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Q: I am aware of that but don't hold back on me anything at all because this is a situation in which you have
to be completely honest with me. I don't want you to tell me just part of the story. I want the whole story. I
want the entire truth. You didn't do anything but leave the suitcase in the middle of the floor?
A: No.
Q: You didn't do anything to it at all?
A: No.
Q: Did anyone come there while you were there?
A: No.
Q: Was it armed at the time you left?
A: I set it down and it was setting straight up so I don't think it was armed.
Q: I want to go over it once again. As a practical matter, it doesn't make any difference what the truth is
concerning you at all...it doesn't hurt you one bit to tell me the rest if there is any more.
A: That's all there was.
Q: What I am getting at is, when you left the bomb or the dynamite there, all there was the wire trailing out
of it and you set it upright, is that correct?
A: Yes.
Q: You didn't arm it or attach it to the floor or anything like that?
A: I didn't do anything to it.
Q: You realize now that it doesn't make any difference whether you did or didn't. That doesn't really make
one bit of difference at all at this stage of the game but I want to make sure concerning somebody else that
might have been involved. Because you see what it amounts to, Duane, is that eventually you are going to
have to testify about everything you said here and it isn't going to make one bit of difference whether you
leave out one fact or not, as far as you are concerned. Do you understand what I am trying to tell you?
A: Yes.
The County Attorney needed Duane to say that he armed the bomb to explode because both Mondo and Ed have
reliable, trustworthy alibis for the entire evening. Ed went to a movie with a girl who was the daughter of a New York
City Police Officer. They were together the entire evening, and were together when they heard the blast at 2:00
a.m. Mondo went to a party in another part of town. The woman who threw that party is currently one of the lawyers
on his defense team. Mondo was at her house at 4:00 a.m. when he heard about the blast on the radio. Neither
Mondo nor Ed would have been able to attach the bomb to the floor. If neither Mondo nor Ed nor Duane armed the
bomb to explode, who did?
Subsequent to Duane's August 31st statement, the County Attorney wrote the following in a trial memorandum:
"Find out if a mere jarring of the suitcase could trigger the device if the blue wire was not attached. For instance,
could a party who kicked the suitcase trip the device and trigger the blue wire. (Make your expert say that is
possible.) Emphasis added.
In other words, make your expert lie for the prosecution.
Five days after this statement, on September 5th, Duane was visited by three police officers at the jail where he
was being held in Fremont, some 40 miles from Omaha. He amended his August 31st statement in which he
repeatedly said that Ed Poindexter got the dynamite out of Mondo's basement.
The police officers reported that Duane said Ed Poindexter told him to be at his cousin Frank Peak's house at 9
p.m. One of the NCCF members, Raleigh House, picked them up and drove them to David Rice's house. Ed
Poindexter got out of the car. Duane Peak rode over to House's house where they picked up a suitcase and
returned to David Rice's house. Duane took the suitcase inside. Duane said the suitcase was full of dynamite. He
claimed that Ed took out three sticks to make the bomb and put the rest of the dynamite in a box and took it down
to the basement. Strange that he would omit mention of this car ride in his original statement.
DEPOSITION OF FOSTER GOODLETT
Duane's grandfather, Reverend Foster Goodlett, was a very prominent person in the community. A number of the
police officers who were investigating this case had known Reverend Goodlett for twenty years or more . He was
contacted by the police and the FBI. They told him that his grandson was involved in the murder of Officer Minard.
He had no reason to disbelieve them. Reverend Goodlett was a seventy-five year old man who was a minister. He
was not familiar with the law. He agreed to help the authorities in any way he could. The following are excerpts of a
deposition taken by Mondo's attorney.
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