Excellent question! You really get people to think.
Also, do you think Porter had help in dispensing of Jerry's body? Could he have done it alone?
Yea, sometimes my mind is way to over thinking on specific issues that I cannot easily make common sense out of.. So, I definitely appreciate anyone/everyone else's thoughts, opinions, or views on these aspects as well:websleuther:..
As far as Porter and his ability to maneuver Perdomo's large body, tho difficult yes.. But IMO not impossible in the least.. The reason I do believe he did it alone is that IMO there are only 2 people that Porter would ever consider having asked for help in this dire situation.. One, who I believe wouldn't offer too much assistance in maneuvering a grown man's large, dead body.. Of course I'm speaking of CN.. And two, the only other person IMO that Porter would have even considered involving who would be of considerable assistance, his father.. He was still in the state of CA when Porter disposed of Jerry's body.. Therefor I strongly suspect that Porter did in fact do it all himself.. Again I believe the task was difficult but not impossible..
How I see it is possible is that Porter shot and killed him inside the home.. IMO what would have been easiest would have been to go grab a large, heavy duty tarp return to the body in the home and simply roll Jerry's body onto the laid out heavy duty tarp.. That tarp would be the easiest transport of the body out of the house, slid over the snow to the truck he'd borrowed and THE MOST DIFFICULT PART OF THE TASK WOULD BE GETTING THE BODY INTO THE BED OF THE TRUCK.. Again, while difficult and cumbersome.. It's definitely possible.. I'd also think it likely that the body was wrapped in a tarp, plastic covering, or other type material such as sheets, blankets, etc..
Once inside the bed of the truck he has him wrapped up, but most importantly the thick, heavy duty tarp is protecting the surfaces underneath the body from getting blood, tissue, etc anywhere.. He's got the body in the bed of a truck, likely wrapped as well as covered with a tarp.. No one would ever even look twice he was free to drive about with zero suspicion.. He drives the truck to the location off of Dahlia Rd and due to the appearance of the truck when he returned it a few hours later(friend stated it was covered in mud).. I'd imagine he drive that truck as far into the wooded area as he could without getting it stuck.. So as to help remain undetected, as well as to not have to drag the body from the truck to the disposal spot any further than he absolutely had to..
So he let's the tail down of the truck, hops up into the bed of the truck and could quite forcefully just roll the wrapped body and heavy duty tarp both off the end of the truck bed plopping down onto the ground there in the woods.. The large heavy duty tarp is serving as a protectant to keep anything from being spilled or dropped onto the ground, as well as the tarp is again how Porter would transport the body to the actual disposal site within those woods by simply dragging it(again I think he drove a good ways into the wooded area so that there would not be much distance at all to drag the body on the top to its final resting place)..
So, in looking at it in that way I believe it's very likely he did it all alone.. I've seen huge amounts of weight having been drug via a heavy duty tarp before so I'm quite that Jerry's 200lb body would have been more than able to be transported this way.. But it's jmo, tho!
Smoothoperator, you are really thinking and have so many good points. *I don't believe it was self defense, but since there is only one person alive that was in the argument he could make up anything. If Jerry was shot with his own gun, it actually could support self defense ie...Jerry was threatening him with the gun, there was a struggle, and they were both fighting over the gun and "it" went off and hit jerry in the head.
Yep, I too knew the self defense would be claimed and I, too do not believe it for a millisecond.. I guess my biggest head scratcher is the fact that yes, what you just described above would be a perfect example of how self defense could be claimed in this case.. Jerry having pulled out his glock threatening Porter and his family's lives, a struggle ensued with the gun in Jerry's hand, in the struggle of Porter attempting to get the gun away the gun goes off shooting Jerry in the head.. IMO the epitome of self defense/accidental death.. What I am so extremely dumbfounded about is that is NOT Porter's acct.. Porter's acct straight from the words of the arrest affidavit states that Jerry verbally threatened him and his family with threatening STATEMENTS.. As I previously stated I am certain without a doubt had Porters acct involved Jerry threatening him with his gun that 100% would be stated in the arrest affidavit.. It is not.. The acct per Porter that resulted in his being charged with murder was that his words to Detective Stroud were that Jerry Perdomo made threatening statements about Porter and his family resulting in Jerry Perdomo being dead and his body and "the" gun disposed of in an undisclosed location..
That is what is baffling to me!! I get the self defense claim.. I think we all saw it coming a mile away before even the arrest or body recovered.. That was expected.. And I believe most expected that Perdomo's possessing a Glock handgun that night would be the perfect form of deadly threat made upon Porter for him to claim the self defense.. As we now know he did indeed claim self defense but his claim doesn't include Perdomo ever even mentioning a weapon, but rather that the deadly threats were via STATEMENTS..:crazy:
It is downright crazy and it's why I really genuinely was asking is Porter that ignorant?? Because I have no rational explanation for why In "coming clean" with LE "confessing" the events of that night that he would believe that his claiming that verbally spoken threatening statements made by Perdomo justifies his blowing Perdomo's head off?!?!
So while we still don't know where Perdomo's gun is.??.. Or what gun was actually used in the murder??.. I'm still left most baffled at the actual self defense claim that is being used in the homicide.. Verbal threatening statements IMO do not ever justify blowing a man's head off committing homicide.. I don't believe that in Maine or any other state in the continental U.S. would the claim that Daniel Porter has given(ie. Perdomo made verbal threatening statements about him and family) constitutes the brutal homicide that followed as a "supposed" result of those statements..
:waitasec: left scratching my head still...
And of course as is always these are nothing more than jmo, tho
Oh, I didn't think of that! :doh: