HARDIN CO.—There are a lot of things Tara Wallace is…and there are a couple of things she is not.
One of the latter is a capable prosecutor.
One of the former is suspiciously close to the case involving the death of Tim Dillard.
Regular readers will recall that Dillard died one day before the release and distribution of the July-August 2013 edition. It was widely believed that his death was suicide, and that he pulled the gas line out of the interior of its entry to the house to do himself in. However, the subsequent investigation hasn’t been conclusive on that, and it remains entirely possible that Dillard was either the victim of a strange accident, or that someone intentionally did him in.
Added to the confusion is the ongoing attempt to get people to believe that Dillard didn’t know Tara Wallace, who, as the county’s state’s attorney, had been hot after trying to pin charges against the county sheriff’s father, Jerry Dean Fricker. Dillard ultimately told Disclosure that he was the one who had provided the tip about Fricker to law enforcement other than the sheriff (JT Fricker). It therefore stood to reason that that’s how Wallace knew about it…but the denials went on. These included Wallace refusing to turn over phone records past January of this year, after the county was specifically FOIAd for them…because this is when, Dillard said, he’d reported the situation with the elder Fricker.
What was the “situation”? Read this entry of “Read the Lead” to learn more—Assistant fire chief ’s death not deemed suicide just yet; friends dispel rumors — Connections with Cook and Wallace families questioned:
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HARDIN CO.—The death of Elizabethtown assistant fire chief Tim Dillard was said to be a suicide on the day it was discovered (July 23, 2013), but now, officials have cautioned that that may have been a hasty assessment of it.
And friends and family of the man, who is originally from Gallatin County, are saying they absolutely do not believe that he killed himself by pulling out a gas line in his E-town home, based on a few simple facts: He was a smoker, he was making plans for an outing the next day, and he would never have done anything that put his 16-year-old daughter, who resided with him part-time in the home, in any kind of danger, as a gas-filled house might have done.
It was announced to Disclosure on the evening of the body being discovered that “Bertis Cook had had an argument with Tim over the article in the (current edition), Tim went home, killed himself, and Bertis went in later and found the body,” this, said the gentleman delivering the information, coming straight from Cook (E-town village president) himself.
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