dwasson
04-13-2006, 06:42 PM
Detective Ford idly shuffled through the crime scene photos as he listened to the videotaped statement from Mrs. Smith.
“Bill, my husband, has been threatening to kill me the last two or three days. So, I loaded up my car and I was going to my mother’s. Anyway, I had just backed out of the garage, and pushed the garage door closer, when Bill drove up behind me. He ran out of his truck and opened my passenger door. I was scared to death, so I got the pistol from my purse and I shot him. Then I called 911.”
Ford heard the woman sobbing on the videotape as she explained how Mr. Smith has bought the pistol for home defense. As he half listened, he thumbed through the photos.
1.Mrs. Smith’s late model Grand Marquis, both front doors open, stopped between a F-150 and the garage door.
2.Bill Smith’s body, face down on the driveway in a pool of blood, with the shadow of a car door crossing his head.
3.Another view of Bill Smith’s body, looking toward the car, Ford could see through the open passenger side front door, across the leather upholstered bench seat.
4.A third view of Bill Smith’s body, a set of car keys just beyond his outreached right hand.
Meanwhile the statement on the videotape continued:
“Bring her in and question her again,” Ford said absently.
“Why,” one of the other policemen in the room asked?
“I don’t know how it happened,” Ford replied. “But it sure didn’t happen the way she says it did.”
Why did Ford think that Mrs. Smith was lyng?
“Bill, my husband, has been threatening to kill me the last two or three days. So, I loaded up my car and I was going to my mother’s. Anyway, I had just backed out of the garage, and pushed the garage door closer, when Bill drove up behind me. He ran out of his truck and opened my passenger door. I was scared to death, so I got the pistol from my purse and I shot him. Then I called 911.”
Ford heard the woman sobbing on the videotape as she explained how Mr. Smith has bought the pistol for home defense. As he half listened, he thumbed through the photos.
1.Mrs. Smith’s late model Grand Marquis, both front doors open, stopped between a F-150 and the garage door.
2.Bill Smith’s body, face down on the driveway in a pool of blood, with the shadow of a car door crossing his head.
3.Another view of Bill Smith’s body, looking toward the car, Ford could see through the open passenger side front door, across the leather upholstered bench seat.
4.A third view of Bill Smith’s body, a set of car keys just beyond his outreached right hand.
Meanwhile the statement on the videotape continued:
“Bring her in and question her again,” Ford said absently.
“Why,” one of the other policemen in the room asked?
“I don’t know how it happened,” Ford replied. “But it sure didn’t happen the way she says it did.”
Why did Ford think that Mrs. Smith was lyng?