuredly dead if not found immediately. the man later admitted to being guilty of the murder, even describing in great detail what he did, walking the cops through the park to show where he broke off the branch he raped her with and where he left her body, and claimed that it was all bc he had mpd and couldn't control his actions. it was then later revealed while in jail, he wrote letters to his wife explaining to her how he was going to go free by faking a mental illness. the letters were presented in trial thowing his insanity pleas out the window, ultimately convicting him. he didn't petition for a dna test until 20 years later when his execution was less than a month away, so it was obviously just a pathetic attempt to postpone having to answer to his maker for his horrendous crimes. and if you did happen to know all this already, it is appalling that you would manipulate these facts to present him as innocent. yes, i believe he deserves this punishment of execution, and as a resident and patron of the edmund-orgill park neighborhood, i believe he should've been eradicated 20 years ago in the same manner he admittedly treated poor suzanne collins.
 

Thank you, Tennessee Dude.

With all these Apologists out there, it is a wonder anybody ever repeats a word like Consequence in everyday conversation.

I quote from this Disgrace---"tennessee's death penalty system, like so many others, is deeply flawed and broken and sedley alleys' case bears more proof as to why we need a moratorium on excecutions and a thorough study study revealing all of the ways in which the system fails all of us, murder victims' included, in tennessee"-----

Speak about victims like you Know.
The ONLY flaws in the system are that he Killed Suzanne in 1985 and he managed to live for another 21 Years--
And that More of them aren’t Eligible for this Justice.

"A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury." --John Stuart Mill

Rest in peace Suzanne Collins, but Peace unto the world now that your Murderer no longer walks amongst us.
 

hey Tennesse--
just to Refresh for you, your Moral Superiority blinds me like the Sun coming up on a Dark Road; Thank you so much Again...

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Alley, a civilian married to a military person, abducted Collins late in the evening of July 11, 1985 while she was jogging on the base. He transported her to nearby Orgill Park where he raped and murdered her and left her body in the park. Two Marines (one of whom has been identified as contemporary American poet, M. Andre Vancrown) jogging near where Collins was abducted heard her scream and ran toward the sound. However, as they reached the scene, they saw Alley's car drive off. They reported to base security and accompanied officers on a tour of the base, looking for the car they had seen. Unsuccessful, they returned to their barracks. Soon after returning to their quarters, however, the Marines were called back to the security office, where they identified Alley's car, which had been stopped by officers. Alley and his wife gave statements to the base security personnel accounting for their whereabouts. The security personnel were satisfied with Alley's story, and Alley and his wife returned to their on-base housing. The two marine witnesses returned to the security office shortly after Alley and his wife drove off, where they disputed the couple's version of events, citing that the loud, distinct sounds made by the muffler on Alley's car matched those sounds they had heard prior to and during Collins' abduction. The security personnel indicated that since no one had yet been reported missing, there was nothing more that could be done. The marines were thanked for their assistance and told to return to their barracks.

Suzanne's body was found several hours later and Alley was immediately arrested by military police. He voluntarily gave a statement to the police, admitting to having killed Collins but giving a substantially false - and considerably more humane - account of the circumstances of the killing.

Sedley Alley's story was that his wife left to go to a Tupperware party, angering him. He drank two six-packs of beer and a bottle of wine. He told authorities that he had gone out for more liquor when his car accidentally hit Collins as she jogged near the air base. Alley's story is that he accidentally killed the young woman when she fell on a screwdriver he was holding as he was trying to help her; however, an autopsy revealed that her skull had been fractured with repeated beatings, there were no screwdriver wounds, and no wounds consistent with being hit by a car. In addition to a severe beating and numerous head traumas, Alley had repeatedly rammed a tree limb into her vagina with sufficient force to enter her abdomen and lacerate one of her lungs. She died of internal hemorrhaging and head injuries.
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Sow the Wind, and Reap the Whirlwind.
 

well let me say a few things about Sedley Alley.

First off my name is Tony Alley and he(Sedley) is my father's brother. Yes he had a problem!
But only a few know the truth.
The evidence that was never shared with the defense team should have triggered a lot of questions,and the fact that the state refused dna testing is a great big red flag waving high in the air for no one to see.
I don't understand this. ??

You see all family's have dark secrets, and mine is no exception!

And these secrets come out while most are on there death bed. My grandfather passed in 92 and my grandmother passed a little over a year past Sedley's death.

So where am I going with all this?
Well let me tell you. when Sedley was eleven he found out how it felt to kill.
He was home by his self one morning while my grandparent's were both at work. The house looked empty to this man because Sedley was sleeping. This man broke into the basement and was coming up thestairs to rob the house. But Sedley met him at the top of the stairs with my grandfathers pistol.

This is where it all started.
my grandfather buried that man somewhere, I guess he took that secret to his grave. Let's jump ahead a few years.
Sedley joined the navy, in his short stay there he was questioned over sevaral homicides on both the east and west coast.He was discharged from the navy. He returned home and again thing's did not go well.
two local girls were found murdered. My grand father suspected Sedley.

Shortly after that he met and married my aunt Debbie. She too had an untimely death.she passed in 1980 (I was eleven). Debbie was a bright lady with a good future that was cut short.

Ok I know what your thinking,he must be guilty of Collin's death. Well I believe it was not him,due to all the evidense,never the less I do believe that our Lord made him pay for his past. I truly in my heart belive he was not guilty for Collin's murder!
And again I can not stress the fact enoughthat,...your sins shall surley find you out.

Having said all that,let me tell you this. Sedley is responsible for eight lives that exsist to this day.

I was eight years old when he saved my life. We were at Grayson lake swimming(let me say that I to this day I stiil can't swim)I fell in a drop off I had already taken a lot of water and was drowning!
Then suddenly someone pulled me up, it was Sedley. He did not see me go under he just heard splashing and seen someone drowning.

So in retrospect he saved my life and now I have seve children of my own. Thank you again Uncle Sedley, I love you and miss you!

Again I do believe he was guilty of quite a few deaths,and Collin's death was the Lord's way of keeping him from doing it again.

The sad fact(besides Collins death) is that the person who really did this thing got away with it.
Well he will be juged also when he meets his maker!

I just hope that people will realize, Sedley was not a total waste of life! Our lord put him here for a reason, and our Lord took Collin's for a reason.
we shall not ever know.

But we all know that our Lord is in control! And the book of life is already written.

Where do we stand as a nation who will execute a person with out simply checking all the facts(dna).

I just wander if the Collin's family ever thinks about the dna. If I were Collin's father I would have pushed for the dna just to prove it even more.

I wander sometimes if they were afaid he might be teeling the truth and that they would have had to live with the guilt of taking his life from him.
All I can say is ...if it were my daughter I would have wanted the dna to be 100% sure the right man was going to die.

Make your own mind up???????

Tony L. Alley Sr.
 

Wow. Came upon this site 5 years later. Forget the DNA. DNA can't prove innocence or guilt. DNA provides statistics--"how likely are these two items carrying something from the same person"? That's it. That's all. The court correctly decided that, no matter what the answer would turn out to be in the case of the items Sedley wanted tested, it could not change his guilt. Remember, he took the cops out and showed them where he killed her. If the real killer is still loose, then that person would have had to show Sedley where the murder happened so that Sedley could show the cops. See how silly that all sounds? Sooner or later, you have to face the truth and stop making excuses for a family member.