In my opinion, she was deliberately parking where there would be no video of Kaine's F250 while she was inside the stores with the baby.
She was being careful of not only the Fred Meyer stores' security systems but also of the security systems of the businesses located in the parking lots of the Fred Meyer stores.
Kyron hadn't been reported missing yet and wouldn't be for many hours.
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Kyron’s DNA was found in the bed of the truck.
PORTLAND, Ore– Kyron Horman went missing 10 years ago in June. He was 7 years old at...
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"A" is the approximate vicinity of her chosen parking spot at Imbrie/Cornelius Pass Fred Meyer. I've circled the prominent parking lot businesses. (This may have changed since 2010 but I'm sure most of them would have been there, or something else in their place).
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And it's obvious that there are spots further away from the store's front that also has no cameras close by.
"B" is the approximate vicinity of her chosen parking spot at Walker Road Fred Meyer. The red circles indicate the same pattern of parking where there was no chance of surveillance cameras monitoring the F250 while she was "shopping" inside the Fred Meyer with the baby.
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Same here. Of course, she would have no way of knowing what would show up on a camera, since she never worked at either location.
It just makes no sense to bring your (still living) victim with you to the very place where you need to be seen to create your alibi.
With the exception of the Google Maps Distance and Driving Time inserts, the following is a snipped quote:
Yes, this passage from the Morris book is a great example of how careless it is with the facts. It does seem obvious to me that at this point, almost a decade later, Desiree does not possess the full facts or any reasonable means to get to them.
June 5, 2010:
By Saturday afternoon, police were still trying to pin down Terri’s timeline. Desiree’s and Kaine’s were solid. Terri’s was the only complicated one.
[Mother of a child in Kyron’s class] told police she had seen Terri take Kyron's photo in front of his science exhibit. That was at 8:45 a.m.
This is false information, since from the very start, PTA president Gina Zimmerman testified to seeing Terri and Kyron in front of their project in the classroom at
8:15. This is not Morris being sloppy, but an idea Desiree seems to have gotten
years later. At first she claimed it was based on "technology" (metadata, one supposes), but that is mysteriously absent from the book.
[5.6 miles/10 minutes—Google Maps Distance and Driving Time]
At 9:12 a.m. Terri was caught on a surveillance video leaving the Fred Meyer store on Northwest Imbrie Drive in Hillsboro.
Yet, 9:12 is the specific time given on the receipt Terri got at that location, not the time she was spotted driving away. If it was the Starbucks drivethrough I suppose they could match.
[4.9 miles/11 minutes—Google Maps Distance and Driving Time]
At 9:40 a.m. she was on video leaving another Fred Meyer, on Southwest Walker Road.
This, however, is way off. The police have been consistent in saying Terri's shopping run ended at 10:10 or 10:15. This is inconsistent with leaving at 9:40, but Morris also fudges the time Terri arrives at the gym (it was 11:39, but the book erroneously says 12:20), expanding the time Terri was driving around unwitnessed from 90 minutes to almost three hours.
The idea that the video showed her leaving at 9:40 falls flat on its face when you realize that the ones who studied the footage put out
this flier immediately after. Why on earth would they ask for sightings of the truck at 10:00 if the footage they themselves viewed showed it leaving at 9:40?
Police studied the footage from the stores. It was curious. The outdoor surveillance cameras showed Terri driving and [the baby] in the child seat in the back. Due to the angle of the camera, it was impossible to tell if anyone else was in the vehicle and if Kyron’s booster seat was empty.
How on earth would Terri know the angles of the cameras and how to park so that they covered exactly what she wanted to show, and nothing more?
Terri parked Kaine’s truck away from the stores’ entrances. Not in an effort to avoid a ding from another car; there were plenty of places to park to avoid that. She parked in areas as far from the stores front doors as possible, deserted areas with no other vehicles nearby. And no cameras.
Well, I've clearly shown that this is wrong. There are places further away and they would not be deserted. Ridiculous hyperbole from Morris.
I've seen people park magnificent Corvettes "far away" in a parking lot and then someone with an old wreck park right beside them. Just because they thought it would be humorous or to make the Corvette owner nervous.
Parking "far away" in a parking lot can draw attention to a vehicle.
Sure, nothing is certain. But so much of this case (at least in the public perception) relies on there only being one single way of doing things ever, only one single way of thinking of things. Because if there isn't, pretty much all of Terri's actions that day are perfectly explainable.
It was interesting, reading the old threads in this forum. When Terri's reason for driving around with the baby came out, people scoffed. "Who does that? Obvious lie!" It took a few pages before commenters started speaking up. "Well, I do, actually." "It's not that uncommon." Similarly, when the photos from the FM parking lots became public (and showed Terri had been truthful about her locations) there was more scoffing: "Who would park that far away? She must have been trying to hide something!" and again it took a bit for others to chime in: "I do, especially when I drive a larger vehicle."
It takes a lot of effort and plenty of denial (and as the Morris book shows, a hefty dose of hyperbole) to make Terri's parking choices that morning suspicious.
However, I'd like to see a link confirming that she did have the baby on her hip, please.
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She took pictures that morning so she must have put the baby down for at least a short period of time.
She took pictures with her phone, no? Only need one hand for that.
Plenty of pictures exist of the baby in her stroller while at Skyline on other days.
Well, first, that would likely depend on how long Terri was planning on staying at the school. For a whole day, a stroller might be useful, since there might be naptime involved.
But this is yet another case of there not being just one single understandable course of action.
The 18-month-old would have been getting along well on her own steam by that age. She was doing very well in the video Terri took of Kyron in his Grade 1 talent show. She was a distance away from her mother as she stood and giggled with delight at seeing her big brother on stage. She lifted her hands up in the air like the bigger kids were doing. So precious.
OK, so there would be no problem putting her down for a little while? Then I see no reason a stroller had to be used.
