When Dennehy’s girlfriend confesses that Bliss was paying for Dennehy’s tuition, rent, and car, Bliss denies these claims as well.But after Abar Rouse, an assistant coach for Baylor at the time, began secretly recording meetings with players and coaches, the extent of Bliss’s involvement is made clear to investigators. (Thomas has never been charged with anything related to the killing.) All Rights Reserved.Sorry, we’re unable to find an account with that username and password. “He was a byproduct of that cancer.” Whether Baylor’s cancer has been eradicated is a question The stories you want, delivered to your inbox.The stories you want, delivered to your inbox.Burn it and raze it to the ground, then salt the Earth where the buildings once stood. They had purchased two pistols and a rifle and practiced firing them at a farm north of An affidavit filed on June 23, which was unsealed on June 30, seeking a search warrant for Dennehy's computer says that an informant in On October 28, 2004, Dotson was declared incompetent to stand trial by District Judge George Allen and was sent to a state mental hospital to be reevaluated in four months' time. In another meeting, Bliss tells Rouse that Thomas would back up their stories about Dennehy dealing drugs.
After Baylor basketball’s Patrick Dennehy was killed, Coach Dave Bliss claimed he was a drug dealer. At one point, Bliss assures other players that Dennehy won’t be able to deny their statements because “he’s dead.”After investigators requested his bank statements, making clear that he’d been caught violating NCAA regulations by paying Dennehy, Bliss resigned from Baylor. A Baylor teammate of Dennehy’s, Carlton Dotson, confessed to the murder and was sentenced to prison. “I mean, I said bad things about their kid.” In another part, when Bliss seems close to taking some responsibility, he casts it as still not quite his fault: “I had allowed the world of competitive athletics to take me to a place that was so dark.”Still, Bliss seemed to quickly move past that darkness. Now he’s doing it again in a new documentary, ‘Disgraced.’ On June 15, Dotson was sentenced to 35 years in prison. He along with many other representatives from Baylor attended Dennehy's funeral. There was a feeling among audience members that much like Dennehy’s death, it won’t take long to forget.“Thank you for telling this story,” one audience member said to Kondelis. Following his resignation and NCAA suspension, he found work coaching at several prep schools. At Baylor, concerns quickly shifted from that summer’s basketball scandal to issues with Robert B. Sloan, Jr, then president of the university.
In the summer of 2003, reports surfaced that Dennehy and Dotson were concerned about their safety.