On April 6th, days before the Norris murders, a .45 caliber handgun was stolen from a car in the Déjà Vu parking lot.
According to DA Schuyler Marvin, investigators have been unable to establish any connection between Needham and Clark.
It appears that Clark is the new suspect in the case. Look for the charges against Needham to be dropped.
KTBS has the full story.
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ReplyDeletegosh, good thing the criminal justice system isn't run by the type of folks who commented on your initial post about needham, published just after the crime. if they ran the world, needham, his family, and his friends would already be dead.
ReplyDeletehere it is, check it out:
http://mybossier.blogspot.com/2011/04/sit-down-and-shut-up.html
i'm being a smart ass. but all of us really ought to remember this situation the next time we want to cry "hang 'em high" before there's even a trial.
I still believe there is a connection.
ReplyDeleteWheeler, I was sort of mouthy in that one myself.
ReplyDeleteGood civics lesson for everyone. Emotion can't substitute for hard facts.
I would like to congratulate Chief McWilliams and the police administration on yet another example of superb leadership. Chief McWilliams lies to the public about the description of the offender, and now we find out they arrested the wrong person for the triple homicide. Good job! The entire department is in shambles, worse than it has ever been, and the men and women of the police department are suffering the consequences. Now, they are blotching homicide investigations, and the public has lost confidence in the police department. It’s sad that three people were murdered and because of horrific police work, the killer will go free. The Bossier Police have always been thought of as the premier police department, but since Chief McWilliams and his so called administration have taken over, the department has become one which is plagued with internal and external problems. All of which are a direct result of very poor leadership.
ReplyDeleteMayor Walker, since it appears you can’t control your police administration, we will have to vote you out of office! Lo, I have always supported you but no longer! Replace McWilliams and his so called chiefs or be voted out. Enough is enough.
You tell him Mike
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ReplyDeleteWhat you said!
How is this Chief McWilliams' fault?
ReplyDeleteThe officers are trying to tell people how bad it is. Listen to them.
ReplyDeleteMike McConnell could solve these homicides if they would just ask him. He said he is more trained than all the Bossier Deputies put together. He is the reason why the City of Shreveport has such a low crime rate. Don't worry, McConnell will help Bossier Parish become more like Shreveport if he is elected.
ReplyDeleteHow is this Chief McWilliams' fault? First he went along with the deception. No, wait, I forgot, he's not in control. He's been told to be seen and not herd.
ReplyDeleteSorry, You're right, he's not at fault. But since he's a puppet and was involved in the lie that was told to the public, has his nose grown any.
If Needham is released and the charges dropped I hope Lo & Bossier City have some bucks stashed away because they'll be on the wrong end of a lawsuit!
ReplyDeleteand shouldnt there be a lawsuit??
DeleteEveryone go back and read the "Sit Down and Shut Up" Blog that Jim wrote. The Wyatt's were correct in defending Mr. Needham. They were correct, Mr. Needham didn't do the crime.
ReplyDeleteBut everyone was quick to chime in and talk sh*t. Shows how uneducated most of the people around here are. - the issue is not Needham - its how you people drink the coolaid that the police serve.
How bout less cops at the boardwalk and more cops working in the violent crimes division conducting through investigations.
Oh - and whose bright idea was it to get the US Marshalls from all over the country to come down here to apprehend a guy that the day after these murders was mowing his front yard. - which the cops were driving by at the time and could see.
waste of time, money, resources and now we will have to pay the legal fees for all this - he deserves to get paid for being slandered, jailed and indicted for something he didn't do.
Thanks God they did'nt kill this guy taking him down - they fired 3 shots at him. That would have been very expensive.
The hasty investgation and arrest of Copperhead was done for one reason: to make an inexperinced boob who was Jimmy Hall and his flying monkeys choice for chief of police to look good. Well, he now looks like a dumbass. Go back and look at everyone saying the best man was made chief.
ReplyDeleteWho would you have chosen for chief?
ReplyDeleteHamm? Shane is as qualified as anyone else.
Gotta subscribe! Just gotta.
ReplyDeleteMark Natale better get ready. He is about to get thrown to the wolves AGAIN.
ReplyDeleteAnon @ 12:45,
ReplyDeleteHamm has no dog in this hunt. He's not the chief. Since McWillie is the chief. All his defenders ask, "How is McWilliams responsible?" Like I said he's the chief, he's responsible. If he doesn't want the repsonibility here's a simple solution, march over to the mayor's office, and tell him Jimmy Hall needs a new puppet.
It is time to up the level of critic on the BCPD, the Walker Administration, and the cool-aid drinking citizenry. Many of the individual posters covicted Copperhead before any evidence. Sad, but true. An innocent man regardless of his prior history has been jailed and crucified in the media. Further, the public was misled on purpose! Similar to Cyber Command, BCPD employee layoffs, tax revenue for the LA Boardwalk, etc...(Sounds familiar)Time to stop drinking the cool-aid. Stand up and vote!
ReplyDeleteVoting out Wlaker and the city council is a small part of what needs to be done. Insuring that those who are voted into offices are not Masons and Shriners. The Masons and Shriners have a death hold on Bossier City and are bent on draining every last nickle they can from it. If a Mason or a Shriner is elected as the next mayor, the people of Bossier City would have elected another puppet for Jimmy Hall and his city hall Shriner clowns to play with.
ReplyDeleteThere are city council meetings every Tuesday at 3:00 pm. They are all there. Jimmy hall, the mayor, all of them. If more people showed up and raised a little hell then maybe they'll stop with this nonsense. I'm telling you they ate scared to be confronted. Especially Jimmy Hall.
ReplyDeleteJust like the Bossier Sheriff's Office, the City of Bossier needs to clean house. We need new government. As long as Jimmy Hall is involved he will continue to control the City of Bossier. You are so right about "The Masonic members and Shriners" taking control. If your not one your nobody. Aren't these a form of a cult. Government should be by the people for the people. Get these dead head, control freaks out of office. Shane McWilliams was chosen because he is a yes man to the mayor and Jimmy Hall. That is proven. Anybody with any integrity would have turned the job down knowing this.
ReplyDeletewell, it seems to me the BCPD have the killer based on the evidence. Although they did in fact make an error, it has been corrected. I think I would rather have a guy that was identified by two witnesses to a triple homicide arrested and held than not to have done anything and chance the guy killing some other innocent victims. I dont know jimmy hall or mcwilliams but i dont see the connection to this incident. its easy to armchair quarterback with 20/20 hindsight once more facts have surfaced, but again I would rather have needham who was identified by two witnesses, with a track record of violence, robbery, and murder investigations apprehended at least temporarily-makes sense to me. its not like the police planted evidence to prosecute some innocent man.
ReplyDeleteBCPD made an honest mistake. It's A's simple as that. It's not the first time an individual has been arrested who was innocent. Thankfully new evidence came about and the real murderer is now behind bars. I hope everyone now sees how difficult of a job the police have. This is why you qualified and intelligent people in these positions. This is why you have officers on this blog complaining about their pay. The lower the pay, the lower the quality of the officer. Remember this come election time. An underpaid, short-handed police department almost sent the wrong man to death row. I guess the consolation prize is we have the empty CIC building, parking garage, and 2 flex fuel gas stations.
ReplyDeleteJimmy Hall hand-picked Shane McWilliams. He wants a puppet, the officers want a leader. He can't be both.
Election time is coming but I'm not for sure we can wait that long.
P.S. Im waiting to see how Jimmy Hall's hand-picked fire chief handles himself when he is tested in a high profile situation. Remember he has just as much (or as little) experience as McWilliams. Puppets are not leaders.
Is it just me or does anyone else see the strong resemblance between these two guys. Put a jacket hood on them both where all you have is the face and stick them in a lineup in front of the witness' and I bet it would be hard to decide who they actually seen. BCPD did that but at the time they had the name of copperhead as a suspect. The witness' picked him out of a lineup. Soooo, when you have eyewitness' pick out a suspect that they seen commit a crime you arrest him.
ReplyDeleteAnon @ 9:26 said, "I dont know jimmy hall or mcwilliams but i dont see the connection to this incident."
ReplyDeleteAnon 9:26 where have you been? If you don't know Jimmy Hall it's probably because you don't go on his special "hunting trips" to Toledo Bend or are attached to his rear end with the rest of the Shriner cockroach department heads of Bossier City . Therefore, consider yourself lucky.
The connection here is the Bossier City Police Department LIED and misled the public about information concerning a triple homicide. As chief of police "Shame" McWilliams is, or should be, the one who authorized the misleading information to be sent out. However, since McWilliams is only a puppet and can only respond when the puppet master pulls the strings, the puppet master, who is Jimmy Hall, is the one responsible.
That is the connection.
I wonder if the real information had been given to the public, someone may have been able to connect the dots and saved the Bossier City possibly millions of dollars being given to a lowlife like Copperhead.
Don't forget, shortly after Needham was arrested, Schuyler Marvin and Patrick Jackson headed down to Baton Rouge to testify in opposition to Sen. Adley's bill which would allow more transparency and accountability on the DA's office.
ReplyDeleteSo instead of doing his job and building a case, Marvin was playing politics at the Capitol.
Hey it's matt sciba everyone. Chiming in from left field again.
ReplyDeleteDid anyone hear that murder charges will be dropped but they are going to get him in federal court now for having bullets at his house. Now you guys didn't think BCPD was just going to allow ole copperhead to just walk put the front door of the max did ya? I bet Wheeler is pissed. ole copperheads going to federal time now
ReplyDeleteAnon @ 10:16am, I have never seen either of these people, but judging from the pictures that have been published, they are obviously two distinctly different people and they don't look alike at all. For one thing Needham is ugly and Clark is handsome. There has been something weird about the police behavior from the time this crime happened. They said they had eyewitnesses but then kept changing the description of the perpetrator. And there was the strange situation of the BCPD, rather than the Judge barring the citizens from the courtroom. Who knows what to believe???
ReplyDeleteBoth eyewitnesses have recanted their testimony. And now the Feds are get him behind bullets found in a search warrant over a murder he didn't do? The local ATF is a joke. If the US Attorney is actually stupid enough to do this, they should all be indicted.
ReplyDeleteOn in Bossier (city and parish) would the police lie, and the leadership thinks they're doing the public a favor. Only in Bossier (city and parish) would the leadership continue thinking they did a great job and defend their screw up as a job well done. "But by God we're better than Shreveport!" Are you really better than Shreveport?
ReplyDeletePretty funny. And now the snakes on this blog bite each other.
ReplyDeleteI am not aware that eyewitnesses are allowed to lie to the police and then recant their testimony without facing charges. In the past it was illegal to file false reports with the police. But in Bossier City, the police are claiming that they can lie to the citizens with impunity, and that it is in fact a good thing to lie to citizens. The police and the DA have said that there was an eyewitness to the murder who knows Needham and he had said that "Copperhead" Needham did the murder. They also said that they had jailhouse witnesses who claimed Needham confessed to them, but if I were on a jury I would not convict on the word of such witnesses to jailhouse confession. In this case of the eyewitness who says he knows Needham and saw him do the murders, I don't know who is lying and what to believe. Somebody ought to require the BCPD to have a basic high school education including a little poetry by Sir Walter Scott. "Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive."
ReplyDelete9:33,
ReplyDeleteIt's funny you mention education. The city council and mayor havectaken away any incentive for officers to get more education or hire educated people. Your already seeing the results.
I just saw a commercial for a website for comparing travel costs. The man was asked why he didn't you Kayak, and he replied, "Because I'm a moron, that's how you get to the top." Damn, if that didn't describe how to become a chief or deputy chief in the Bossier City Police Department.
ReplyDeletegood lord having kept up withthis case by reading this blog. if some of these folks are seious about city hall officials, masons and shriners and everything connected to them there is your serious issues. these major crimes get solved and resolved but some of these bloggers need to be in capativity for a little while. i pray that theyarent police officers this disturbed.
ReplyDeleteThe people who are bitching the loudest about cops and masons do not know one thing about policing. They also have no idea what masons and shriners stand for and the things they support. These folks gripe about everything and when elections take place they vote for the same type of people who are in charge now. They can then bitch some more. Must be a sad life to be unhappy all the time.
ReplyDeleteWe do know what policing is all about, we just don't like what's happening to our department. We do know what the Masons and Shriners are all about, too.
ReplyDelete7:34,
ReplyDeleteWe know what the masons and Shriners are suppose to be about. Your missing the point. The guys who have screwed up the city just happen to be masons and Shriners. It seems you must be a part of this little inner circle if you want anything. I know this to be true because I know alot of guys who joined thinking it was going to get them somewhere. I don't want to demonize the work they do but the lodge in bossier is more of a political who's who and nothing more.
I like you we live sad life for bitching but that's the best you can say. No one has yet been able to defend the actions of these people. Jimmy hall especially.
an 734 i really do understand the problems you folks are tryng to work around with the specisl intrest etc. in another city once upon a time the same type problems existed andthe mayors would come courting every election,the pd union united all the employees and other city divisions and got friends relatives etc to block vote them out. did it solve the problem --nope. but we had some new faces in hoyue to jack with.
ReplyDeleteIt is troubling that it seems the police and DA only had eyewitness of a man leaving to base the case on. Was there no other forensic evidence? Hair? Blood? Fingerprints? Weapon? (oops)
ReplyDeleteWas the hearing unofficially closed because DA Marvin was prosecuting a case for which he had no evidence?
True why hasnt the right person been charged? Why these 3 families not vidicated? Shame on everybody from the D A down! Are you really safe in Bossier City???? That is really the question!
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