''ACTUAL EVIDENCE''
For me, the problem with the Tippit shooting has always been the ID of the shells as being from an automatic pistol, by DPD Sgt. Gerald Hill.
I have only known two cops in my life, but both knew a lot about guns and ammo (stock in trade after all) and both regarded a crime against a fellow officer as most serious.
Beyond dispute, after viewing the shells found near the Tippit murder, Sgt. Hill got on the police radio and said, "the shells at the scene indicate that the suspect is armed with an automatic .38."
In a 1986 interview, Hill said he knew the shells were .38-caliber shells because he picked one of them up and examined it.
Automatic .38 shells, on the bottom, are imprinted very clearly with the word "auto."
It defies imagination that a police sergeant would look at an evidence shell at the scene of a brutal murder of a fellow officer, and then get on the police radio describe the shell type exactly wrong. A murder is serious business, and a murder of fellow officer the most serious of all.
There are not a myriad of shell types. There is revolver and auto. It is not a bewildering topic taking years to master.
The Sgt. Hill situation strongly suggests evidence was switched around after the fact.
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