29-04-2018, 08:55 PM
Trenchant work, boiling 50+ years of accumulated sap down to genuine syrup in brisk fashion, almost all of the phony eyewitnesses evaporating into thin air, whence they were summoned.
All save one. I'm curious as to why uncorroborated part A (WR p.166) of Benavides' tale of two arrivals is retained, fabricated to replace Bowley as the man who made the call on Tippit's radio, at the same time as a matter of convenience converting him into one of many pseudo-eyewitnesses. This role augmentation must have happened after he gave his lost statement to DPD, the contents of which likely conformed to part B, the part that actually happened. B starts with his arrival at the murder scene as observed by Guinyard (WC VII p.698), in his truck, and has no eyewitness implication. Based on B it makes sense that Benavides did not attend a lineup.
Putting that aside, the article is a pleasure to read.
All save one. I'm curious as to why uncorroborated part A (WR p.166) of Benavides' tale of two arrivals is retained, fabricated to replace Bowley as the man who made the call on Tippit's radio, at the same time as a matter of convenience converting him into one of many pseudo-eyewitnesses. This role augmentation must have happened after he gave his lost statement to DPD, the contents of which likely conformed to part B, the part that actually happened. B starts with his arrival at the murder scene as observed by Guinyard (WC VII p.698), in his truck, and has no eyewitness implication. Based on B it makes sense that Benavides did not attend a lineup.
Putting that aside, the article is a pleasure to read.