Shuman's cover-up of Paul Pollard begins immediately after he arrived on the murder site. He told the other law officials that there was no need for the crime lab. He avoids using Pollard's name and calls him the "other short guy" and the "short guy." He states that it was later that Linda identified Paul PollardPollard's 3-3-1981 statement in Shuman's words says that Pollard was sleeping in a back room on a lawn chair disregarding Linda's information that he was on the couch.
 
 
The photo below shows the top of the couch that Pollard was sleeping on and it shows it directly under the stairs leading to the loft where Mike was sleeping.  Linda says twice in both her statements that Paul Pollard was on the couch.  Why go to Percy's room to sleep on a lawn chair?