17-04-2019, 07:24 PM
David Andrews Wrote:Maybe the same handgun did go to Cielo Drive twice, and was thrown away by its true owner after his later visit.
If no one in the house heard noise from Steve Parent backing his car into the curb and fence, also it's said that no one there was warned by the sound of several small-caliber gun shots before the home invasion. Yet neighbors in the canyon heard shots later in the night. Canyon acoustics, or some other explanation?
P. S. - I enjoyed your writings on the TSBD some time ago, in The Third Decade (Fourth?)
I think your comment that the handgun went to Cielo Drive twice is very interesting. I had assumed in the article I wrote that the three shots heard by Bullington came from a different gun.
When found later by a teenage boy on a hillside, the nine shot revolver had seven empty chambers. We know that Frykowski had two bullet holes, Sebring had one. Perhaps Tex shot Parent once and assumed he was dead. That leaves three shots for the coup de grace to Parent.
As you say, if Tex shot four bullets into Parent, it would be a stretch to assume that the shots did not alarm the people in the house and they come running out. But maybe one shot would not necessarily bring them out of the house.
Thanks for your interest in my TSBD articles. If anyone on the forum is interested, you can watch an interview of me with James Fetzer and Larry Rivera.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVIUu6gJyec
Also there is a schoolbook depository article I wrote for James Fetzer at
https://jamesfetzer.org/2016/07/on-the-d...rade-mart/