The next day (October 23rd) a Task Force member traveled to Alabama and obtained the fingerprint evidence which was brought back to Maryland and run through the FBI national data base.It was the following day that Chief Wilson shot down the credit card story.
Plan "C"" now claims that the tip about the liquor store murder in Montgomery, Alabama was received in a previously undisclosed telephone contact with a person the Task Force believes to have been the shooter. Of course there is no one but the caller and the Task Force who can contradict that scenario if indeed such a contact was made.
Montgomery police forwarded the print to the Alabama State Police forensic lab on Sept. 24th, three days after the murder at the liquor store. However, because of short staffing and a backlog, the print was not processed into the FBI data bank for 27 days.
In its Sunday edition October 27, the New York Times (perhaps in retaliation for its embarrassment from previous "tips") claimed the name of John Muhammad and a description of the Caprice he was driving was being given to some police agencies in the D.C. area as early as Tuesday evening, October 22nd, the same day as the last killing of the bus driver.
Plan "C"" now claims that the tip about the liquor store murder in Montgomery, Alabama was received in a previously undisclosed telephone contact with a person the Task Force believes to have been the shooter. Of course there is no one but the caller and the Task Force who can contradict that scenario if indeed such a contact was made.
Montgomery police forwarded the print to the Alabama State Police forensic lab on Sept. 24th, three days after the murder at the liquor store. However, because of short staffing and a backlog, the print was not processed into the FBI data bank for 27 days.
In its Sunday edition October 27, the New York Times (perhaps in retaliation for its embarrassment from previous "tips") claimed the name of John Muhammad and a description of the Caprice he was driving was being given to some police agencies in the D.C. area as early as Tuesday evening, October 22nd, the same day as the last killing of the bus driver.