"The Spring Creek/121 Intersection is on the Denton County side....."
"Where is the county line? Is it near "121" ?"
Just to clarify, while the conversation here focused for awhile on the 121/Spring Creek interchange, apparently that location was never mentioned in the courtroom. Instead, the witness spoke of traveling on 121 toward the cell tower at Spring Creek, in reference to the one at Spring Creek and Coit. That tower area, and traveling that direction, would have put EA smack dab in the middle of Collin Co.
As far as the county line issue, based on what we know, there's no issue of having crossed county lines. Collin County is almost a square, and if you visualize it as a square clock face with numbers:
a - the DNT runs N-S down the west side of Collin County
b - SAL and the portion of 121 just adjacent to it, would be at about 8 on your clock face
c - so once he got on 121 traveling E he had to go maybe 20 miles before he left the county
d - if he traveled on 121 heading E and turned N on 75, it would also have been about 15-20 miles to pass a county line, and maybe a bit fewer to go 121 to 75 southbound and leave Collin C
e - both EA's home and his work are well within county lines, with the closest border maybe 5 miles from his house and 3 miles from his work
f - the issue is only one of where he might have first abducted her, ie against her will, and there's really no indication he left the county that night
"Where is the county line? Is it near "121" ?"
Just to clarify, while the conversation here focused for awhile on the 121/Spring Creek interchange, apparently that location was never mentioned in the courtroom. Instead, the witness spoke of traveling on 121 toward the cell tower at Spring Creek, in reference to the one at Spring Creek and Coit. That tower area, and traveling that direction, would have put EA smack dab in the middle of Collin Co.
As far as the county line issue, based on what we know, there's no issue of having crossed county lines. Collin County is almost a square, and if you visualize it as a square clock face with numbers:
a - the DNT runs N-S down the west side of Collin County
b - SAL and the portion of 121 just adjacent to it, would be at about 8 on your clock face
c - so once he got on 121 traveling E he had to go maybe 20 miles before he left the county
d - if he traveled on 121 heading E and turned N on 75, it would also have been about 15-20 miles to pass a county line, and maybe a bit fewer to go 121 to 75 southbound and leave Collin C
e - both EA's home and his work are well within county lines, with the closest border maybe 5 miles from his house and 3 miles from his work
f - the issue is only one of where he might have first abducted her, ie against her will, and there's really no indication he left the county that night