Matt Pulle and Managing Editor Patrick Williams of The Dallas Observer came by to see me this afternoon. They brought Pulle’s phone records. Pulle’s phone records did not appear to have been tampered.

According to the records, Pulle and Jim Gilliand talked on the phone for 13 minutes just after the obscene phone calls to Gilliand occurred. There were multiple obscene calls according to the investigator’s report. Pulle’s records show one call to Gilliand on the day of the obscene calls. This contradicts the Ellis County Sheriff’s Department investigator’s report.

Apparently, I am not the only one who thinks all of this is odd. Patrick Williams told me that The Dallas Observer is asking for the case to be re-opened. The case file should have the subpoenaed call records in it. So, it shouldn’t take more than a minute or two to see who actually made the obscene calls.

In reviewing the investigator’s report, it isn’t completely clear, but the simplest explanation as to why the report concluded that Pulle made the calls is that:

Gilliand gave Pulle’s phone number to the investigator

The investigator subpoenaed phone records and called Gilliand to tell him that the phone number belonged to Matt Pulle

Gilliand told the ...   more »