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Deadly Diocese

7: The Hand & The Gun

Deadly Diocese

Deadly Diocese

True Crime, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Religion, Documentary

3.9622 Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

No fingerprinting, No ballistics and no explanation as to why a gun that was turned into a Buffalo Police officer 14 years prior - was found at the crime scene. And despite the fact that no one can seem to agree on the placement of the gun upon arrival at the rectory there are other clues contained within the body and the Smith & Wesson short barrel .38 that will allow us to determine a framework of real possibilities. 

Transcript

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0:00.0

Well, I'm looking at the hole, and your husband would probably agree, that usually if you put a gun to your head, I forgot what they call it, but it has a burn mark, like a round circle around the entrance.

0:19.0

I want to be a stiffling or something like that.

0:23.1

Yeah.

0:23.4

And I don't see, I can see a gaping hole.

0:27.2

So if you're going to shoot yourself, you're going to put the gun close to your head.

0:31.3

So you're going to have a burn mark from the gunpowder that goes around the entrance

0:36.2

wound.

0:36.5

And I don't see that.

0:37.3

I see red trauma as if it might

0:42.4

have happened from further than a couple inches. That was a retired police officer and friend of Father Joe.

1:06.0

He is a good man.

1:08.0

I believe that.

1:10.0

Time went by after Father Joe's death, and Sue and Joe's

1:13.6

senior didn't hear much from him.

1:16.6

What they don't understand is my lieutenant called it correctly. He said, meaning about the job.

1:25.6

He said, this is the front row seat the life he said 99% of the people will

1:32.0

never see the stuff we see and that is so true and it's so true and it affects you mentally it

1:41.0

affects you physically it affects your marriage, it affects your relationships.

1:47.0

It really could damage you as a person.

1:50.8

He had his own problems he had to deal with, but he sure as hell showed honest loyalty and true

1:58.7

colors for Father Joe and his family when I spoke to him.

2:03.5

Well, if I even pleased to paramed with sadness, because nobody would have expected that.

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