I'll play. Not ready to put my cards on the table as a fully formed scenario but I'm hoping that above all, no matter how any of us are leaning, this more than anything else is a search for the truth.I'll take all the help I can get.....
Good intro - let's see what you've got.
Walker007 and Japple have made some observations that mesh with some of my thinking, this is where I'm running with it.
No set up, no suicide...Joe knew at least one of the 3. Once Joe saw him, Joe had to die.
So far, we have no evidence to indicate that anyone else was actually there with the lieutenant when he was shot but I guess I can pretend that we do.
1.One of the male whites was a cop
2.Either the male white or the male black was a drug connection
3.There are cops in the area playing along with people moving drugs
Okay. Got it.
Where did they park?
The guy on the news from Precision Chrome said he onlly saw one car there parked at the gate. Are you suggesting they all rode in with the LT?
4. All 3 if discovered would have enough to lose to warrant murdering Lt.JG
I guess that's a
no on whether or not you think they arrived in the same car.
5.Even if escape was possible,the dirty cop would have been ID'ed by Lt.JG
Again, I would like to know where the "dirty cop's" car was parked, what his GPS would show about his whereabouts (how long he was there - etc) and what his (or her) radio and cell phone traffic might have been prior to the encounter.
6.Joe got out flanked somehow and was forced to drop his gun= No Sign of struggle
This is incredibly difficult to imagine for a military veteran and a very well seasoned training officer to do. . . but okay. Where/ what is the evidence of this struggle? What happened to the evidence that would have indicated that others were there?
7.A cop would know how to kill a cop with his own gun leaving little to no evidence
Right now I would settle for ANY evidence at all. We don't even have one single footprint in the dirt or mud that could possibly be attributed to any one of the trio of suspects.
We only have the word of the LT himself to give us any reason to believe that they were there. . . and if it was a "dirty cop" involved, apparently the LT did not know or recognize him or her. Else, he could have been much more descriptive in his radio description. And the LT would have been much more reluctant to chase them into the wooded swamp without backup too - if he knew he was chasing a "dirty cop."
8.The scanner thread radio times can fit
Perhaps. But only if we attribute super human skills to all three of the suspects and if we give the LT a pass on violating so much of his own training and protocol.
9.Neither Lt.JG or the 3 subjects expected to see each other that morning (again No SetUp)
I can appreciate your scenario and your efforts to make it fit the timeline of the radio traffic. It just leaves too many questions un-answered and it makes too many assumptions for me. At least at this point, that is.
If there is any possibility that a "dirty cop" was involved in this, the Feds will be all over it. I would think that the Lt's wife would be trying to make that case as well. But she isn't.