Bringing this over from the use of the shovel thread as it seems more appropriate to the backyard generically vs. specific to the shovel.
The pic of the area between the house and fence leading up to the shed (shown below) was taken by LE Wednesday, 7/16/08 10:13:55PM a few hours after Caseys arrest @ 4:33PM, and just ~15mins after LE took the pic of the white trash bag recovered from the dumpster @ the impound lot.
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FWIW
the K9 search of the Pontiac happened @ 4:42PM on Thursday, 7/17/08 which was followed up by the K9 search of the Anthony backyard @ 7PM on Thursday, 7/17/08.
The question is why would LE take THIS pic 7/16 after the pic of the white trash bag being recovered from the dumpster...and would the reason they took this pic maybe clue us into something. IIRC, Yuri is the one that did the dumpster diving for the white trash bag, so
considering that the time between the pic timestamps allows nothing more than travel from the impound lot to G&Cs house it seems a reasonable assumption that Yuri was the one that snapped this picture.
IMHO the reason LE took this picture is to show that on Thursday, 7/16 @ 10:13PM it was evident that someone had recently moved the hose reel. IMHO, this picture SHOWS that because the pattern of the leaves near the faucet in the pic betray that the hose reel box HAD been sitting next to the faucet and kept those colored leaves from being evenly scattered on the ground in that area - HENCE the alignment of the leaves Anyone that has ever seen leaves blown by the wind in an alley until they start piling up by a barrier can relate to this effect. In addition, the washout of mulch adjacent to this area shows where water from the faucet and/or coiled up hose might typically occur when in its 'normal' place.
Sooooo
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WHY would you move the hose reel???? Perhaps because you needed the hose to extend further than it could from its normal location! :shocked2: And/or you needed to use the hose from a different faucet...say....the one off the back porch!! That one would enable you to reach an area further away from the house...say...the area of mulch back by the back patio/picnic table, etc. where the K9 alerts were in what might be the low-points where wash water would collect/puddle.
IF a faucet attachment near the back porch was taken by LE (as suggested by another poster)...perhaps it was for prints, from being noticeably wet/muddy from recent use...or wishful thinking...from a decomp alert. FWIW, a "faucet attachment" to me would describe what I call a male quick-connect fitting that is typically screwed onto the threaded part of the faucet when one of these hose reels is used. It has an o-ring that allows a hose (with a matching female fitting) to be quickly & conveniently attached & unattached from the faucet. The attachment typically stays on the faucet where the hose is most often used. IF this type of attachment was found on the back porch faucet instead of on the faucet @ the side of the house where the leaves, betray the hose reel had been sitting...even without prints, mud/moisture, or decomp on it...it would strongly support that the hose reel had been very recently moved & used @ the back porch faucet and the user (perhaps in a rush
) forgot to move it back when they took the hose reel back to the corner of the house. :thumb:
It is interesting to note...that perhaps
after Yuri recovered the white trash bag...yet
before the K9's alerted on the backyard...that Yuri appears to have made this observation about the hose reel move. :thumb:
Another - entirely unrelated possibility - is that the stolen-gas-can report came to light ~7/16 and Yuri decided to take a picture of the shed from which the cans were reported stolen during a visit. Hmmm....naaaaaah :shakehead.
Perhaps an altogether different explanation for the leaf pattern is that something else entirely had been located next to the faucet up against the house and was 'missing'. :waitasec:
