"We both know who is responsible"

[John Mooney]

"It would have been an instant lawsuit."

That was a strong possibility.

But would they have wanted that can of pandorean worms opened?

Deputy Sheriff Buddy Walthers had an interesting exchange with Liebeler about going to the Paine residence for the first time:

Mr. WALTHERS: ... when we went to the door, what turned out to be Mrs. Paine just as soon as we stepped on the porch, she said, "Come on in, we've been expecting you", and we didn't have any trouble at all--we just went right on in and started asking her--at that time it didn't appear that her or Mrs. Oswald, or Marina, who came up carrying one of the babies in the living room--it didn't appear that they knew that Oswald had been arrested at all--the way they talked.

Mr. LIEBELER: How do you account for the fact that Mrs. Paine said, "Come on in, we've been expecting you?"

Mr. WALTHERS: I don't know--to this day, I don't know.

Mr. LIEBELER: Are you sure that's what she said?

Mr. WALTHERS: I know that's what she said.

Mr. LIEBELER: Mrs. Paine said that?

Mr. WALTHERS: Yes, sir; she said, "Come on in, we have been expecting you."


Buddy Walthers had obviously pondered this long and hard "to this day, I don't know"... "I know that's what she said".