Reply #120: Yes, it happens all the time - [View All]

[Tangerine LaBamba]

that's why people are questioned by more than one person - to get a more complete answer. Sometimes it's a matter of who's doing the questioning, sometimes it's allowing the person to have some time in order to calm down, sometimes the caller sees something else after the call is made.

My bet - and I may be wrong - is that the caller made the 911 call in haste, anxious to get the police there as quickly as possible, since she knew there had been a string of break-ins in the neighborhood - where she worked for the past fifteen years. Then, in the time between the conclusion of the call and the arrival of the police, she got a better look at the men at the house.

This is common, and why it's routine for different officers to interview witnesses to a single incident. To get as complete a representation as possible.

Nothing is written in rock until the matter is concluded...........................