Some quick thoughts on recent comments:
regarding the FBI being involved with the height determination - IIRC Orlando police said they sent info to FBI concerning their height measurement methodolgy and got a blessing. It was the Orlando police doing it, we saw it in the news video. So any implications that crack FBI experts did this and therefore must be right are wrong.
regarding the police using a methodology where the person matches up in picture - they sorta did that, in a sad pathetic way. The news video showed a short woman, the spokeswoman Barbara Jones if I'm not mistaken, playing the part of the suspect in the measurement.
They further had her hunched over like the Hunchback of Notre Dame in the measurement, as if a short height was not enough. This apparently from their belief that the suspect was hunched over, this apparently stemming from the curved back in the picture. I obviously consider this ludicrous.
They further had her hunched over with big strides if I saw the video correctly. It's been awhile, but it was so pathetic it made a lasting impression on me, and not a pretty one.
So what does all this mean? It means that if you believe the suspect was a short person hunched over, then that's what you stick out there and voila!, hunch proven, so to speak.
regarding expert analysis of pictures - I will tell you the only expert analysis I saw reported, this being a person the police requested to examine the suspect's head (which really needs examining, but I digress). The conclusion of the expert was reported as could be hat or hair, man or woman, they don't know.
There's your expert picture analysis, revel in it.
regarding shoe size - the police wouldn't be able to estimate a shoe size because the shoe is grossly oversized in relation to the body. Now I'll be the first to admit that my initial impression, and what I posted at the time, it's still up but I posted a different opinion after several intense hours of study, was that it looked like a woman to me with hair in a bun and possibly wearing man sized shoes to throw investigators off on footprints. Tha's the best I could come up with because those were practically clown sized shoes.
However, after several hours and some postings of bike helmets among other things to compare to, I could see the curvature in the back that matches a bike helmet. And the overall shape was just too perfectly rounded to be hair in a bun instead of a helmet.
It was with much more study that I came to the conclusion that there is curvature in the lens, and portions of the picture are magnified as on the edge of a magnifying glass. The shoes are in that area of curvature I believe.
regarding wearing a tshirt - while the picture certainly looks like a tshirt, it is almost a certainty it isn't. The picture detail hints at it. The markings on the back are so solid as to make the shirt probably solid covered. The picture looks like the shirt is short sleeved, but in fact the arms cannot be seen and it is indeterminable whether the shirt is short or long sleeved. The baton in the back looks like a rigidly straight short sleeved arm extended back as if marching from a distance, but it is a baton, not his arm.
More importantly, it was January. While reasonably comfy at noon in the sun, Jennifer was abducted before 8am and this suspect would be travelling around, and it wouldn't be in a tshirt. Also while plenty of bike patrol uniforms have a short sleeved jersey, I see the level of insignia and a badge that would make this a dark colored uniform shirt as pictured in the security guard photo I posted with the blowups.
regarding lack of detail in the picture - I reject the notion that the pictures are lacking in detail. In fact, they are amazingly detailed considering that people keep saying they aren't. I see everything I expect to see concerning fence, gate, back of sign, car, tree, and on and on, and no false images, in other words, I don't see a holster or baton or police insignia anywhere else in the picture, or a teddy bear, or anything else that would make you go hmmm.... nope, everything is pictured perfectly. So this stuff about can't be anything there instead of looking at what's there is I think a major failure in this investigation.
regarding overcoming a victim in an assault - I believe the suspect is pictured wearing a taser holster in still two, and gripping the taser pointed straight ahead waist high in still one, which is why it's not seen in the holster. Regarding detail of the holster, I can see the beveled edges of the belt snap for the thigh rig holster, with the strap coming down and forward to the holster from the belt. It is extremely detailed. However I do not see a handle of a gun or taser in the holster.
And certainly a victim will be quickly overcome by a taser, the police do it everyday.
regarding where the suspect is going - drumstick mentioned above a number of police imposters who are or have been assaulting women. One was captured recently in the general area of Orlando where Jennifer lived. Due to some good posting work by others, I'm aware of the arrest of the imposter and that he was a security guard for a company a couple of roads down from Conroy, across from Universal Studios.
I have posted from the beginning, after determining the suspect was wearing a biking helmet and biking shoes, that the suspect likely took a bus down Texas, or over Americana to Orange Blossom and down that road. When I visited the scene of the crime there was a sheltered bus stop catty corner from the Huntingdon at the corner of Texas and Americana.
Why did I think that? Because he either needed to live close by, or have an accomplice pick him up, or take a bus, or take a cab. And of course most think he walked back to Jennifer's complex. Believing he is wearing an armed security guard bike patrol uniform, I do not think he walked back to the Mosaic condos because I don't think he lived there or was driving a car. (and yes, I know about the dog.)
Granted, I also don't know why the heck an imposter would choose a bike patrol uniform either.
I'll also be the first to admit that while I found a security guard uniform and equipment from one Hollywood - Fort Lauderdale security guard company that closed a year after Jennifer disappeared, in the midst of some state actions on their licensing, that uniform and equipment is extremely rare for bike patrol. That is what saddens me the most.
We should have been able to identify the source of the uniform and equipment pictured, we should have been able to rule in or out any legitimate security guard company that used that uniform, and any former employees who might have had access to one and kept it, and got cooperation from the supplier of the uniform and equipment, as much as was sold together, on what individuals may have purchased it outside of a security guard purchase process. It's rare enough that all that could have been done quickly. But nothing but does anyone remember a 5'3" gangbanger wearing a bandanna (implied) walking through Huntingon on the Green ever came about.
I also would have loved to get a hold of the make and model of the surveillance camera and experimented with it, but despite asking several times no one seems to have any info on it. Why would the police withhold that information? I can tell you we'd know in a heatbeat what's going on with those photos if we did.
For example, the police spokewoman said that the dark police uniforms showed up light in the camera, yet no one ever mentions that. They just keep talking about white tshirts and light colored pants, even though we know full well that the camera shows dark uniforms as light. Why? I don't know.
It's like spittin in the wind or banging your head on that brick wall beyond the fence, a brick wall you can see in detail quite clearly by the way with no artifacts. Artifacts apparently only exist on the suspect for some reason in the shape of law enforcement gear.
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