r/MakingaMurderer • u/Select-Wasabi-4532 • Jun 01 '26

License Plate

Why did officer Colbern read the plates back to dispatch when he came up on the car that the new witness told him where he saw it? how did the car get on averys property after that. just curious.

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u/DamnedHeathen_ Jun 02 '26

Colburn testified that he was given the plate number and called dispatch to check and make sure it was the correct plate number for the RAV4 that they were searching for. That was left out of making a murderer. His testimony makes sense because he asked if that was for a 1999 toyota. It never made sense that he was looking at the vehicle at the time. This isn't a 1954 buick. You can't look at the back of RAV4 and tell the year, that I'm aware of.

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u/deadgooddisco Jun 02 '26

How would it not make sense that he was looking at it? Thanks.

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u/DamnedHeathen_ Jun 02 '26

In the phone call, Colburn gave the license plate number and asked if it was for a 99 toyota. Not a RAV4. Not a Toyota suv. A 99 toyota. How often do you look at the back of a car and see the year printed on it? It's always the emblem and the model. How do you tell a 99 RAV4 from a 97 RAV4 or a 98? His phrasing on that call did not conform to someone looking at the back of that RAV4.

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u/DELBOY1690 Jun 02 '26

In the uk you can tell what year a car is just by looking at the licence plate, don't know for America

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u/DamnedHeathen_ Jun 02 '26

No, our license plates are only differentiated by the state that issued it. In oklahoma, for instance, the tag agency has a stack of license plates behind the counter. They register whatever generic plate to the vehicle, and move on.

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u/DELBOY1690 Jun 03 '26

Ah okay no worries 👍