Ok but when did we hear Abby ever had a phone? Why leave LG’s phone under Abby?? Why take the two small kids away and then return them later when people were out searching?
IF L’s phone was in fact just missed by the killer(s), the only 2 explanations IMO would be that either…L was carrying 2 phones that day, as speculated by some other sleuthers, and the perp(s) took what they believed was the only phone, not realizing a second existed… or that the physical murderer(s) were different than the perp escorting A & L down the hill who saw them using a phone to take pics, and the CS murderers believed that BG had already collected phones or that possibly the girls didn’t have phones since one wasn’t found on A.
There is no way the sound of a Sig P226 being cocked is going to be identifiable on audio. It would sound like a very small twig snapping. Not much different from switching the safety off or on.
IF any framing occurred (IMO possible but in the category like everything else in this case of highly unlikely but we’ve already seen stranger things) it would not have knowingly involved A&L as you speculate above nor knowingly involved BG either, but would’ve occurred something like this;
This possibly had a role in his suicide. I believe it likely did. However, we don't know what his mental health history was like. He could have had suicidal ideation going on for weeks, months or even years before he finally did it. We're not told if he had any prior attempts either. It would be neat and tidy to say he suicided because he was in receipt of the leaked info and police asked him for an interview but there may be far more to it. Far more than even just his being in receipt and asked for an interview - who knows what he may have known about the crime or the perp or why MW opted to send this particular person the info? I can't give full credit to the leak for RF's suicide with so little other information available to us.
He’s using it for the threat value and not as the weapon it really is. TV and movies are always showing the cops and the perps racking the slide just before the action gets serious. Some people actually do carry with an empty chamber, although this practice has been compared to thinking you’ll have time to buckle your seat belt before the crash. TV and movies perpetuate really silly ideas about handguns. They frequently show the hammer being drawn back as a threat on weapons that are never thumb-cocked in normal, sane use.
I was actually playing along until it got past #4. Then it went off the rails for me. Maybe they should re-work it?
Well, first the OP didn't say the audio recorded the sound of the slide racking, they said it recorded the sound of a gun being cocked. Second, if the slide was racked on audio there should be an ejected round back up at the top of the hill, not over on RL's property.
Yes, the P seems to have coined "unique contempt".
Racking the slide IS cocking the gun. (Yes, it does other things, too.) The girls probably had to be menaced more than once. And he really doesn’t want to fire that thing. It’s loud.
This is a single/double action firearm. It has a hammer, not a striker like a Glock. When you initially rack the slide to load a round into the chamber, it also cocked the hammer. The hammer can remain cocked (and locked if you engage the safety), or you can decock it (there is an actual de-cocker on the P226). Once decocked, you can still pull the trigger and gun go boom. It is double action, like a revolver. Or, you can '*advertiser censored*' the hammer and then pull the trigger and gun go boom, but in single action (meaning easier trigger pull, more acurate shot).
I say that because the odds of RA arriving at approx 1:47 and Libby & Abby arriving minutes later, along with the fact that RA walked with 'purpose, head down, hands in pockets, on a mission' from the Freedom Bridge towards the MHB and caught up to them within minutes seems just too coincidental to me. I may be wrong also.
Irrelevant. He’s scaring two teenage girls who he presumes not to know how his Sig works.
