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Latest on Missing Baylor University Basketball Player
Aired July 02, 2003 - 05:34 ET
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CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Now for the latest on that missing Baylor University basketball player. Police say the search of an area where an informant says Patrick Dennehy was shot and killed has not turned up a body.
CNN's Ed Lavandera tells us some of the clues police are looking at.
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ED LAVANDERA, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): A source tells CNN the week before Patrick Dennehy disappeared, he was told that his two dogs could no longer be kept in his apartment. On June 13th, a day after Dennehy was last seen, a CNN source says he checked Dennehy's apartment to see if the dogs were still inside. Dennehy wasn't there, but Carlton Dotson was sitting on the couch. A search warrant issued to Waco police says the condition of Dennehy's apartment looked like he had not intended on staying gone for an extended period of time.
On Tuesday, Waco police would not elaborate on the search warrant, and only say the information came from a credible source.
STEVE ANDERSON, WACO POLICE SPOKESMAN: Again, an affidavit is a court document. It wasn't intended to be a press release. The investigation still continues. We still have information coming in.
LAVANDERA: The search warrant says an informant told police he had heard that Carlton Dotson shot Dennehy in the head with a .9 millimeter handgun after getting into an altercation. The informant told police Dennehy pointed a gun at Dotson first.
Police are treating this as a homicide investigation, but Dotson has not been named a suspect and he has not been charged with any crime. Waco police talked to Carlton Dotson last week near his hometown in Hurlich, Maryland, and Waco police now say they should not have implicated Baylor players as potential suspects so early in the investigation.
ANDERSON: As far as using the word suspects, that probably was not an appropriate term to use on our part Friday on that release. Again, these were individuals that from the beginning we were trying to talk to in order to locate Mr. Dennehy.
LAVANDERA: Police say they've searched a 50 acre area north of Waco for Dennehy's body, but so far they haven't been able to find Dennehy, dead or alive. The search warrant affidavit filed June 23rd says Dennehy's girlfriend recently told police that someone named Harvey had made threats against Dennehy. But police won't say who Harvey is. But authorities believe Dennehy might have e-mailed that information to some friends, and that's why they needed a search warrant to analyze his computer.
Ed Lavandera, CNN, Waco, Texas.
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Aired July 2, 2003 - 05:34 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Now for the latest on that missing Baylor University basketball player. Police say the search of an area where an informant says Patrick Dennehy was shot and killed has not turned up a body.
CNN's Ed Lavandera tells us some of the clues police are looking at.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
ED LAVANDERA, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): A source tells CNN the week before Patrick Dennehy disappeared, he was told that his two dogs could no longer be kept in his apartment. On June 13th, a day after Dennehy was last seen, a CNN source says he checked Dennehy's apartment to see if the dogs were still inside. Dennehy wasn't there, but Carlton Dotson was sitting on the couch. A search warrant issued to Waco police says the condition of Dennehy's apartment looked like he had not intended on staying gone for an extended period of time.
On Tuesday, Waco police would not elaborate on the search warrant, and only say the information came from a credible source.
STEVE ANDERSON, WACO POLICE SPOKESMAN: Again, an affidavit is a court document. It wasn't intended to be a press release. The investigation still continues. We still have information coming in.
LAVANDERA: The search warrant says an informant told police he had heard that Carlton Dotson shot Dennehy in the head with a .9 millimeter handgun after getting into an altercation. The informant told police Dennehy pointed a gun at Dotson first.
Police are treating this as a homicide investigation, but Dotson has not been named a suspect and he has not been charged with any crime. Waco police talked to Carlton Dotson last week near his hometown in Hurlich, Maryland, and Waco police now say they should not have implicated Baylor players as potential suspects so early in the investigation.
ANDERSON: As far as using the word suspects, that probably was not an appropriate term to use on our part Friday on that release. Again, these were individuals that from the beginning we were trying to talk to in order to locate Mr. Dennehy.
LAVANDERA: Police say they've searched a 50 acre area north of Waco for Dennehy's body, but so far they haven't been able to find Dennehy, dead or alive. The search warrant affidavit filed June 23rd says Dennehy's girlfriend recently told police that someone named Harvey had made threats against Dennehy. But police won't say who Harvey is. But authorities believe Dennehy might have e-mailed that information to some friends, and that's why they needed a search warrant to analyze his computer.
Ed Lavandera, CNN, Waco, Texas.
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