Dale Hausner
Live from the courtroom: This afternoon on the witness stand, Serial Shooter suspect Dale Hausner admitted to lying to a journalist in a 2006 interview about a bizarre note police found in his apartment. The note read: “He who asks about the $5 bill is a homicidal maniac, arsonist, thief, destroyer of property, drug using god among mortals.”
In September 2006, about a month after his arrest, Hausner told journalist Katie McDevitt of the East Valley Tribune newspaper in a phone interview from the jail that he was shocked and had never heard of the note before. Then, earlier this week, Hausner testified that he, in fact, had penned the note. I pointed out the contradiction at the time here on HEAT CITY.
Just minutes ago, Maricopa County prosecutor Vince Imbordino quizzed Hausner about this glaring inconsistency. “I absolutely lied to a reporter, sir,” Hausner said. “Yes I did.”
The reason? Hausner said he wanted to be portrayed better in the media, so that’s why he lied.
“You were wanting the news media to portray you in a better light,” Imbordino clarified. “And so to get the news media to portray you in a better light, you lied.”
“I lied so that I would not give you guys the opportunity to twist what I said in court,” Hausner said. “That’s why I lied.”
Since the exchange, Imbordino has continued to lay out a number of lies that Hausner made in the past two and a half years. He has gotten Hausner to admit to lying to police, his employer and his girlfriends.