I've spent all day thinking about this; ever since the EnCase time issue was rectified (IMO) I have looked at the laptop and desktop activity. And there is something I continue to not be able to produce a logical answer for. In my opinion, the WS'rs working on the ping data have done an exemplary job of tracking KC's movements, and I have virtually no doubts about the correctness of their analysis and results. And because I have faith in their work, it presents a big problem.
The laptop that KC eventually started using (from the 17th on) showed no user activity through-out the day on the 16th and all the way to somewhere at or after 2 p.m. on the 17th. Some where around that time, it exploded with activity indicative of internet usage. At the same time, the WS'rs have shown that KC's cell phone pings place her in the vicinity of the Anthony home beginning somewhere after 2 p.m. on the 17th.
My contention is that she did not leave the Anthony home on the 16th with the laptop. Why? Because if she had the laptop, she could have just used it at TL's apartment anytime in the more than 24 hours it set idle. But her usage of the laptop did not initiate until after she got into the vicinity of the Anthony home. Therefore, she had to "get to" the laptop before she started using it. I also argue that she didn't have it with her and maybe go to Lee's house to use it, because the same argument applies...if it was with her, she didn't need to travel to the Anthony/LA home area. Now, one thought that should be considered is that the laptop could have been at LA's house all the time, unused, and she drove to LA's home to use it. But CA states it was HER laptop, so I would assume that means it was in the Anthony home. I can think of no good reason this laptop would even be at LA's house, since (if I recall correctly), I believe he was out of town at the time. If he needed a laptop and didn't have one, he would have taken it with him.
This leaves the situation (through logic) that the laptop was at the Anthony home, and KC returned to use it (get it). Here's where the heart-sinking problem enters. At the same time that the laptop went "b*lls to the walls" (sorry, I work in the oilfield and we have illustrative language) so was the Anthony desktop. GA's pattern is pretty easy to pick out from the two day computer usage data we have been made privy to through discovery. He spent an average of a couple of hours surfing the net (or whatever he's doing) prior to going to work just before 3 p.m.
Now, one scenario that could be considered in this coinciding computer usage at the Anthony home is that maybe files were being transferred between the two computers (i.e. maybe George wasn't home and KC showed up and decided she would "get all her stuff" off the desktop and onto the laptop). While this can't be ruled out in the hour from 3 pm to 4 pm (because both times show that so many files were accessed that the number is not displayed on the forensics graph), it cannot be true from 2 pm to 3 pm. Because the laptop shows the number of files accessed during that one hour period and they don't match. If file transfers were taking place between the two computers, it should be a one-to-one file number access count on the two computers.
This leaves us (logical speaking) with the possibility that KC returned to the Anthony house sometime between 2 and 2:20 pm and began using the laptop. AT THE SAME TIME, George was using the desktop. This means that KC returned to that house while George was there. But, if this is true, and I'm finding it difficult to argue myself out of "it must be", George has never divulged that he saw KC again at the house on the 17th.
This concerns me a great deal. But when we add in that June 17th is the date that CA and GA claim that when CA got home from work she found the gate open, the pool supply box moved to the side of the pool, and the pool ladder in the pool, it opens up scenarios that I hesitate to postulate on.
I'm not one to flippantly insinuate ill-doings by people, but, at the same time, there is something wrong here. What happened on the afternoon of the 17th? What does GA know that he possibly hasn't shared?
Caylee was NOT with KC on the night of the 16th when she went to TL's, went to Blockbusters, spent the evening watching movies, etc. A living Caylee, most likely, was not with her when she showed up at the Anthony home on the afternoon of the 17th. Why has GA not stated KC returned alone?