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Q: by the time the witnesses provided their info to create sketches: had LE seen the video from LG’s phone? Had the artist(s)? Had it been on TV yet??Agreed.
FWIW, I could see being reticent to lock down a description if I were BB, not because I didn't want to cooperate or was fearful, but because having only a fuzzy memory/view of a person, I would feel like I wouldn't be able to do a good job with it. I'd want it to be right. And how do you do it right if you feel like you only saw him for a second, from a distance, didn't know it would be important at the time, and were probably thinking about a million other things at the time?
And yet, she agreed to do it. And she was spot on in the ways that matter most. Lone male, bulky, locked down by the fixed facts of her timeline. Even without Libby's video, her testimony and sketch nails RA.
She gave a broad age range, the high end not far off. LE, when publishing the photo, reminded people the individual might appear younger than his age.
I imagine LE got a variety of descriptions that day. Of individuals who had decent reason to be there that day and were not involved. Earlier and later in the day. LE had to sift through them. It's likely IMO that BB's sketch lost priority with the discovery of Libby's video. Photo over sketch.
But later, in 2019, became a fresh offering because, due to BB's known timeline, her BG was pinned on the bridge very close to 2 pm. The man she saw had to be the same man Libby recorded. Which is why LE could say, with confidence at that press conference, the two sketches are the same man.
Black clothes, blue clothes, poofy hair or not, all the prime witnesses (with verified timestamps) saw the same one man who was captured in Libby's video (with a verified timestamp), ordering Abby and Libby down the hill.
It can't be said enough. Libby videotaped a capital crime in progress, hers, theirs. The man, the threat (the voice, the presence of a gun, reaffirmed with the discovery of a unchambered cartridge), truly outstanding work.
If she had been a witness and not a victim, she would have been lauded with a community award IMO, for her wherewithall and bravery.
Instead, RA brutally murdered her. He stole her life.
He doesn't get to take away her wherewithall and bravery.
JMO