Posted on 10/18/2002 8:39:36 PM PDT by jaime1959
The big news today was that VA authorities are filing charges against Matthew Dowdy of Falls Church for making a false statement about the last shooting on Monday night.
ROCKVILLE, Md. (AP) - Virginia authorities on Friday arrested a man accused of misleading investigators in the Washington-area sniper shootings by falsely describing an olive-skinned man and a cream-colored Chevrolet Astro van with a burned-out taillight at the scene of one killing.
Matthew Dowdy, 37, of Falls Church, Va., was arrested by Fairfax County, Va., police Friday afternoon and charged with making a false statement, said police spokeswoman Isabel Benemelis. The charge carries a maximum penalty of six months in jail.
Authorities began doubting his story - what had initially seemed a good break in the frustrating case - after comparing it with accounts from others who saw the fatal shooting of an FBI analyst Monday night in a shopping center parking garage.
http://apnews1.iwon.com/article/20021018/D7MO9QCO0.html
This charge against Dowdy supposedly debunks a possible Middle Eastern connection (olive-skinned man), right?
However, Mr. Dowdy wasn't the only witness to see a man of possible Middle Eastern descent leaving the scene in a white van.
(AP) Robert Young, a Washington construction worker, was among witnesses who returned to the shopping center Tuesday to talk with police. He said he had heard a muffled gunshot and seen a white van Monday night.
Young said as he backed his truck out of his parking spot, a white Astro van with two men inside tried to turn into his lane. He said the driver appeared very agitated to find his way blocked and instead drove by a neighboring restaurant and out of sight.
Young described the driver as a short man of slight build who appeared to be Middle Eastern. "I got a good look at the guy," he said.
The driver "seemed to be excessively irritated because he couldn't pull into my lane," he said. "I thought this fool was going to want to get out of the van and duke or something. But he didn't. He kept on going."
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20021016/ap_on_re_us/sniper_shootings_214
So, while Mr. Dowdy may have lied, we have another witness who also saw a Middle Eastern looking man leaving the scene in a white van.
Curious.
Long before the Home Depot slaying, I recall news postings here that said that two guys that looked like Latinos (to a Marylander) were spotted in a white cargo truck.
That was after one of the first shootings.
The parking lanes are one way. Are we to believe this killer in the white van turned the wong way down a one way lane. If he was going the proper direction he pulled up behind the guy backing out. It is hard to get a good look through the body of your vehicle over your shoulder at a while van behind you.
But if the guy was going the wrong way it is very likely that he would not sit and glare. He is a killer trying to get away. If he doesn't get several miles down the road before the road is blocked he is toast. He has a rifle in the van. He can't get stopped and searched.
If he saw a car backing out blocking his way, he would be in reverse and backing out before any one could get much of a look at him. He would be looking in his rear view mirror or over his own shoulder backing up.
This liarn is no more credible than the last liar. They just can't prove he did not see a van or he would be in jail too. But he certainly did not see the van of a killer. Most likely he is making it up. I doubt there is a white van.
More likely a guy wearing a priests collar and driving a Ford Fiesta with a parsih name on the door.
Witnesses were describing these guys as "Hispanic" long before any described them as Middle Eastern.
Just how good are the Washington "snipers?" Are they skilled at all?
Therefore, a white guy.
I really doubt that Moose and co. would allow this perp to make a fool of them if they knew he was mid-eastern. Right now they are too concerned in apprehending the perp to bother with conspiracy theories (eg: the perp is mid-eastern and the cops are hiding the fact due some underground conspiracy between the US govt and mid-eastern Cabals to allow some shootings so that the US can attack Iraq)! You would be surprised with some of the stupid stuff floating around the web, and to be honest i am ashamed to even repeat it on FR since such trash should stay in the trash heaps of cyberspace!
And by the way several experts (ranging from FBI investigators, forensic experts, people concerned with foreign terrorist activities, and even one of the founding members of the Delta Force) have said that this perp (or as most say perpS) is/are just wannabees who are domestic and trying to spread some carnage.
Anyways whether this is 'bubba gone wild' domestic nut case or whether it is the top notch al Queda head honcho the thing is saying the following "I suspect that Moose and the authorities are deliberately using the arrest of the other fellow to obfuscate the matter and bury the idea that the murderer may be a Muslim terrorist" sounds too much like some of that conspiracy trash i have seen on the web.
Right now i am still wondering if this perp is just lucky or whether the Moose and his fellows are just incompetent/unlucky (or maybe both), but i highly doubt Moose and co. are refusing to release full evidence because the guy may be Islamic.
Or maybe i have not yet acquired the latest tin-foil cap!
This perp(s) may turn out to be domestic nutjobs (which is more probable), or they may turn out to be foreign ....but one thing i can say i am certain of is that the cops are not trying to 'obfuscate' the crime because they fear it may be the work of a foreign islamic terrorist.
If he got "a good look at the guy," then why no composite sketch?
.....do wha?.....
.....i dunno bout dat.....
Or maybe i have not yet acquired the latest tin-foil cap!Why exactly would you require a tinfoil cap to consider the possibility that the sniper is a midlle-eastern terrorist. And why do you consider such a statement to rate with UFO conspiracies?
So far, I think most of what we have heard is probably garbage. I'm not ready to assume anything.
What i was saying in that post is that i think saying Moose and his fellow cops are protecting the perp because he is a muslim terrorist is up there with reports of Sasquatch and the lil' green men with antennae. That was my focus not whether the guy is muslim or not. That is a possibility (that the perp or perps are al queda) but i refuse to accept that the area police are refusing to apprehend the perp because he is muslim.
And that is why i said maybe my refusal to accept that theory is due to my not having the latest tin-foil accessory.
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