Part 119, page 244

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FD-302 (REV. 11-27-70)

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

Date of transcription 10/26/76

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VERNUCE A. HOFFKE[illegible trailing mark] telephonically contacted writer at the Lafayette Resident Agency and advised that after being interviewed by Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on October 19, 1976, he had been trying to defintely account for his presence during Thanksgiving of 1971 and after talking to his wife he was positive that during Thanksgiving of 1971 while driving for [redacted] he was working with another driver by the name of [redacted] and that the both of them drove together on cross-country runs and at that time in 1971 he and [redacted] had taken a truck to California and he remembers specifically that while in California he contacted [redacted] and advised her he was in California for a day or two and [redacted] where they stayed the day before Thanksgiving as well as Thanksgiving Day and ate Thanksgiving dinner with her and left the day after Thanksgiving, driving back to Louisiana.

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HOFFKE advised that he also believes that [redacted] is living in Milford, Iowa, rather than Sheldon, Iowa, as he had advised Agent in previous interview and that should she be contacted he felt certain she could verify this information and that he knows for a fact either [redacted] or Durall Trucking Company in Beaumont, Texas, could also verify this information.

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[illegible cursive, approx: "sh...717"] 164-81-7720

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Interviewed on 10/20/76 at Lafayette, Louisiana File # NO 164-136 -11

by SA [redacted] :ebc Date dictated 10/20/76

This document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions of the FBI. It is the property of the FBI and is loaned to your agency; it and its contents are not to be distributed outside your agency.

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