The Thin Blue Line Page #3

We finally got the break that cleared it.

It came out of Vidor, Texas.

Mr. Calvin Cunningham, who lives

in Vidor, had his home broken into...

and his little Mercury Comet stolen.

We felt as though

David had committed that crime.

For several days, though,

he was missing. We couldn't find him.

It was one afternoon, one of our

officers spotted Cunningham's car...

on North Main Street, here in Vidor.

David abandoned the vehicle

and ran on foot.

We started getting

little bits of information, though...

that David had been involved in a

shooting in Dallas of a police officer.

We would always get

third-hand rumor, fourth-hand rumor.

So we went back to a few of his other

comrades in crime, we could call them.

They said,

"We thought he was just bragging.

"We didn't really take him seriously. "

Sitting down, watching the

evening news, well, the night news.

My father was asleep on the couch.

Heard somebody knocking at the door.

It was David Harris.

I let him in. He came in.

He was standing there beside my chair...

and a news broadcast advertised

about a police officer shot in Dallas.

Right then and there he starts

swearing up and down.

He says, "I swear to God,

I shot that f***ing pig. "

He says, "I'm the one that killed him. "

Somewhere around Dallas,

they got pulled over.

I think he said because

they were checking out a stolen car.

He said that the cop had pulled him over...

and walked up to the window.

When the cop came,

he rolled down the window...

and just pulled the gun up and shot him.

He swore up and down.

He made a big scene about it.

Jumped up and down...

trying to get anybody and everybody...

to listen to him.

"Yeah, I shot that son of a gun. "

And everybody said,

"Sure you did, David. Sure. "

"I swear to God I killed that cop. "

I asked him if he'd been to Dallas.

He denied having been to Dallas.

I asked him if he'd been involved

in any shooting...

or knew anything about a shooting,

and he denied that to the end.

Which is fairly consistent with David.

Even if he had some involvement...

his first way that he always treats you,

he would deny.

Then, if he felt as though

you really knew he had done it...

then he would be truthful with you.

He give me a pistol, a. 22 caliber pistol.

He showed it to me. He says,

"That's the one I shot him with. "

He gave me the pistol.

I didn't really consider it that much.

I don't guess I really realized

he did shoot the cop.

He led me to a swampy area...

several hundred yards

behind his residence in Rose City.

There was a sock under water.

He said, "There it is. "

And he had sprayed this sock with boot oil.

When we retrieved the gun...

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