Archive for August, 2007
Friday, August 31st, 2007
Phillip's alleged suicide note and comparing it with his usual/normal handwriting and signature (click on images to view their larger versions).
In the comparison chart (below) done by Col. Pedro Elvas, he noted at least 16 differences noticeable against the signature of the alleged notes and Phillip's standards.
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Friday, August 31st, 2007
"BULLET FIRED THROUGH A PILLOW AND HIT THE BOTTOM PLATE OF A STEEL DRUM." NOTICE THE SLIGHT DEFORMITY OR THE SHAPE OF THE SLUG AS IT SNUGGLY FIT ON THE DRUM BOTTOM STEEL PLATE.
THIS WOULD SHOW THE POSSIBLE CAUSE OF THE BULLET HOLE FOUND IN ENS. PESTANO'S ROOM AND THE ...
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Friday, August 31st, 2007
Dr. Lebaquin and Dr. Lagonera testified in the Senate hearing that the shape of the entry wound was oval. This finding of both medico-legal experts was very significant. First, the direction of the bullet path from the muzzle of the gun to the entry wound was not directly perpendicular with ...
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Friday, August 31st, 2007
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The experiment used a live hog fixed and secured at about a distance of 6 ft. to the target made of galvanized sheet 1/8" thick and covered with a plastic wall vinyl paper (to resemble to as close as possible to Phillip's wall in the cabin).
Upon firing (at the pig's ...
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Friday, August 31st, 2007
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These are some of the results of an experiment on bullets slugs fired into a pig's head and into a steel drum sheet (1/8" thickness). The steel was covered with plastic vinyl wallpaper that approximated the wall in Phillip's cabin.
As one could see in the picture, the bullet slug that ...
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Friday, August 31st, 2007
(Shooter firing a .45 Cal. Pistol on the pig's head)
There was a steel drum bottom covered with plastic vinyl wallpaper to approximate ship's wall material about six (6) feet away from the target.
The walls and floors were covered with Manila paper to establish the spatter after the shooter fired the ...
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Friday, August 31st, 2007
Both forward propelled blood/tissue spatter and blow back blood/tissue spatter would occur with such a wound. Therefore one should reasonably expect to find deposits of such blood and tissue spatters on both the right and left shoulders and possibly chest area of Phillips white T-shirt. Unless Phillip's white T-shirt (death ...
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Friday, August 31st, 2007
The recoil of a gun was a subject of the test and conducted by forensic experts.
Left photo showed a gun about to be fired by a ballistician using his thumb squeezing the trigger. The ballistician had extreme difficulty holding the firearm, and in squeezing the trigger.
Right photo shows after the ...
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Friday, August 31st, 2007
Shown in the picture is the alleged death gun. The photograph of this gun was taken at the WPD ballistic department where it was originally kept, about a week after Phillip's death.
Surprisingly, one Navy officer who executed an affidavit revealed that the original gun he saw physically was not installed ...
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Friday, August 31st, 2007
1st Officer: Senate testimony
"I saw a pistol between Phillip's foot, the bullets could be seen through the space in the magazine and I counted four (4) live ammos (a full loaded magazine should contain 7 bullets) looking further, I saw a live ammo on the deck beside same shoes.. I ...
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