:17:03
He said that the cop had pulled him over...
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and walked up to the window.
:17:09
When the cop came,
he rolled down the window...
:17:11
and just pulled the gun up and shot him.
:17:13
He swore up and down.
:17:15
He made a big scene about it.
Jumped up and down...
:17:18
trying to get anybody and everybody...
:17:20
to listen to him.
"Yeah, I shot that son of a gun."
:17:23
And everybody said,
"Sure you did, David. Sure."
:17:26
"I swear to God I killed that cop."
:17:29
I asked him if he'd been to Dallas.
He denied having been to Dallas.
:17:34
I asked him if he'd been involved
in any shooting...
:17:36
or knew anything about a shooting,
and he denied that to the end.
:17:41
Which is fairly consistent with David.
Even if he had some involvement...
:17:44
his first way that he always treats you,
he would deny.
:17:48
Then, if he felt as though
you really knew he had done it...
:17:51
then he would be truthful with you.
:17:53
He give me a pistol, a.22 caliber pistol.
:17:56
He showed it to me. He says,
"That's the one I shot him with."
:18:01
He gave me the pistol.
:18:04
I didn't really consider it that much.
:18:06
I don't guess I really realized
he did shoot the cop.
:18:10
He led me to a swampy area...
:18:13
several hundred yards
behind his residence in Rose City.
:18:15
There was a sock under water.
He said, "There it is."
:18:18
And he had sprayed this sock with boot oil.
:18:22
When we retrieved the gun...
:18:24
I said, "I better do something with it.
It's going to rust up."
:18:27
Even the time that I saw the gun
at the trial in Dallas...
:18:31
it looked just as good
as when I'd taken it out of the swamp.
:18:34
So he had taken pretty good care of it,
even though he did put it under water.
:18:42
He got to thinking...
:18:44
"I didn't do that
and I've been saying that I did...
:18:47
"and I'm in over my head now,
I better tell them what happened.
:18:51
"Because they are going to send me
to the penitentiary for life...
:18:55
"if I don't tell them what really happened."
:18:57
So he said, "I am just bragging about this.