For days, the Fort Worth Fire Department
has been asking his witnesses to undergo
hypnosis to get more complete
descriptions of the men they believed to
be the arsonists today.
Besides, the hypnosis action, News loaned
its artist, Jackie von Hagens, to the
fire department to make sketches from the
witnesses descriptions.
Both witnesses who didn't want to be
identified underwent hypnosis with
hypnosis investigator Frank Monahan's.
After each session with Monahan's, each
of the witnesses sat down with Jackie to
describe the man they saw inside
the University Christian Church last
Sunday.
The sketches are remarkably close,
especially when you realize that the man
was seen just briefly from two different
angles.
It'll be a matter of comparing the
drawings we've got with some photographs
we're getting and just
follow up the leads.
We'll have a group of pictures together
and we'll try to get the various people
to see if they recognize any of the men.
I'm told the sketches could well be
making the rounds of the TCU campus come
Monday. If investigators can
get another witness or two under hypnosis
this weekend.
Fire officials feel very good about what
happened here.
But there was one nagging doubt in the
back of their minds.
What happens if the descriptions and
the pictures don't help?
The fire department is running short
around leads.
Chief Hitchcock himself admits that the
road is getting narrow when it boils
down to IS.
In this case, it looks like if there is
no break soon, there may not be any break
at all.
Ed Martel, Channel 5 Action News,
Fort Worth.