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- 0:05Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. In the last hours, we
- 0:16Speaker 1: learned that very very unobtrusively, the body of a young
- 0:23Speaker 1: team Stephen Smith in South Carolina has been exhumed. What
- 0:28Speaker 1: does that mean? He's been dug up from the cemetery.
- 0:32Speaker 1: For lack of a better phrase to describe it, as
- 0:35Speaker 1: we all know, Stephen Smith, a young teen, openly gay
- 0:40Speaker 1: and a rural area in South Carolina. Body found by
- 0:46Speaker 1: a stranger a pastors by about three o'clock in the morning,
- 0:51Speaker 1: ish very dark road. There is no there are no
- 0:57Speaker 1: skid marks there. We find no abrasions on his body
- 1:04Speaker 1: to suggest he was hit and then dragged along the asphalt.
- 1:09Speaker 1: There is no sign of plastic, glass, metal, anything from
- 1:16Speaker 1: a car. This is a major major development. And joining
- 1:21Speaker 1: me right now, high profile lawyer out of Jacksonville, Dale Carson,
- 1:26Speaker 1: author of Arrest Proof Yourself, former FBI agent with the FEDS, Dale,
- 1:32Speaker 1: thank you for being with us. This is another thing
- 1:35Speaker 1: I've learned I want you to analyze. We learn that,
- 1:40Speaker 1: according to sources, two pois have been named and they
- 1:45Speaker 1: are not bust A Murdog. Now is there going to
- 1:48Speaker 1: be a Murdoi connection. Maybe, but tangentially and I'll get
- 1:54Speaker 1: to that these two individuals were teams selves at the time,
- 2:01Speaker 1: lived near Moselle. The hunting lodge's not far from Moselle,
- 2:06Speaker 1: about eight to eleven minutes on the road where Steven
- 2:09Speaker 1: Smith's body was found, which trigger all sorts of speculation
- 2:14Speaker 1: they also lived in there there. Now, this is what
- 2:18Speaker 1: we're learning, Dale Carson. According to sources, these two pois
- 2:24Speaker 1: teams themselves at the time, we're out late at night
- 2:29Speaker 1: and hit Stephen Smith, then tried to cover it up.
- 2:36Speaker 1: What do you make of what we're learning right now?
- 2:37Speaker 1: And how difficult is it to get an order of
- 2:41Speaker 1: exhimation and then actually autopsy an already embalmed body. Well,
- 2:48Speaker 1: of course, what we're looking for here is injuries consistent
- 2:54Speaker 1: with a hit run vehicular homicide. That's what we're looking
- 2:59Speaker 1: for because that's where everything was initially focused. And you're
- 3:04Speaker 1: looking for things that will be patently evident in the
- 3:10Speaker 1: egg zoomed autopsy. You're looking for spiral fractures below the knee.
- 3:16Speaker 1: You're looking for places most individuals who are walking in
- 3:21Speaker 1: the roadway and are struck by a vehicle. I've handled
- 3:24Speaker 1: a number of these cases as a cop in Miami,
- 3:28Speaker 1: you get fractures below the legs. In addition to that,
- 3:32Speaker 1: below the knee rather, and in addition to that, you're
- 3:35Speaker 1: going to have what I call a dirt dump. Now,
- 3:38Speaker 1: this is rural South Carolina, and a dirt dump is
- 3:42Speaker 1: where your car strikes something and when it does, all
- 3:45Speaker 1: the material that is up in the wheel weells and
- 3:49Speaker 1: on the frame dropped onto the ground. So typically at
- 3:52Speaker 1: the strike point, you're gonna find dirt. If you don't
- 3:55Speaker 1: find anything else, what do you mean dirt on a
- 3:58Speaker 1: paved road. Sure, sure, you're gonna find clumps of mud
- 4:05Speaker 1: that have become dislodged from the wheel wells. Remember this
- 4:08Speaker 1: is the rural South, but it's still it's still on
- 4:11Speaker 1: a paved road. That's all right. You're gonna find clumps
- 4:15Speaker 1: at the strike point. Now, if you don't find clumps
- 4:19Speaker 1: of dirt and debris at the strike point where the
- 4:24Speaker 1: bumper of the truck or car has hit the individual
- 4:27Speaker 1: fractured below the knee and the result is that strike
- 4:31Speaker 1: impacts the car when or truck when it impacts it,
- 4:35Speaker 1: you have massive amounts of dirt that come out of
- 4:39Speaker 1: the car. If you hit the brakes real hard on
- 4:42Speaker 1: your car You're gonna cause us. Say, when you drive
- 4:44Speaker 1: down the road and you hit a bump in the road,
- 4:46Speaker 1: and you see all the oil that's right there, that's
- 4:49Speaker 1: from the car hitting that bump, gravity pulling the oil
- 4:54Speaker 1: that's around the engine or other parts onto the ground.
- 4:57Speaker 1: So you see those spots. That's what I'm talking about.
- 5:00Speaker 1: And I'm letting all this think in. Look, I'm a
- 5:03Speaker 1: j D I'm not an auto mechanic, but I hear
- 5:06Speaker 1: what you're saying. It makes perfect sense to me. Keep going.
- 5:09Speaker 1: I want to hear every word. So you find these
- 5:13Speaker 1: spiral fractures, particularly where the individual is walking and the
- 5:18Speaker 1: direction of travel, and so if he's facing a car,
- 5:21Speaker 1: which typically I'm damn for Pete's sake, man, what if
- 5:26Speaker 1: you're facing a car and you're walking, you're walking down
- 5:30Speaker 1: the road you run out of gas, which, by the way,
- 5:32Speaker 1: brings up another interesting point. You run out of gas,
- 5:35Speaker 1: why would you take the gas calf off your tank
- 5:37Speaker 1: and look into it? Oh? Yes, yes, I mean I
- 5:42Speaker 1: want to tell you something else I learned. I can't
- 5:44Speaker 1: wait for you to hear this. So I've been doing
- 5:47Speaker 1: a little bit of digging, and apparently Steven Smith he
- 5:52Speaker 1: had a one night stand before the death, but not
- 5:59Speaker 1: in the hours leading up to the death. He also
- 6:03Speaker 1: had a boyfriend, and the boyfriend says that he contacted
- 6:11Speaker 1: Stephen Smith as late as three thirty seven am, and
- 6:16Speaker 1: that was less than half an hour before the body
- 6:20Speaker 1: is found. And he also says that Stephen Smith believed
- 6:28Speaker 1: someone was following him. Well, I look back in the
- 6:34Speaker 1: seventies in Miami, when I was a cop down there,
- 6:37Speaker 1: rolling individuals, rolling as in injuring drunks and gage was
- 6:45Speaker 1: the order of the day, says in the seventies, man,
- 6:50Speaker 1: I know. My point is that behavior still exists today.
- 6:55Speaker 1: It's really hard for me to embrace that because who
- 6:58Speaker 1: cares if you're gay or not. Gay? Is all I
- 7:01Speaker 1: could do to keep our car in the middle of
- 7:04Speaker 1: the road, in other words, to keep my family, to
- 7:06Speaker 1: keep the children in school, to keep up with their assignments,
- 7:11Speaker 1: the Scouts, this the work, the blah this. I can't
- 7:15Speaker 1: worry about what somebody else is doing. I don't have
- 7:18Speaker 1: the energy. I can't. It's very hard for me to
- 7:20Speaker 1: take in gay hatred. But I will tell you this, Um,
- 7:27Speaker 1: I don't know if I've told you this. Del Carson,
- 7:29Speaker 1: one of the first cases I worked trying to hold
- 7:33Speaker 1: it on a pill, which we did, by the way,
- 7:36Speaker 1: was one of the most vicious gay people. What holding
- 7:41Speaker 1: on a peal means holding me a pill? That means
- 7:44Speaker 1: thank you, you're right. You get a convictionate trial then,
- 7:48Speaker 1: like we see happening in murdog right now, the defendant
- 7:52Speaker 1: has nothing to do all day but sit in jail
- 7:55Speaker 1: and think, Wow, how can I get this thing reversed?
- 7:57Speaker 1: On a pill? They go to jail house lawyers and
- 7:59Speaker 1: Murlogh is a lawyer. He's gonna live in the law library.
- 8:03Speaker 1: He's gonna scheme and gnash his teeth and switch his
- 8:07Speaker 1: tail twenty four seven three sixty five trying to come
- 8:11Speaker 1: up with an appealable ground. So you know you're in
- 8:15Speaker 1: for it. When you get a homicide conviction, a murder conviction,
- 8:19Speaker 1: they will say anything, including turning on their own defense lawyers,
- 8:23Speaker 1: who probably did a pretty good job and claiming they're ineffective.
- 8:27Speaker 1: That always happens on appeal, and the defense lawyer typically
- 8:31Speaker 1: goes along with it, goes, yeah, I'm ineffective, I was
- 8:33Speaker 1: awful at trial to try to help the client. Of course,
- 8:37Speaker 1: the appellate courts know this and they're like, yeah, right,
- 8:39Speaker 1: you're infective. Long story short again, in that case, once
- 8:46Speaker 1: you get the conviction, you gotta hold it. You got
- 8:49Speaker 1: to hold it on appeal. That's what that means. And
- 8:52Speaker 1: you're right, I did need to explain that. You've got
- 8:54Speaker 1: to make sure that I have all the myriad of
- 8:58Speaker 1: counts the defense puts up as to why the case
- 9:02Speaker 1: should be reversed, all the imaginary slights and unconstitutional practices
- 9:08Speaker 1: in court. And then then this jerr fell asleep and
- 9:10Speaker 1: the judge did this, and they go on and on.
- 9:14Speaker 1: You got to hold it, and you got to be
- 9:16Speaker 1: ready to get questions by the appellate court. And this
- 9:19Speaker 1: was to the Georgia Supreme Court that I argued this case.
- 9:23Speaker 1: And I don't know if it's like this in your jurisdiction,
- 9:25Speaker 1: but here at the lect turn, you've got the whole
- 9:28Speaker 1: court in front of you. They're all looking at you
- 9:30Speaker 1: to do your argument. There is a green light, a
- 9:34Speaker 1: yellow light, and a red light on the lect turn.
- 9:38Speaker 1: Green means goat. Yellow means you're running out of time.
- 9:41Speaker 1: Red means if you don't sit down right now, we'll
- 9:44Speaker 1: have the bill remove you and you'll be kicked out
- 9:47Speaker 1: of the courtroom. Yes, just like a traffic light. So
- 9:51Speaker 1: that this case was about a series of young black
- 9:57Speaker 1: males that were ray a ray and then shot in
- 10:02Speaker 1: the head, almost always with thirty eight caliber in the
- 10:05Speaker 1: back of the head a little bit to the right side,
- 10:09Speaker 1: which means a right handed killer. Anyway, we got the
- 10:13Speaker 1: guy convicted, the guy and I was trying to hold
- 10:17Speaker 1: it on a pill. So yes, I have dealt with
- 10:22Speaker 1: horrible hatred toward gay men. And I had more after that,
- 10:28Speaker 1: but that was the first one. And it's really hard
- 10:30Speaker 1: for me to imagine this hatred, but it exists. So
- 10:36Speaker 1: you got to factor that in as well. Del Carson
- 10:39Speaker 1: about Stephen Smith was killed, Well, there's more. If you
- 10:44Speaker 1: go down a rural highway, you'll see what you and rural.
- 10:47Speaker 1: It's always rural with you. What do you have a
- 10:49Speaker 1: thinking about? Okay, our country. You're right down a country road.
- 10:53Speaker 1: You're gonna see mail boxes on the side of the road,
- 10:55Speaker 1: and some of them will be destroyed. Do you know
- 10:58Speaker 1: how that happens? I think you're about to sell me. Okay,
- 11:03Speaker 1: you ride down the road in your truck and you
- 11:05Speaker 1: have a baseball bat, which these boys were in baseball
- 11:08Speaker 1: teams right, and you reach out of the window. The
- 11:11Speaker 1: passenger does typically and strikes the mailbox to great amazement.
- 11:17Speaker 1: The thing gets destroyed, and the boys cheer. All right,
- 11:21Speaker 1: so you obviously they don't have enough to do well.
- 11:26Speaker 1: Obviously they're destructive and they like to do those kind
- 11:30Speaker 1: of things. So you'll see big concrete mailboxes which cannot
- 11:35Speaker 1: be destroyed in that fashion. The point is, we're gonna
- 11:38Speaker 1: see whether that blunt force trauma came from a car
- 11:44Speaker 1: where it fractured, caused abrasions to the skin and things
- 11:48Speaker 1: in primary and secondary exploits. In fair for you? Are
- 11:55Speaker 1: you continue to tell me about assaulting mailboxes? All right, folks?
- 12:00Speaker 1: So if those other factors don't exist in the post
- 12:04Speaker 1: mortem and there aren't fractured legs, then what about riding
- 12:10Speaker 1: down the road seeing the guy you come around back,
- 12:13Speaker 1: you don't like him, and you take one of those
- 12:16Speaker 1: bats and you hit him with it, and it of
- 12:18Speaker 1: course guilty. That's a really good point. Time stories with
- 12:35Speaker 1: Nancy Grace can't tell you what else I've learned, okay,
- 12:41Speaker 1: according Okay, now I know the two names of the
- 12:45Speaker 1: pois persons of interest, but I'm gonna call him number
- 12:47Speaker 1: one and number two. Okay, number one and number two.
- 12:52Speaker 1: I'm gonna let number one be the non driver and
- 12:58Speaker 1: number two be the driver. Number two is the driver. Okay,
- 13:03Speaker 1: so this is what we understand. One of the two
- 13:08Speaker 1: came over to the tipster, an anonymous tipster who I
- 13:12Speaker 1: think I may know who it is, but anyway, the
- 13:14Speaker 1: anonymous tipster says, one of the two POI's persons of
- 13:19Speaker 1: interest come over to tipster's house and told tipster that
- 13:25Speaker 1: number two, the driver was drunk and hit something that
- 13:32Speaker 1: he went back the next day to see what he
- 13:35Speaker 1: had hit, which is a live course, see what he hit.
- 13:38Speaker 1: The next day, it saw a lot of police out there.
- 13:41Speaker 1: Then he learned by media that someone had been killed
- 13:45Speaker 1: and that's why police were there. The tipster said, person one,
- 13:52Speaker 1: not the driver, was visibly distraught, crying, and when he
- 13:57Speaker 1: got through telling a story, walked outside of the house
- 14:00Speaker 1: and threw up two. The driver may have tried to
- 14:06Speaker 1: cover up evidence, having his mirror fixed on his vehicle
- 14:14Speaker 1: patched up one of the mirrors on his truck. There
- 14:20Speaker 1: were rumors and there is somewhat of a Murdi connection,
- 14:25Speaker 1: only allegedly that Randy Murdog got another witness to call
- 14:34Speaker 1: cops and ride out number two the driver. Now my
- 14:40Speaker 1: question to you is all this happened back in twenty fifteen.
- 14:47Speaker 1: You've got a tempster telling an agent PI one came
- 14:54Speaker 1: over rated out POI two personal mitches two. PI one
- 15:00Speaker 1: was so upset about it he threw up just describing
- 15:04Speaker 1: what happened? What in the hay has been going on
- 15:09Speaker 1: since two thousand and fifteen? Dale Carson, Well, I look,
- 15:14Speaker 1: that's fairly straightforward, at least for me. If only a
- 15:19Speaker 1: truck mirror, one of those extended mirrors on the side
- 15:22Speaker 1: of your truck hits somebody, if that happened, there might
- 15:25Speaker 1: not be leg fractures. Okay, And that's a really good explanation.
- 15:30Speaker 1: Why was actually struck with a bad I got something
- 15:34Speaker 1: else for you before I forget it, because you know
- 15:37Speaker 1: up here my head, I'll go to the next thing.
- 15:39Speaker 1: I gotta tell you one more thing. Throw this into
- 15:41Speaker 1: your analysis, Dell Carson, How do I say this? Okay?
- 15:48Speaker 1: Have you ever seen aristocrats? Wait? No? Wait? Or is
- 15:55Speaker 1: it a one hundred mille dalmations? Okay? There are two
- 15:58Speaker 1: hound dogs Sydney. Could you please look this up? They're
- 16:02Speaker 1: two hound dogs and one is Napoleon and he's in charge,
- 16:11Speaker 1: much like Barney five. And in the distance he hears
- 16:16Speaker 1: a car. Wait, yeah, see here's a car and it's
- 16:23Speaker 1: egg Berton the butler. Oh so that means it's aristocrat
- 16:25Speaker 1: oristcats and eggbert the Butler is riding a motorcycle with
- 16:30Speaker 1: sidecar and at a distance, Napoleon Wasn't the dog's named Napoleon? Okay,
- 16:36Speaker 1: who's the other dog? I just want to know how
- 16:37Speaker 1: to curiosity? Please look it up? Anyway, Wait a minute,
- 16:42Speaker 1: So I'm going somewhere with this. Wait. Wait, Napoleon has
- 16:47Speaker 1: up his ears straight up. He goes, uh huh, it's
- 16:49Speaker 1: a motorcycle, it's got a sidecar, blah blah. And he
- 16:54Speaker 1: could hear what the vehicle is a mile away and
- 16:58Speaker 1: identify it, do you know, Like, for instance, my husband
- 17:03Speaker 1: is always late to supper and the three of us
- 17:07Speaker 1: are sitting there and what we do is we lay
- 17:09Speaker 1: our heads down on the table and act like we're asleep,
- 17:12Speaker 1: and we're all going. But this is how we know
- 17:15Speaker 1: when to start fake snoring, because we can tell the
- 17:20Speaker 1: way he opens the door that it's him. We can
- 17:24Speaker 1: hear his car, we can recognize his vehicle, and we
- 17:27Speaker 1: know how he opens the door unlike anybody else, and
- 17:30Speaker 1: then we immediately fake sleep. What I'm saying is, there's
- 17:34Speaker 1: a witness in this case. It's the then boyfriend who
- 17:39Speaker 1: is communicating back and forth with Stephen Smith that night,
- 17:43Speaker 1: less than half an hour before Smith is killed. And
- 17:47Speaker 1: he says he hears quote big mud tires. Now, if
- 17:54Speaker 1: I hear one tire versus another tire, I don't know
- 17:57Speaker 1: that I could tell a difference, But it can be done,
- 17:59Speaker 1: Dal Carson, it can be done absolutely. And the rural south,
- 18:04Speaker 1: well that was the dog's name. Okay, go ahead. So
- 18:10Speaker 1: in my area of the city in Florida, you don't
- 18:15Speaker 1: hear off the road tires very much, but in the
- 18:18Speaker 1: country areas you do. And certainly you could know a
- 18:22Speaker 1: muffler sound from a car. You can certainly hear from
- 18:26Speaker 1: the tires, and it makes a tremendous racket. So they're
- 18:31Speaker 1: elevated cars, trucks weather. So if they're elevated, well, the
- 18:37Speaker 1: mirror on a car wouldn't just hit somebody in the
- 18:40Speaker 1: back of the head or the front of the head,
- 18:43Speaker 1: which is where the strike was on Smith. So the
- 18:48Speaker 1: entire matter seems to be contrived. It's contrived. So if
- 18:53Speaker 1: you had to make an explanation for somebody who was
- 18:56Speaker 1: actually struck with a bat by ne'er do wells riding
- 18:59Speaker 1: around Sound in a car and finding a gay guy
- 19:02Speaker 1: walking alone in the middle of a road, and you
- 19:05Speaker 1: know this individual and you turn around and you want
- 19:08Speaker 1: to scare him, but you accidentally intentionally kill him. If that,
- 19:14Speaker 1: in fact would happen, then your circumstance with knowing the truck,
- 19:20Speaker 1: you would turn and look at it. Time stories with
- 19:37Speaker 1: Nancy Grace. You know, I got a question for you.
- 19:41Speaker 1: What are you so hell bent on them using a bat?
- 19:45Speaker 1: I mean, I've just told you that according to this tipster,
- 19:49Speaker 1: And granted that's not a completely credible source, but it's
- 19:54Speaker 1: a tipster who's got facts that suggest Stephen Smith was
- 19:59Speaker 1: hit by a truck by the side mirror, which then
- 20:03Speaker 1: had to be fixed. I eat taped up. What is
- 20:07Speaker 1: it with you in the bat? What I'm what I'm
- 20:11Speaker 1: suggesting to you is there's a difference for me to
- 20:15Speaker 1: just walk down the cricket path of Dale Carson land
- 20:19Speaker 1: Well and it may figure out you've hit now so far,
- 20:22Speaker 1: you've hit a couple of mailboxes with a bat. Now
- 20:26Speaker 1: you've got back to the seventies where people here gay
- 20:28Speaker 1: people with a bat. Can. We deal with the facts
- 20:31Speaker 1: as we know them in this case, well as you
- 20:35Speaker 1: may believe them to be. But if a mirror strikes
- 20:38Speaker 1: an individual, one of those mirrors is going to leave
- 20:40Speaker 1: glass at the strike point, and we didn't find any glass.
- 20:44Speaker 1: You're right saying, you're right that the entire process is
- 20:48Speaker 1: contrived by a family and charge of what really happened.
- 20:53Speaker 1: And when you contrive something, you've got to make a
- 20:56Speaker 1: reason for it, and that reason's got to be consistent
- 21:00Speaker 1: with the apparent facts. So you have one which is
- 21:03Speaker 1: an hit and run, it's an ACTIVI it horrible, it
- 21:06Speaker 1: happens with people who are drinking and driving, and it's wrong.
- 21:09Speaker 1: But another thing's altogether there. If there's a relationship that
- 21:13Speaker 1: somebody doesn't want revealed, and you have an opportunity to
- 21:17Speaker 1: get rid of that problem, and you do so as
- 21:20Speaker 1: consistent with the behaviors of certain well known families in
- 21:24Speaker 1: that area, you've got to contrive it. So the first
- 21:26Speaker 1: thing you got to do is called victim's mother and say, look,
- 21:30Speaker 1: I'll represent you for free, not for a fee. But
- 21:33Speaker 1: for free. Why would they do that? Well, hold on
- 21:36Speaker 1: just a moment, I'm going to go into your conspiracy
- 21:39Speaker 1: theory riddled mind for just one moment. Hold on, wait
- 21:44Speaker 1: a minute, I'm going with you on this, just a moment,
- 21:48Speaker 1: Del Carson. Let me get my thought, Let me marshal
- 21:50Speaker 1: my thoughts. Because according to the father, a POI person
- 21:55Speaker 1: of it, just number one, the stepfather, a person of
- 21:59Speaker 1: interest Number one, not the driver. Number one, tells stepfather
- 22:04Speaker 1: what happened that Number two hit Stephen Smith and killed him.
- 22:12Speaker 1: The father, the stepfather of number one, says that Randy
- 22:17Speaker 1: Murdog got him, the stepfather, to tell the story to cops.
- 22:25Speaker 1: What is Randy Murdock doing up in the middle of this?
- 22:27Speaker 1: If in fact this is true, we don't know it's true.
- 22:30Speaker 1: I mean, and number two, the driver apparently has a
- 22:36Speaker 1: history of d y, domestic violence, a pot pourri of offenses.
- 22:48Speaker 1: He just smells, you know, just because it's got a
- 22:52Speaker 1: whole as I said, trash bag full of offenses, none
- 22:56Speaker 1: of them rising to a felony that I know of.
- 22:59Speaker 1: But he's just he's just a cesspool brewing with all
- 23:04Speaker 1: his offenses and that boom. Now we've got this. So
- 23:08Speaker 1: how does Brandy Murdoch get injected into this? Well, you know,
- 23:15Speaker 1: in two individuals who don't want the truth of a
- 23:20Speaker 1: matter known often do things to prevent that truth from
- 23:25Speaker 1: being revealed. I mean that's just human nature. Wait, are
- 23:28Speaker 1: you one of those people that think LBJ murder JFK?
- 23:35Speaker 1: Did he? Oh? Okay, thank goodness, you're not into that one.
- 23:38Speaker 1: But you're definitely seeing a conspiracy here, and you're roping
- 23:42Speaker 1: in the murdogs that they are pointing to number one
- 23:46Speaker 1: and number two. But it's really them, is that what
- 23:49Speaker 1: you're saying, Well, it's somebody else. Whether it is an
- 23:54Speaker 1: actual murdog is another matter altogether, But clearly the exhumation
- 23:59Speaker 1: is going to provide some evidence as to what happened.
- 24:04Speaker 1: And I've seen a number of hit and run traffic
- 24:07Speaker 1: fatalities and I have never seen somebody hit by just
- 24:11Speaker 1: a mirror. I mean, that's unusual. Well, I want to
- 24:15Speaker 1: follow up on that because I think you're right apparently,
- 24:18Speaker 1: and we're going to find out from the independent autopsy.
- 24:23Speaker 1: Stephen Smith had bruising to one side of his body,
- 24:28Speaker 1: but the fatal the cause of the death cod was
- 24:35Speaker 1: a blood of the head of some sort. Well, it
- 24:37Speaker 1: was originally thought it was a gunshot, that's right, and
- 24:41Speaker 1: so you've got to look at the photographs. You've got
- 24:44Speaker 1: to look at the actual fracture. You know, there's a
- 24:47Speaker 1: difference between a high speed fracture and a low speed fracture.
- 24:52Speaker 1: It's called Britton's and it's that is a term that's
- 24:56Speaker 1: used with the military to describe the ability of a
- 25:00Speaker 1: an explosive to move things. And they're different speeded. So
- 25:06Speaker 1: if the truck was going five miles an hour versus
- 25:09Speaker 1: fifty miles an hour, or a bat was traveling at
- 25:13Speaker 1: sixty miles an hour, there's a difference. And you can
- 25:16Speaker 1: tell whether the back of a mirror hit his forehead
- 25:20Speaker 1: or whether it was something else. I mean, I just
- 25:23Speaker 1: see him walking on the road. A truck passes him,
- 25:26Speaker 1: and this is information that's available in some of the
- 25:29Speaker 1: information I've read in the media. Somebody sees him, they
- 25:33Speaker 1: dislike him, They turned the truck around. He thinks that
- 25:36Speaker 1: somebody that knows hims is going to rescue him from
- 25:38Speaker 1: his car is out of gas. They come by quickly
- 25:42Speaker 1: and they intentionally injure him. Right now, we've got a
- 25:48Speaker 1: lot of facts brewing Let's see what happens when more
- 25:53Speaker 1: of the facts are formally released. We wait as justice
- 25:59Speaker 1: of holes. Thanks Dale Carson, goodbye friendsh