24-04-2014, 01:27 PM
What I see in the TV footage is at least 2 uniformed DPD officers completely ignoring standard police evidence gathering policies and staging a video-bite for the cameras. Even the newest beat cop knows (and would have known back then too) you don't put your own prints all over the evidence. It makes far more sense that Bentley's WC testimony (that the wallet was recovered after the arrest) was a fabricated story intended to preserve the evidentiary value of the wallet, than all the stories of multiple wallets. I was glad to see JD Tippet's widow finally put the lie to the deception that the wallet was Tippet's. A fellow beat cop would not have handled his slain brother-in-arms' possessions with such casual disregard, nor would they have needed the wallet to identify Tippet.
So now we have Mr. Unknown Man both providing a description of Oswald as the shooter to DPD, broadcast prior to Howard Brennan's tale, and then Mr. Unknown Man hands DPD Oswald's wallet (complete with the fake ID tying Oswald to the assassination gun) at the scene of Tippet's murder. It's a fair bet that Mr. Man wasn't himself the shooter on either occasion, in that Mr. Man would have been spotted by Truly and Baker escaping the TSBD, or identified as the Tippet shooter by the hysterical eyewitnesses still at the scene when Croy arrives. But Mr. Unknown Man sure has given DPD a lot of its evidence.
So now we have Mr. Unknown Man both providing a description of Oswald as the shooter to DPD, broadcast prior to Howard Brennan's tale, and then Mr. Unknown Man hands DPD Oswald's wallet (complete with the fake ID tying Oswald to the assassination gun) at the scene of Tippet's murder. It's a fair bet that Mr. Man wasn't himself the shooter on either occasion, in that Mr. Man would have been spotted by Truly and Baker escaping the TSBD, or identified as the Tippet shooter by the hysterical eyewitnesses still at the scene when Croy arrives. But Mr. Unknown Man sure has given DPD a lot of its evidence.