There seems to be a continued and determined effort to discredit Cadosch for some reason. His initial thought was that the ‘no’ came from number 29 but he reflected that he couldn’t be absolutely certain about it. To me, that indicates an honest witness who wasn’t just determined to make a point at all costs. Because he heard the ‘no’ which he believed came from number 29 that meant that he was alerted to at least the possibility of someone being in the are of number 29 so hearing the noise, when he was a very few feet from the fence, is strong evidence that he did indeed hear something against the fence of number 29. No one else came forward as being in that yard and as according to Phillips there was a mutilated corpse there we can’t assume that someone would have failed to see it. So we are in the realm of accusing animals. A dog can be eliminated as it wouldn’t have got out of the yard and cats are very light and not known for their clumsiness.
No witness is perfect but to dismiss Cadosch is just silly. He’s a strong witness that there was a live human being in the yard of number 29 when he said that there was.All that we have against this are the old points/fallacies , a) if he was uncertain about one thing he must have been uncertain about everything, or b) he lied because he wanted his 15 minutes of fame. It’s weak stuff. It’s hard to avoid the conclusion that some people just don’t want Cadosch to have been right because they want/need an earlier TOD.
No witness is perfect but to dismiss Cadosch is just silly. He’s a strong witness that there was a live human being in the yard of number 29 when he said that there was.All that we have against this are the old points/fallacies , a) if he was uncertain about one thing he must have been uncertain about everything, or b) he lied because he wanted his 15 minutes of fame. It’s weak stuff. It’s hard to avoid the conclusion that some people just don’t want Cadosch to have been right because they want/need an earlier TOD.
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