Post by kemo on May 15, 2018 16:37:59 GMT
Investigators found the receipt book of a convicted attempted rapist at the scene of a vicious rape murder. That is obviously going to set the course of the investigation. Nobody is thinking “frame up”, they are going think “stupid criminal”.
There were two “pretty good” witnesses who saw the prime suspect sexually harassing young girls just before the probable time of the abduction. However, there were at least two “pretty good” witnesses who saw the prime suspect at a job site in Visalia at the same time. Clifton couldn’t have been at the two places at the same time but we all know witnesses can be wrong about a lot of things. The Jury had to sort it all out and make a call. I doubt anyone is alive today who attended that trial; heard the testimony. Did they get it right? It is hard to sort it all out fifty years late.
A year or so earlier, there was a very similar case that Tulare County Sheriffs Dept. also handled that remained unsolved. They must have reopened it and taken a real hard look at Clifton for the Armour case. This would be obvious and failure to do so would seem to be beyond simple incompetence.
Clifton was living in Las Vegas at the time but he had family in the Visalia area, he could have been visiting on Friday 11/15/74. Someone in TCSD must have attempted to place Clifton in Visalia on that date. They could have contacted his employer in Vegas, his family in Tulare County as well as any number of other possible sources.
Obviously, if he was in Vegas, the lead would be closed out and that would have been the end of it, but that should have been documented in the Murder Book, as all suspect rule outs are.
If he could not be placed in Vegas, he must have been pursued as a serious suspect. He friends, family, known associations all should have been interviewed. That all should be part of the record and, as an unsolved murder, it all should still be available. If it isn’t, something is really wrong.
The unofficial word coming out of Tulare County is that Deangelo is good for Snelling but there isn’t enough evidence to take to court and Clifton, not Deangelo killed both Richmond and Armour so we are not involved in anything going on now. Could be.
Somehow, I can’t let go of these cases. Knowing what we know now, the possibility of a frame up with the receipt book isn’t so entirely outlandish as it might have seemed. If Clifton was never ruled out for Armour, Tulare County should open its books and show the world what they have. This would put the whole issue to rest and everyone could focus on the real crimes of Deangelo.
If Clifton was ruled out, perhaps because he was verified to have been in Vegas, then I think the whole question of the Richmond murder has to be reopened. It is too late for Clifton but it is never too late for justice.
There were two “pretty good” witnesses who saw the prime suspect sexually harassing young girls just before the probable time of the abduction. However, there were at least two “pretty good” witnesses who saw the prime suspect at a job site in Visalia at the same time. Clifton couldn’t have been at the two places at the same time but we all know witnesses can be wrong about a lot of things. The Jury had to sort it all out and make a call. I doubt anyone is alive today who attended that trial; heard the testimony. Did they get it right? It is hard to sort it all out fifty years late.
A year or so earlier, there was a very similar case that Tulare County Sheriffs Dept. also handled that remained unsolved. They must have reopened it and taken a real hard look at Clifton for the Armour case. This would be obvious and failure to do so would seem to be beyond simple incompetence.
Clifton was living in Las Vegas at the time but he had family in the Visalia area, he could have been visiting on Friday 11/15/74. Someone in TCSD must have attempted to place Clifton in Visalia on that date. They could have contacted his employer in Vegas, his family in Tulare County as well as any number of other possible sources.
Obviously, if he was in Vegas, the lead would be closed out and that would have been the end of it, but that should have been documented in the Murder Book, as all suspect rule outs are.
If he could not be placed in Vegas, he must have been pursued as a serious suspect. He friends, family, known associations all should have been interviewed. That all should be part of the record and, as an unsolved murder, it all should still be available. If it isn’t, something is really wrong.
The unofficial word coming out of Tulare County is that Deangelo is good for Snelling but there isn’t enough evidence to take to court and Clifton, not Deangelo killed both Richmond and Armour so we are not involved in anything going on now. Could be.
Somehow, I can’t let go of these cases. Knowing what we know now, the possibility of a frame up with the receipt book isn’t so entirely outlandish as it might have seemed. If Clifton was never ruled out for Armour, Tulare County should open its books and show the world what they have. This would put the whole issue to rest and everyone could focus on the real crimes of Deangelo.
If Clifton was ruled out, perhaps because he was verified to have been in Vegas, then I think the whole question of the Richmond murder has to be reopened. It is too late for Clifton but it is never too late for justice.
