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and she runs to his aid.

Procedure says you grab the radio

and call for an ambulance.

Common sense would tell you that.

But what do you do?

And that time, she's so... just tore down.

And the blood.

An enormous amount of blood.

How do we hold her responsible

for not following procedure?

But the main thing was, she

couldn't remember the license number.

When we started putting facts together

on how much information we had...

from the leads we had,

we found out we didn't have anything.

The only thing that we knew

we were looking for was a blue Vega.

Probably every Vega that was

registered in the state of Texas...

was stopped and checked.

We had people calling the office...

saying, "I've got a Vega and it's not blue.

"But would you come out

and be sure to check it.

"Be sure it's not mine, because

I don't want to get stopped anymore.

"I'm afraid. "

If you're the investigator

assigned to the murder...

you get frustrated with other witnesses.

But when you got a police officer

that witnessed it...

you expect that they would know

a little more than she knew.

Procedure.

When there's a two-person unit,

when either one approaches the car...

the other positions himself

to the right rear...

where they can watch

all the activity in the car.

And if the man on the left of the driver

gets in trouble...

their partner is in a position to help.

Speculation was, at the time...

that his partner was sitting in the car.

That's where the discrepancies were.

Just a matter of time, and whether

or not she was out of the car...

completely out of the car,

or partially in the car...

or just sitting in there with the door closed.

And the thing I think we did then

that really helped...

It didn't really help anything at all.

Let me back up.

But it was interesting,

and it cost a lot of money...

but it was worthwhile.

You got to cover every trail.

A guy out of California...

I don't recall his name,

he was an expert in hypnosis.

He came down,

hypnotized her and questioned her.

What was interesting was...

she couldn't remember anything

particularly about the car.

She remembered getting a malt.

They'd stopped in the fast-food.

It was a Whataburger.

They remembered all that,

and stopping the car.

Got back on the road.

She didn't remember anything.

But she remembered a license number

off a hit-and-run vehicle...

that they had worked earlier in the night.

It was getting awfully close to Christmas.

We'd never gone that long in Dallas

without clearing a murder of an officer.

We'd had several killed,

but we'd cleared them pretty quick.

And this case had gone a month,

or nearly a month...

and we still hadn't cleared it.

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