He's done, as in put a fork in it. At least as a plaintiff, that is.
Consider the strangeness of this turtle hunter finding Chandra's skull buried under leaves. Never identified. Found Chandra two days after Condit's staff started being questioned by a grand jury. Condit had already taken the Fifth after delaying the grand jury as long as he could.
The turtle hunter was referred to as both a man and a boy at different times. There was some speculation that he wasn't identified bacause he was a juvenile and, after all, hunting turtles.
And the police even were quoted anonymously as saying that hunting turtles in a national park is illegal, but hey, how do you think turtles get in pet shops? or something to that effect.
So he says that he's walking down the road, Broad Branch Road, and his dog bounds across the road and runs up the hill. He follows.
If anyone went to that scene, they would find that he had been walking along the side of a cliff, barely room to hug the cliff while the occasional car comes around curves at 60 miles per hour. When I walked it, a deer was lying there on the side of the road. You come around those curves at 60 miler per hour, anything in the road is going to get wasted.
The dog bounds across the road and up the hill, he says. The only problem is a four foot deep creek bed about twelve feet wide with a trickle of water. You don't bound across that. You can slide and scamper and climb, but you don't bound.
Then when you start climbing, you keep climbing. Up a sheer cliff on the other side. I did it, with a laptop over my shoulder. I couldn't have carried a person. Two people couldn't have carried a person at night up that sheer hill. And it's in broad view of Broad Branch. No, no one took Chandra up that hill.
So you climb up that steep, rocky, slippery, treacherous footing wall, amd you are on top of a cliff, looking down at the creek and road far below. Over to the side is another gully, even deeper and wider and harder to get across than the creek it runs down into. And across that gully was where Chandra was found.
Read the newspaper accounts from Allan Lengel and Michael Doyle quoting this young man, or quoting the police who questioned him, and try to reconcile the accidental discovery of Chandra's skull with following your dog who bounded through hill and dale, supposedly attracted by the scent of the skull, and ask yourself, why had no other dog noticed this for the entire previous year?
The turtle hunter is just one of many people who need to be questioned by the grand jury.
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I thought he did nothing wrong. You would have to be totally oblivious if you didn't at least have some suspicions about Condit.
