2:46
DIRECT EXAM OF RK BY JB
Second statement he made on 12/08.
After he made the discovery, he was asked to wait in his truck and he was asked to write out a statement and this is the statement in which he said the skull dropped out of the bag.
OBJECTION - leading - SUSTAINED
Did LE ask him to go somewhere private? He went to their car. He doesn't remember if that statement was recorded. He was shown it and agreed they advised him it was going to be recorded. At that time he told them what he saw and what he did. He wanted to tell them what happened.
Do you recall telling them on 2 occasions that you did not touch anything? Yes, sir. He told them that he manipulated the skull with his meter stick. He told them he stuck the meter stick in the eye socket and lifted it. He knows that he said that. He reviewed his statement. He agreed there is no statement of that in the statement he read. It did say the skull dropped out of the bag.
Toward the end of the statement he was asked if there was anything else he wanted to tell them. He did not recall this so JB showed him the statement and he agreed.
He mentioned calling Crime Line. It is not in your statement is it?
OBJECTION - asked and answered yesterday - SUSTAINED
Who did you tell that you had called Crime Line?
OBJECTION - asked and answered - OVERRULED
He told this to the officer who was first on the scene. That officer told him not to mention it - but not to keep his mouth shut.
Regarding his statement given to LE when his attorney was present -
OBJECTION - I'm impeaching - HHJBP - Impeaching who?
SIDEBAR #8 (2:54-2:59)
The purpose was to clarify your stement?
OBJECTION - SUSTAINED
Did you testify that the first time your story was changed? YEs, sir.
OBJECTION - OVERRULED
That was the fist time, but I had changed it long before that.
You could not have discovered a skull in August and made it in the bag in Deember?
OBJECTOIN - SUSTAINED
Now the skull was in the bag as opposed to dropping out of the bag.
The reason you changed your story was that LE had found out about your initial calls.
OBJECTION - SUSTAINED
Why did you chage your storyu? After he calmed down, he re-ran the events in his mind and realized he made a mistake.
He characterized his demeaner as over-whelmed.
OBJECTION - asked and answered - SUSTAINED
On both of your statements on 12/11, you agreed you never made the statement about sticking his meter stick in the eye socket? If he omited it, it was because he was overwhelmed.
OBJECTION - SUSTAINED
How many statements did you make before saying you stuck the meter stick into the eye socket?
OBJECTION - SUSTAINED
Did you make 7 statements before saying you had stuck the meter stick in the eye socket?
OBJECTION - asked and answered - SUSTAINED
Recess to 3:25