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Witnesses were inmates to. sketchy. i ve never met a convict just because he wants to be a nice guy or nice citizen. there s always something in it for. and that woman the, star witness found by the cool case team who said he she saw the truman coming going from terrace house. she made herself believe this after all the time to make sure the bad guy goes away. david but mcmannis s attorney said those detectives focus on the wrong. man and said phil barr s accomplice must of been peewee st. john. the man who turned in jewelry three days after tehran went missing. there s enough circumstantial evidence to believe that he was involved. if not in the murder, but definitely in the complicity to govern it up. the only thing that dave mcmannis was guilty of, was being a sarcastic guy. the majority of the statements that were made were sarcasm at best. that s kind of an easy out for saying terrible things. isn t it? well, it was an inappropriate statement. if said at all, d ....
Receipt cast serious doubt on philip barr s alibi didn t exactly wreck it, but it caught him in a significant lie. that s how detailed we were getting. but then they just happened to run into a guy who said he knew barr and mcmannis and peewee. and he overheard them talking about killing this girl. he heard david mcmannis say, we shouldn t have done that girl that way. if i don t get out of town, i m gonna spend the rest of my life in jail. phillip barr said something similar because peewee is talking about, well, i ve only seen a body. it s not against the law to see see a body. and barr tells him, hey, shut up. we re all gonna end up in prison. and it was somebody with credibility. better than what we had before, yeah. but overall, a key problem remained. terrible witnesses. meaning detectives spoke with other people who d also heard the men talk about the murder, but they were not the type a jury would likely believe. much of what they d say sounded like d ....
The other went went straight to the front door. all business? all business. that, said the prosecutor, is when they cleaned up and took tara s body in a bed sheet, loaded it into the truck, and waited for dark when one or both of them dumped her body in the woods. but to tell that story took two long trials, each peopled by witnesses the jury might not think were very credible. people who supposedly heard barr and mcmanis say things. we raped and killed the girl. they re not gonna find her. i m going to kill you like i killed the girl in florida. the girl i killed was 20. one witness testified about overhearing a conversation between barr and mcmannis. phillip barr was saying to david mcmannis, i didn t want to kill her. and she overheard david mcmannis respond, she had to die. not very believable, said the defense attorneys. just people making things up, said ....
Nine, 10, like maybe a dozen steps away where this truck is parked. yes. so, that s close, yeah. it s very close. huh. so if if the back of truck, it would ve been, how how far from the door? like, right up to the door like that? that s correct. and and in this general area, on the outside track, tire track, was found the hair ribbons. way out here? right out here. okay. so suggesting that they put her in the back of the truck and the hair ribbons came loose as they were driving away or putting her there or something? that would be a pretty good explanation. well, well, well. this makes it all the more real when you see how close this must have been. the woman said she didn t actually see what the men were doing, because the cab of the truck blocked her view. but still, this was way more than they had before. finally, 14 years after tara vanished, barr and mcmannis were going on ....
They had really were lingering suspicions about the workmen who went to tara s house the day she vanished. phil barr, the guy who owned the septic tank business, his helper that day, dave mcmannis, and their buddy peewee st. john, but nothing in this huge trove of investigative material proved anything. kurt, we call him the scribe. he organized it in in such a way that it was easier to understand. what had been difficult to understand? it was confusing to the point where you didn t know what we were gonna be able to get into court. the context was in there. you couldn t figure it out because it was a mess. the majority of it was in there, yes. we had to try to do the analysis on it, and that s what took so long. an awful lot of detective work amounts to reading. thousands of pages of reports and witness statements, and this and that, all were followed up, everyone of them. detective mehl chased down a 2001 walmart receipt, a minor, forgettable purchase, except that ....