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He gave me the pistol.
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I didn't really consider it that much.
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I don't guess I really realized
he did shoot the cop.
:18:10
He led me to a swampy area...
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several hundred yards
behind his residence in Rose City.
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There was a sock under water.
He said, "There it is."
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And he had sprayed this sock with boot oil.
:18:22
When we retrieved the gun...
:18:24
I said, "I better do something with it.
It's going to rust up."
:18:27
Even the time that I saw the gun
at the trial in Dallas...
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it looked just as good
as when I'd taken it out of the swamp.
:18:34
So he had taken pretty good care of it,
even though he did put it under water.
:18:42
He got to thinking...
:18:44
"I didn't do that
and I've been saying that I did...
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"and I'm in over my head now,
I better tell them what happened.
:18:51
"Because they are going to send me
to the penitentiary for life...
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"if I don't tell them what really happened."
:18:57
So he said, "I am just bragging about this.
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"I didn't do it, but I was there,
and I know who did do it."
:19:05
And, of course, he came clean then.
:19:09
He tried to hide no facts.
:19:12
He just seemed like a friendly kid.
:19:16
I may have talked to him
15 or 20 minutes on a friendly basis...
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just to keep him friendly.
:19:28
We didn't want to make him mad.
:19:34
But we didn't want him to tell us
something that he thought.
:19:36
We wanted him to tell us what we knew.
:19:39
It wasn't very long until I realized
that what he knew...
:19:43
was the facts of the case,
and it matched with what we knew.
:19:47
And it had to be right.
:19:49
The story that I told was...
:19:52
It was like 12:00 something.
So it was the next day...
:19:57
early in the morning. We were stopped.