Linda Duffey Gwozdz and the tale of Elmer Fudd | Forensic Files

we have this VHS cabinet next to the garage door and it was sitting there so I I picked up the gun
um just just to look at it then that's when I I said where are the where are the the bullets and he said over there
and I said oh good and he we do this little silly thing we always kind of relate little silly
conversations to like cartoons that we've seen when we were younger and stuff and there was a Bugs Bunny cartoon
with Elmer foot and he does the silly little Elmer fed voice no more bullets and then the response from
either one of us whoever says it first the response is oh no more bullets I'm not really familiar with guns I'm not
afraid of them but I I've never shot a gun in my life and he says well what you do is you pull that little thing back
and do it real quick like the wild west and I went Pat that's stupid and he says
no that's how you do it it's just but he was being just joking so when I had the
gun in my hand and he said no more bullets and I said oh no more bullets but he was sitting
up he was sitting on the sofa so I made sure that it was pointed down on the sofa I it was it was pointed down and
the next thing I know he his hand was right there was right there he was sitting up
and I did that a couple times real quick and I didn't even know he told me there
was no bullets in the gun he said the bullets were out

Just hours after fatally shooting her husband, Patrick Duffey, in 2007, Linda Duffey Gwozdz explained to detectives that the couple was reenacting a favorite cartoon scene when the gun accidentally went off.

Brief Summary

A humorous yet serious recount of a gun incident involving a misunderstanding about bullets.

Key points

A Silly Gun Conversation. A lighthearted exchange about guns turns serious when a friend jokes about bullets.

Episode highlights

A Silly Gun ConversationA lighthearted exchange about guns turns serious when a friend jokes about bullets.“Oh no more bullets!”0:58Oct 30, 2015

Episode quotes

That's stupid!

A humorous response to a friend's suggestion about handling a gun.

0:50WatchOct 30, 2015

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