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Deputy Admits to Columbine Tape [Admits its Him on Tape Saying Saw Student Shot,Yet Denies Its True!
Rocky Mountain News ^ | January 8, 2002 | Kevin Vaughan

Posted on 01/09/2002 12:14:37 PM PST by t-shirt

Deputy admits to Columbine tape

January 8, 2002

Sheriff says written statement on shooting of Rohrbough was true but that recording isn't

By Kevin Vaughan, News Staff Writer

A sheriff's deputy has acknowledged that it is his voice on controversial tape recordings in which he claimed to have seen a student shot at Columbine High School on April 20, 1999.

Arapahoe County Sheriff Pat Sullivan said he has heard the eight short sections of the tape that were played last week for reporters after Deputy Jim Taylor issued a written statement denying that he'd seen any of the victims wounded in the school tragedy.

"It is Taylor's voice, and he has admitted that it is him on those pieces," Sullivan said Monday.

Sullivan was asked how the tape recording matched Taylor's written statement, which was given Dec. 31.

"It doesn't," Sullivan said.

? However, Sullivan said he believes Taylor was telling the truth when he denied seeing anyone get shot.

The Dec. 31 statement "is solid," Sullivan said.

"It is the truth," he said. "What's on the tape isn't."

If Taylor did see Rohrbough get shot, it would call into question the official timeline of events issued by the Jefferson County sheriff's department, which has determined that Rohrbough was killed by Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris in the first minutes of the rampage, before any law enforcement officers arrived.

Taylor, who has been with the department since 1988, remained on administrative leave Monday. He did not return a message left at his home.

The controversy came in the wake of a Dec. 26 court filing in which the family of Daniel Rohrbough named a Denver police officer as the alleged killer of the boy. In that court filing, the Rohrbough family cited as evidence statements made by Taylor to the boy's mother and stepfather, Sue and Rich Petrone.

They alleged that Taylor had told them he had seen Rohrbough get shot outside the school just after arriving.

Five days later, Sullivan's office issued a press release, claiming that Taylor was never in a position to see anyone get shot at the school. It also claimed that "Deputy Taylor states that he has not said anything to the Rohrbough family that could lead them to believe he witnessed any shots being fired at Columbine."

Then came the release of sections of the tape.

In them, Taylor talked about seeing a boy get shot in the chaos at the school. He told the Petrones that "it was Dan, and I didn't know that until I seen the photo the next morning in the newspaper that it was the boy that I seen."

That same day, Sullivan's office released Taylor's written Dec. 31 statement.

Sullivan said he could not discuss the conflict between the two statements because it is under investigation.

In the meantime, Sullivan and members of Rohrbough's family have agreed to meet Friday.

Sullivan has asked that he be allowed to hear the entire tape-recorded discussion involving the Petrones and Taylor and his wife.

But the boy's father, Brian Rohrbough, said, "I'm not going to release the full tape at this time."

Contact Kevin Vaughan at (303) 892-5019 or vaughank@RockyMountainNews.com.


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Please contact Kevin Vaughan at (303) 892-5019 or email him and let him know you appreciate his and his fellow reporters' (at the Rocky Mountain News) excellent reporting, exposing government lies and coverup and investigating for the truth in this case.

We need more good honest no holds barred journalism in America as exhibited by the Rocky Mountain News and affiliated newspapers.

But why all the continued lies by the government?

Because, for one major reason atleast, without the continued lies the government would have to admit that atleast some of the students were murdered after the government claims the shooters were dead and would have to answer who shot them then?

1 posted on 01/09/2002 12:14:38 PM PST by t-shirt
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See this thread below to see more of the lies told by the SWAT Team/Sheriff's Department/Government exposed and well documented by the Rocky Mountain News:

Investigating the 'Lies' (29 Major Lies By Govt' In Columbine MassMurder Coverup)(Denver Newspaper)

Investigating the 'Lies' (29 Major Lies By Govt' In Columbine MassMurder Coverup)(Denver Newspaper)

2 posted on 01/09/2002 12:20:39 PM PST by t-shirt
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CO)RRECTED....

See this thread below to see more of the lies told by the SWAT Team/Sheriff's Department/Government exposed and well documented by the Rocky Mountain News:

Investigating the 'Lies' (29 Major Lies By Govt' In Columbine MassMurder Coverup)(Denver Newspaper)

Investigating the 'Lies' (29 Major Lies By Govt' In Columbine MassMurder Coverup)(Denver Newspaper)

3 posted on 01/09/2002 12:22:00 PM PST by t-shirt
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To: t-shirt
Reminds me of when Josh Steinberg lied to his diary. Remember that?
4 posted on 01/09/2002 12:26:35 PM PST by Rodney King
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To: ASTM366; TigersEye;Scarlet Pimpernel;B4Ranch;Space Wrangler; monkeywrench;Alamo-Girl...
truth and justice bump
5 posted on 01/09/2002 12:38:14 PM PST by t-shirt
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To: Rodney King
Yes, Wasn't that part of the Clinton email coverup?
6 posted on 01/09/2002 12:39:39 PM PST by t-shirt
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To: Rodney King
That's what Nixon shoulda said -- I lied to the tape!
7 posted on 01/09/2002 12:39:50 PM PST by js1138
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To: t-shirt
Yeah, thats it.
8 posted on 01/09/2002 12:40:34 PM PST by Rodney King
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To: t-shirt
I heard this AM on one of the local Denver news stations that this officer is finished (he will be fired or forced to resign) because of lying.
9 posted on 01/09/2002 12:42:08 PM PST by freedomcrusader
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To: t-shirt; Wallaby
fyi
10 posted on 01/09/2002 12:45:07 PM PST by thinden
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To: exit82;PatrioticAmerican;Freedom'sWorthIt;Twodees;Ozarkie;Native American Female Vet;Jackie222...
truth and justice bump
11 posted on 01/09/2002 12:47:18 PM PST by t-shirt
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To: exit82;PatrioticAmerican;Freedom'sWorthIt;Twodees;Ozarkie;Native American Female Vet;Jackie222...
truth and justice bump
12 posted on 01/09/2002 12:47:26 PM PST by t-shirt
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To: t-shirt
Bttt!
13 posted on 01/09/2002 12:50:54 PM PST by monkeywrench
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To: t-shirt
The cowards on the Columbine Police force have been lying from day one. The whole department is a disgrace to the profession.
14 posted on 01/09/2002 12:52:00 PM PST by beckett
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To: t-shirt
Yes, I saw is brains come out of his skull, but it wasn't me. The aliens had landed a used their proton plasma guns...that's it!
17 posted on 01/09/2002 1:06:27 PM PST by Rain-maker
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This is not to disparage the real officers of the law who go out every day, well trained, even tempered, arresting the violent and keeping the peace

Well at least you added that caveat. The Rocky Mountain News(in which t-shirt wants us to lavish praise) does not have that in mind, IMHO. T-shirt and the Rocky Mountain News want to smear all cops.

18 posted on 01/09/2002 1:13:33 PM PST by Dane
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bump
19 posted on 01/09/2002 1:18:35 PM PST by t-shirt
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To: t-shirt
Thanks for the heads up!
20 posted on 01/09/2002 1:28:41 PM PST by Alamo-Girl
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