Thank you! I’ve never seen this one before..interesting.
Could you see the whole article? I subscribe to Newspapers.com for genealogy research, but am trying to find a way to post copies of old news articles here at WS for the old cases.
Thank you! I’ve never seen this one before..interesting.
Could you see the whole article? I subscribe to Newspapers.com for genealogy research, but am trying to find a way to post copies of old news articles here at WS for the old cases.
The bottom was cut off a bit, but otherwise it was fine.
Is there anyway you could send me all the information you have gathered so I have a good starting point?
Speaking of details...It seems awfully curious that the interior of the vehicle could be described considering you'd need to be pretty close to view the color so the vague descriptors of the men is odd. I wonder if the witness who saw them is still alive or if maybe there is more in the files that was withheld at the time.
It really baffles me as to the lack of any evidence? Like, you would think there would be something.
(Original post by HamSandwich respectfully shortened by me.) That is odd, that the witness could describe the interior of the car but could not describe the men in the car. Either the encounter was quite brief and they couldn't have known the significance of what they were seeing at the time or they may have actually known more than they were letting on.
It was August. If someone saw the car parked or pulled up to the curb with the windows down, it would be fairly easy to tell the color of the interior provided thete was some light (from a streetlight, for instance).What I wonder about is the reported finding that Dennis died 30-45 minutes after being picked up. According to a previous post, he was found 12 kilometers (or about 7 miles) away from where he was picked up. It doesn't take 30-45 minutes to drive 7 miles. Did it take him half an hour to die after he'd been shot? Or did the men take him somewhere off the highway before killing him?Yes, stating the color of the car's interior is throwing me off. How could they possibly know that?
Assuming they dumped his body first and later his belongings, can someone make a map showing both these locations plus where he was picked up?
It could be. I don't know how developed the areas in question were back in 1974. If two people passing through town had killed Dennis, it seems like taking him to a more remote area outside of town would have been the easier move.Here’s a simple map, the heart is the KFC on Broadway, the green flag is where DC’s body was found and the pin is where is belongings were found.
To me it seems like it was deliberately scoped out, I think these men were of-area.
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bbm - If that was the case, and they wanted to protect the two men, why would they then even give the car description to LE? They could just have said they saw nothing.
I think either the encounter was really very fleeting and maybe the men were both sitting in the front of the car and the interior was only spotted when Dennis opened the rear door, or LE is holding back details of the men, which would baffle me since so much time has passed. I think the latter, because if you can determine the gender and approximate age of a person you would likely also be able to tell their hair color or skin color.
I wasn't so much thinking that the witness lied to protect the two men, more along the lines of this person may have made up the story about the car; possibly to deflect suspicion from themselves if they were involved. That may explain why no leads about the men in the car ever panned out. I wonder if this person was the only one who claimed to have seen the car. If others did too that may make it less likely to be just a story. Another thing I'm wondering about is the ballistic analysis of the bullets that killed Dennis; We know he was shot multiple times, but were the bullets all the same caliber/fired from the same gun? If not it's more likely there was more than one shooter, but if they were it would sound like one perpetrator.