Good work RLTP and Aunty. Your ideas certainly merit closer testing, but the main thing that I find confusing (and this is where somebody - eg Alioop - can correct me if I'm wrong) but I thought Judge Applegarth is quoted as saying that Allison's phone connected to the FTP cell - then remained on there for 13 hours! Presumably until the battery ran flat.
Aunty's point about that back way is also a good one, but the main problem I'd have there is the hilliness of the route. Cell towers predominantly connect in line of sight (i.e. sight to the phone for radio waves - not literally "eyesight"). That route you describe, with which I'm very familiar (I used to live on Witton Rd/Radnor St MANY years ago). But when you describe turning onto Jesmond Rd - do you actually mean Jerrang St, which goes off the roundabout at the top of FTP road near the little store? Just up the hill from the FTP tower at the soccer grounds? Once you're on Jerrang St I suspect you'd drift out of range of the FTP tower as you go down the hill past Nudgee Junior school, and you'd be in the range of the Indooroopilly tower up ahead on Kate St. And while you're winding along Radnor St with that cliff on your left, I think it'd be the tower ahead on Coonan St near the bridge.
As I said - lots to consider here. All thoughts welcome. And could Alioop confirm that the judge referred to Allison's phone being on that FTP cell for 13 hours? Or was that just the report in the MSM?
EDIT: just found this:
from
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/gerard-badenclay-denied-bail-20121214-2beo5.html
I think the phone was dumped as soon as he knew it was in the range of the FTP tower. ( If he drove this way for many years, he would know the spot where it connects. Remember when you could hear the new connections through the radio. That blipping noise. He would know where that was , from memory)
We know the accused phoned police at 7.15 am. And he said he was driving, looking for Allison. He sounded panicked? .... But it was really too early to panick. He knew it was too early to call, but he had to call. He was worried the police would find out that he drove to where he dumped the phone. He needed a reason for driving that morning. He needed to seem very worried and panicked.
We have all thought it odd that he phoned so early.
We have wondered what triggered this need to call the police so early.
It was this odd timing, that was his biggest mistake. :rocker:
I think this is why he panicked and phoned the police that morning.
:twocents:
First, He needed to prove that Allison was alive in the morning.
That she had left their home alive.
That he had no idea where she went, and he did not murder her.
He still had her phone so he decided to use it to prove his innocence.
He believed that the police would find the phones trail and it would prove where Allison went. He needed it to ping at that FTP phone tower and he hatched his plan. ( he would have been understanding of tower signals and phone pipping, as he was involved in a spy business and he was used to hiding his affairs.
He just had to take it on a path away from their house , (when he said she may have left to go for a morning walk) and leave it switched on , at another remote tower. It had to be in a quiet area with no witnesses. He has left his phone at home, and driven off to Kenmore via Kenmore rd with Allisons phone. He has dumped it, in an area close to the tower at FTP and away from traffic and houses.
He has turned around and driven back to Brookfield, thinking about how he could get caught. he has then panicked, and realised he could later be placed where the phone was thrown ,if someone saw him , so he'd need a good reason for driving there if he is later caught.
He arrives back at the Brookfield house, grabbed his phone, then driven around Brookfield, and called police, telling them specifically he was out looking for Allison. He just hopes no one witnessed his earlier drive.
I think this is where the phone is, and why he phoned the police too early to report Allison missing.
