CROSS EXAMINATION CONTINUED
Mary Dye's Cross-Examination By Bill Kiger
Q: What other police agencies have you called?
A: The sheriff's department.
Q: How many times?
A: I don't know.
Q: Is that Wood County or Washington County?
A: ** **Washington County. {BMW: She lives in Wood County, West Virginia ... a county with 3 or 4 "unsolved" murder cases of its own, I might add.}
Q: Did you make any calls over to Wood County?
A: I think maybe one.
Q: Now, you say you are not a psychic?
A: No, I am not.
Q: You don't claim to be?
A: I don't claim to be one.
Q: Do other people tell you that you are?
A: No, sir, they do not.
Q: Does your mother think you are?
A: Sir, I don't know what she thinks.
Q: I would have to ask her? {BMW: Impossible since the woman didn't have to testify to anything.}
A: That's right.
Q: Okay. Now, between -- let me make sure I got this straight. The first time you actually ever told anybody about this was October 3? I don't want you to be mixed up here. Let's put it another way. Jenifer McCrady's body was found the afternoon of October 1, to help you. Now, when was it you first went and told anybody what you have told us here today?
A: I think it was September 30.
Q: September 30 is when you went and talked to --
A: Mr. Garvey.
Q: Okay, I am sorry. ** You were interviewed by the police officer on October 3?
A: I don't remember the date.
Q: When you went and talked to Detective Garvey on the 30th, how many times up until then had you read a story about Jenifer McCrady's disappearance?
A: I don't know. I don't know how many times it was in the paper.
Q: How many times was Mr. McCrady's picture in the paper prior to that time?
A: I don't recall seeing his picture in the paper.
Q: How many times has it been in the paper since then?
A: A lot.
Q: Were you ever shown what is called a ** photo line up?
A: No.
Q: The police never said here is five or six pictures, pick one?
A: No, they did not.
Q: The first time you actually publicly made this identification is here in this courtroom today?
A: Yes.
Q: And you have had about nine and a half, ten months now to prepare to do that?
A: I suppose.
Q: Have you ever met Mr. McCrady before?
A: No, sir, I have not.
Q: I noticed you referred to -- you said, that's him right there, Mr. McCrady. Why did you call him Mr. McCrady?
A: Because, sir, he is a man, right?
Q: Why didn't you say it is that guy right there? Why are you so familiar with him you would use his name?
A: Well, his name is Mr. McCrady, right?
Q: That's been in the newspaper too, right?
A: Well, sure it has.
Q: Right under his picture?
A: I don't know.
Q: That's usually where they put the person's name?
A: If they have a name under the picture, yes.
Q: Now, your trip back to the oil access road with the other gentleman here was when?
A: I believe it was in March.
Q: What did you do that day?
A: I --
Q: What did you do out there?
A: I showed them where I had seen the car.
Q: How many other times have you talked to Detective Garvey or Mr. Schneider or Mr. Rings about this case?
A: I don't know.
Q: Half a dozen?
A: I don't think so.
Q: Four?
A: Maybe.
Q: How many times have -- including those four times, how many times have you sat down and discussed what your testimony would be here today?
A: We haven't went over that. {BMW: This is absurd. No prosecuting attorney brings a witness, especially a star witness into the court room without previously going over the person's testimony with the person. No one would do such a thing, and anyone who has ever testified in any kind of court case knows it.}
Q: So they didn't know what you were going to say when you walked in?
A: No.
Q: Did you say you had given some sort of written statement?
A: ** To Mr. Meek, at the Belpre Police Department. {BMW: Meek is a Marietta cop ..... employed by the city of Marietta, not the county sheriff's department. Wonder why he was in Belpre taking witness statements on a county case? Strange.}
Q: Is that something he wrote and you signed?
A: No.
Q: Or you wrote and gave it to him?
A: No.
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