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Old 10th February 2019, 09:57 AM   #928
Henri McPhee
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Murtagh and Stombaugh were telling lies as a matter of course and Fred Bost understood this. This is part of what MacDonald thinks about it all and it's true:

https://medium.com/@lajp/dr-jeffrey-...s-6f09003ac918

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He continued his litany of horrors. “While the army CID is under fire
for screwing up the investigation and covering up Stoeckley, guess what
happens? That’s right! An army lawyer, mind you, working for the CID
who screwed me in 1970, this weird little guy named Murtagh, takes this
box of jimmied evidence to the Justice Department. Now, guess what?
There’s a head hair from Colette, wrapped around a what? A pajama fiber!
It’s brand new, wasn’t there when the CID looked at it time and time
again. How creative! And the foreign hair they found in Colette’s hand,
the one thing that clobbered them in the army hearing, has now become
nothing. Somebody had cut it till it’s too small to test. Who did that?
Somebody did it, but who? The CID had even written notes on how
different it looked from other hairs they checked. But now, surprise,
surprise, not only is it too little to lab-test anymore, they hide the fact
that this was the hair they tested against me so Segal can’t challenge them
at trial! Say, bye bye to still another piece of evidence. Wonder who set
that up? Wonder who carried the evidence up to Stombaugh? You got it, Murtagh himself.
“But you can’t prove Murtagh changed the evidence.”
“Can’t prove anything until you can get your hands on it, and get him
on the stand in an evidentiary hearing, which they aren’t going to let me
have.
“So,” MacDonald says, his eyes tearful, “now they get a grand jury
hearing, then an indictment, then a trial in which we can’t lab-test the
evidence, can’t even see the ‘damned lab notes. And Dupree won’t allow
the Rock report, or psychiatric evidence, or the seven Stoeckley confession
witnesses. I’m convicted because the jurors, who still don’t believe I did
it, ask to see the blood chart, and, what did Murtagh arrange? The chart
he gives the jurors shows no blood in the hallway. Hey, MacDonald must
be lying, these twelve people say. Murtagh couldn’t be lying; he’s the God
damn government.” MacDonald’s voice cracks, and I realize there really is
no fun in this for him.

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