Mr. Mooney - …So, at that time, I didn't lay my hands on anything, because I wanted to save every evidence we could for fingerprints. So I leaned out the window, the same window from which the shots were fired, looked down, and I saw Sheriff Bill Decker and Captain Will Fritz standing right on the ground.
Well, so I hollered, or signaled I hollered, I more or less hollered. I whistled a time or two before I got anybody to see me. And yet they was all looking that way, too except the sheriff, they wasn't looking up.
And I told him to get the crime lab officers en route, that I had the location spotted.
So I stood guard to see that no one disturbed anything until Captain Will Fritz approached with his group of officers, city officers. At that time, of course, when I hollered, of course Officers Vickery and Webster, they came across and later on several other deputies--I believe Officers McCurley, A. D. McCurley, I believe he came over. Where he came from--they was all en route up there, I assume.
Again, exactly when was Fritz supposed to have done this? The above testimony (by your man Mooney), indicates that Fritz was outside the building on the ground when he hollered out that the shells had been found. Therefore, it appears unlikely to me that Fritz could have made it all the way up to the sixth floor and done this before Sims was able to get there from one only floor above. So it seems to me that if Fritz did this, Sims and the other officers who went to the area would have seen it. Have Vickery, Webster, McCurley, or anyone else besides Alyea said anything about Fritz doing that?
Without any actual film that would show what Alyea said that he filmed, it is easy to discount his story. And I find it easy to discount Mooney’s story without any of his fellow officers (who were there) backing it up.
Of course you think Alyea and Mooney are lying, even though both men give specific, detailed first-hand accounts of Fritz picking up the shells.
You're an LNer, so why wouldn't you!
But why do you accept the staggering incompetence of the investigation when it comes to no photographic evidence of the original Sniper's Perch, no photographic evidence of the original position of the "Rifle Bag" and no photographic evidence of the original position of Bonnie Ray Williams' lunch remains?
You don't accept Fritz picked up the shell casings because you "find it very difficult to believe that someone with Fritz's experience would do something like that".
Yet you have no problem that Fritz does exactly the same thing with the live round. He ejects it from the rifle and pockets it without initialing it, thus destroying the chain of evidence. Does that sound like the actions of a veteran homicide detective?
We have seen photographic evidence that these bungling buffoons tried to re-stage the Sniper's Perch but you don't believe they would re-stage the position of the shells?
Of course you think Alyea, a news reporter, and Mooney, a Deputy Sheriff, are liars.
Yet you can offer absolutely no explanation why these two, completely unconnected men would offer independently corroborating, first-hand eye-witness testimony of Fritz picking up the shell casings and, according to Alyea, pocketing them.
Even though Fritz did exactly that with the live round!
Showing that this initial investigation was staggeringly incompetent is not a problem.
But Fritz picking up and pocketing the shell casings and the live round speaks of something beyond incompetence.
