Newcomers. See msg 312
https://www.metabunk.org/posts/35801
and this.
Was it a gut feeling or indigestion?
If the sheriffs do have evidence that they are not reporting, what could their motive be for doing that?
1. Because it's exculpatory to Phillip Marshal.
2. Anything else? Hands? Anyone? (They certainly aren't concealing it so that only the bad guy(s) will know it and tip their hand if interviewed, because the sheriffs already know whodunnit. Or so we are led to believe.)
Marshall has been their one and only suspect whom they decided was the villain before their investigation was done, as reported in their very first media release dated the same day the bodies were found at 3:10 on Saturday afternoon. Two hours before 5 pm. What time was the report thus finalized and posted?
The pdf file itself was last edited at this time.
Created: 2/3/2013 10:22:57 AM
Here's what it said.
Contact: Sgt Chris Hewitt Main: 209-754-6683 / Cell: 209-728-4909
Release Date: 02/02/13
Release Number: 1 Man Shoots Children, then Himself in a Murder-Suicide
(Murphys, CA) A Murphys man identified as Phillip Marshall (54) took the life of his two juvenile children before taking his own life in an apparent murder-suicide. On February 2, 2013 at 3:10 pm Calaveras Sheriff’s deputies were called to a residence on the 1200 block of Sandalwood Drive in the Forest Meadows subdivision, Murphys, for a suspicious circumstance/welfare check. The reporting parties, who are friends of the two victims, told investigators that they had not heard from the victims since Thursday, January 31, 2013. On February 2nd they went to the Marshall’s family residence looking for the victims. While at the front door of the house they were able to see inside and saw Phillip Marshall lying on the floor in a pool of blood. They called the sheriff’s office to report what they saw.
Upon arrival of the initial responding deputies they observed the man described by the reporting parties. The deputies entered the home and found the two deceased victims lying on a couch with apparent gunshot wounds. They also discovered the family dog deceased in a bedroom. The two victims were identified as 17 year old Alex Marshall and 14 year old Macaila Marshall. A preliminary examination of the deceased showed that all three suffered from single gunshot wounds to the head, the weapon being a handgun. The dog had also been shot. A post-mortem examination will be conducted at a later date to determine the actual cause of death of the victims and of Phillip Marshall.
The mother of the two victims and estranged wife of Phillip Marshall, Sean Marshall, was out of the country at the time of the incident. She was located and notified of the deaths.
Both victims were students at Bret Harte High School in Angels Camp. Additional details in the investigation will be provided as they develop. The reason for the murder-suicide is unknown at this time.
Note the "release date" is not the same as the file creation date.
Note: A post-mortem examination will be conducted at a later date to determine the actual cause of death of the victims and of Phillip Marshall.
The sheriffs were quite cautious about the cause of death, as you can see. It might have seemed obvious to someone less cautious and thorough that the cause of death was the gunshots to the head.
How incredibly obvious it must have been, then, that Marshall was the shooter in light of such careful investigation work.
6 weeks of the delay between the start and latest update of the investigation was caused by a backlog in Sacremento, we were told. The additional two weeks delay was apparently spent debunking "conspiracy theories", decibel tests, and so forth.
But now the finger print results are in, according to the sheriffs latest report and they are inconclusive.
With two additional weeks and 8 weeks later (6 weeks longer than usual for a ballistics and gun shot residue (GSR) tests) there is no suggestion that the GSR tests were even done.
But what if the standard GSR test was done as "the literature" suggests is standard, even for a obvious suicide. (
http://xa.yimg.com/kq/groups/25011942/1660865779/name/BLOOD+SPATTER+PATTERNS.pdf find "literature" near the bottom.)
This is the problem with this game of keep-away the sheriffs are playing with the evidence. Only they know what they have. Only they know the results of the GSR test.
And if they aren't releasing that GSR test data, there can only be one reason for that that I can think of.
It's because Phillip Marshall never fired a gun. ANY gun that night.
Has anyone seen the video of Marshall buying the bullets? It's not so unusual to share those things with the media. It's done all the time, in fact. it's unfortunately reasonable to wonder: IS THERE EVEN A VIDEO.
The sheriffs say they found a receipt for the exceedingly rare bullets in his car. Why don't they show a photocopy of that receipt? If Marshall bought any bullets at all, it would have been between the time he said he had no bullets and the date on the receipt.
Find 'tarquin' here (feb 5, 2013).
http://www.calaverasenterprise.com/news/article_71f9b8da-6e27-11e2-99e8-001a4bcf887a.html
Phil was NOT depressed. He did NOT take his life. He did NOT murder his kids. Only a few days ago he said that "I have a gun, but it would be useless if I needed it because I got no bullets for it", (then he laughed!). I knew Phil, and he had everything to live for and he doted over his two beautiful kids.
So between "a few days ago" as of Feb 5 and the still indeterminate and/or bifurcated times (almost certainly Thursday night) we discover that on January 27,2013, two days before they all died, Phillip Marshall purchased a distinctive type of Fiocchi brand 9 millimeter handgun ammunition from Big 5 Sporting Goods store in Sonora.
Who has seen that video? And perhaps more importantly, how "distinctive" was the ammunition?
Does it sound like Phillip Marshall who had bought the gun a year before he got the ammo was a great appreciator of "distinctive" ammunition?
From the sheriffs' report:
In October 20 11Marshall purchased the Glock 9mm handgun from a gun store in Turlock, CA. The gun was registered to him.
So we are to believe that for a year he hangs onto the gun but has no bullets. And when he runs out to a store in Sonora, he gets some "distinctive" ammo that will help identify him as the shooter in case the ballistics tests are inconclusive.
How distinctive?
From the sheriffs' report:
On a Saturday, beginning at approximately 9:30 AM Detectives conducted a decibel meter sound experiment at the Marshall house. In advance of the experiment, due to the extremely low availability of the type of ammunition that Marshal had purchased, the Fiocchi Ammunition Company, for the purpose of this experiment, donated a box of the exact same type of ammunition that Marshall had purchased at Big 5 Sporting Goods (92 grain EMB-Expansion Mono-Block). The detectives were also able to locate a second box through the Big 5 Sporting Goods corporate office.
Extremely low availability? Ladies and gentlemen there was only one other box at any Big 5 store in the entire United States after Phillip Marshall's purchase.
And which Saturday morning did they do the testing on? And why on a Saturday. The sheriffs apparently know it was a Thursday that the kids died on. (The "official" and absurd "time of death" was to listed as Saturday at 3 pm according to an article at
http://uniondemocrat.com. Is that why they tested on a Saturday?)
http://www.calaverasenterprise.com/news/article_71f9b8da-6e27-11e2-99e8-001a4bcf887a.html find "Thursday".
http://www.uniondemocrat.com/News/Local-News/More-murder-suicide-details
find "Saturday"
To figure out which Saturday they tested on (could have been Spring by then) do we need to find out when the SHERIFFS purchased an identical gun to test with?
And why in the morning? Didn't they all die at night, in JANUARY, when it's cold and nobody is out there mowing their lawns to interfere with the perception of noise?
Ladies and gentlemen of the media jury, WHY don't they show the evidence? Why do they selectively exclude any mention of evidence they DO have? Why do they twist what they apparently do have into an unbelievable fable about Phillip Marshall having a bipolar disorder?
There can be only one reason.
To protect themselves.
And what do liars fear the most? The truth.