

Sal has actually been innocent all along.As this post and the comments point out, there are a lot of inconsistencies in Sal's memory of the events.

In chapter 5, you learn that Sal's mother was killed by (and his face is blown off by) a presumed cult member wearing a dog mask shooting Sal. This Tropers best guess is that Mom was either in a coma for the rest of the five years, or had battled with medical problems from the incident until finally succumbing to the injuries half a decade later, though considering the nature of the game, the actual cause of death so much time later could be significantly darker. But Sal and his father, when discussing her, talk as if the death is still relatively fresh. That puts at least a five year distance between that incident and the move. Sal's Mom didn't die from the dog that took Sal's face.at the very least not right away.Sal is fifteen by the time he and his father move out of Jersey, but based on his size and the way he talks during the dream sequence where Sal's mother presumably was attacked by the dog that Sal wanted to go see, the kid couldn't have been any older than eight, maybe nine. It is possible that the throat wounds were merely not visible due to the angle, and it is unclear what Larry, assuming he was the killer, would have gained from providing false details like this, but it casts strong doubt that he is telling the truth. In the coroner's van, though, we see a dead woman with her skull broken open. Larry claimed that Charley barged in and slit Mrs.Sanderson's throat.

Never mind the fact that he hadn't told his mother "yet." Second, the description of the murder he claimed to have witness does not fit with the body seen in the back of the coroner van. More importantly, he not only somehow obtained a police scanner but then has no qualms about using it to mislead police and direct Sal to tamper with police evidence. His mom says she sometimes "worries" about him. He isn't exactly depicted as a model youth. First of all, there's plenty of evidence that he's a troublemaker. While jumping to conclusions in any murder mystery is risky business, it's hard not to look at Larry and be suspicious.
#Sally face real face exection trial
Surprise surprise, years later it turns out he didn't do it, and now Sal has been arrested and is going to stand trial for murder. So, he has Sal go do several dubious things to obtain the "evidence" that would prove this to the police, and consequentially, Charley is arrested. Larry may have been involved in the murder, and used Sal to mislead the authoritiesIn the second half of episode one, Larry, the metalhead son of the maintenance woman, convinces Sal that Charley, their brony neighbor, was the one behind the recent murder of Mrs.Sanderson.
