The Thin Blue Line
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:41:04
I pull the pistol out and blow this man away.
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His testimony is...
:41:14
when I finally do drive to the motel...
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I get out. I tell him, "Don't worry about it.
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"Forget this ever happened."
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That's crazy.
:41:28
The police officer was killed at 12:30...
:41:30
which is about two and a half hours
after he last saw me.

:41:38
Just before he went into the motel...
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he'd gone across the motel courtyard...
:41:42
to a little store over there
and bought some cigarettes.

:41:45
And I was supposed to go and find out
if the man remembered him...

:41:49
coming in there just before 10:00
to buy the cigarettes.

:41:53
I didn't get over there
to Fort Worth for a long time.

:41:57
We got some pictures from his family
that didn't show him in jail clothes.

:42:02
I took the pictures in to show them
to the man behind the counter.

:42:06
He was very cooperative
and he wanted to help us.

:42:10
But he honestly... He said:
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"I don't remember anything
about this guy coming in there...

:42:14
"I couldn't tell one night from another.
Might have been that night or another.

:42:18
"Cause they were always coming
for cigarettes."

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His brother...
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at first...
:42:28
was saying that at the time
of the murder, that he was home...

:42:33
watching... I believe it was
a wrestling match on TV.

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And he said, "Me and my brother likes
wrestling matches. He was with me.

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"Randall, my brother,
was with me all night long.

:42:45
"He couldn't have done it."
:42:48
He was trying to cover for his brother.
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Later, as I recall, he changed...
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because he said:
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"If I get down there and perjure myself...

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