Okay, I was thinking about a muti-gun theory last night. Here is what I came up with.

A minimum of three shooters. LHO may or may not have been one of them.
Three different guns. One standard rifle, similar to the Carcano, or any deer rifle (Gun 1). Two that fired very light weight bullets of about 6 mm caliber (Guns 2 & 3).

Shot one happened around from 165 based on the reaction of Connelly. This was the bullet either hit the window frame, hit the curb at the end of the street, or possibly did both. Personally, I think if it hit the window frame, there would have been a much different reaction from inside the car. This was with Gun 1.

Shot two was the back hit around frame 200 as some claim. This was by Gun 2 firing some special type of bullet.

Shot three was to the throat at frame 223. This was by Gun 3 and also used the special bullet.

Shot four came from Gun 1 at some point. It had to be fired from behind to cause the wounds on Connelly. Since shot 1 missed, 2 never came through, 3 came from the front and 5 was way too high, this had to be a separate shot.

Shot five came from Gun 1 again and was the head shot. This is the best bet in my book for the round that hit the window frame. The impact shattered the bullet into at least three parts, two of which landed back in the car.

The since the second and third shots produced no exit wounds, the bullets never left the body. This means they slowed down very quickly; the one in the neck must have stopped nearly on impact. What sort of bullet would penetrate less than 4 inches of soft tissue? Even a 22 LR will pass through soft tissue as thick as a neck.

Now, since this is well planned and thought out conspiracy, we have to assume that the plan to recover the bullets was part of it from the beginning, hence the use of the special bullets in two of the guns. The entrance wounds had to be similar, not exact, but close to the 6.5mm round they planned to use for the set up. They could not risk the bullets being made of anything that leave a trace in the body, so it couldn’t fragment, even if it hit bone. It had to either be very light, or go very slow, to stop in such a short time. Let’s say it was a 6mm steel BB, like the kind that are used with sling shots that would be pretty light, and if fired at a subsonic speed my have the required lack of penetration. But then, the chances of that being fatal are not that high, so we have to question the point of it. Poison delivery maybe?

So we have at least three shooters, firing at least 5 shots. Two of them could have been fairly quiet, accounting for the witness reports that only three shots were heard. Two of the guns fired ammunition that would seem to have a hard time passing through a large house cat, with the PLAN to remove them from the body at the hospital. If Guns 2 & 3 did not use special ammo, why did the bullets not punch through?

Does this seem overly complex to anyone else? Did I miss some stuff?

__________________
I'm not evil.
An evil person would do the things I think up.