Samuel Dieteman
Live from the courtroom: A witness who took the stand just before the lunch break dropped a big surprise about Samuel Dieteman, the man who authorities say was Dale Hausner’s accomplice for many of the shootings.
Joetta Gonzales, who described Dieteman as “my best friend,” said that the 33-year-old confided in her that he had shot a man on a bicycle. However, he told her the shooting was not with Hausner, but with a man named Lenny Constable.
“He told me about shooting a man on a bicycle,” Gonzales testified. “He told me he was with Lenny Constable.”
Gonzales did not say what the date of this supposed shooting was, or what the motive might have been. However, she repeatedly described Constable as “a bad man.”
Authorities have never charged Dieteman with a shooting in connection to Constable, and the supposed shooting has never been made widely public until today. It’s not clear whether, in fact, there even was such a shooting or whether Dieteman, who has confessed to two murders and numerous other shootings in the Serial Shooter killing spree, was simply lying at the time.
Gonzales used to be a bartender at a number of the places Dieteman hung out in west Phoenix. She said she and Dieteman used to be very close, but she has not seen him since his arrest.