Who shot the deputy (if it was neither Bob Marley nor Eric Clapton)?
Most of you probably know the song “I Shot the Sheriff”, which was written and performed by Bob Marley and peaked at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 as a cover version by Eric Clapton. When my radio alarm clock woke me up this morning playing that song, I instantly asked myself a question which I have been asking myself so many times before: “If it was neither Bob Marley nor Eric Clapton, who shot the sheriff, then whodunit?” A quick search on the internet revealed that there are numerous speculations about the deputy being killed by Dick Cheney in a hunting accident. But why was Bob Marley a suspect then? Another possible suspect would be Lee Harvey Oswald, given the killing of the deputy occurred before 1963. This wouldn’t rule out Marley and Clapton as suspects because both were born in 1945. Depending on the location of the murder, it might also have been the deed of the infamous Zodiac Killer, who operated in Northern California in the late 1960s.
I sincerely hope that with the advent of DNA profiling the true killer will surface one day and be brought to justice!
It was the sheriff.
Then he tried to set bob marley up.
Of course nobody would believe in Bob.. so he shot the sheriff!
Sheriff Brown…(he hated me. Why? I do not know. everytime that I plant a seed, he’d say, “Kill it before it grows”…[I believe there is an implication that I planted a seed with the deputy so Sheriff Brown “killed it” before it grew and then tried to frame me for the murder because “he hated me” but I shot the sheriff before it all played out in self-defense.
Gui
July 22, 2009 at 01:39
Clearly the person who shot the deputy was Sheriff John Brown himself. He shot the deputy, then tried to pin the crime on Bob Marley. When the sheriff came to arrest Bob and aimed his gun at him, Bob shot him. He had to (but he didn’t shoot the deputy; John Brown did!).
Case closed.
Isaac Karp
January 12, 2010 at 00:07