I'm not buying that at the moment. He saw something within metres of the place (on a long walking route) that made him first stop and look, and then go back the next day to see what else was there. You're proposing that what he first saw had nothing to do with the suit? A coincidence? (It crossed my mind, when I thought what he'd said was "white top", that he was having a jab at the investigation, implying that what made him stop was that he'd spotted Jubelin or another watching. Jubelin wears white shirts.)
Not following you about what the psychologist said about Chapman. Spell that out?
He said the first day, that he'd seen a white cloth. That was reported somewhere. So yes I'm proposing that it is possible that on day#1 he may have seen something else which was white, small, and totally unrelated to the case altogether.. might not have even been in the exact same place as the costume had been placed, because the cameras and the men on the ground were not close by any means.
Imho, I don't think it's fair to say
"He saw something within metres of the place (on a long walking route) that made him first stop and look, and then go back the next day to see what else was there." , and especially stated as fact. This was apparently a regular walking route for PS, so why *wouldn't* he have gone back the next day? It was also only the opinions of the officers involved, that PS was even looking at the same location where the costume had been placed.
Lia Harris
The court heard surveillance operatives noted in their report that “as far as they were concerned, Savage had stopped and looked at” the Spider-Man suit planted on the walking track the day before he reported it to police.
Beacroft testified that Jubelin had worked closely with a psychologist in regard to the spiderman costume 'sting'.. I'm assuming that may have involved gauging what certain reactions of PS might mean in that situation (all would still be opinions, regardless). I wondered what that same psychologist might opine about the (non)reaction of Chapman having seen the vehicles racing with the unbuckled Spiderman boy inside that morning, but not reporting it. Because isn't it really the same thing, only worse, since it happened right on the day OF, and RC was self-admittedly fully aware of the small town's big news of the little boy's disappearance just a few streets over? Except nothing is being made out of that non-reporting.
RC saw something of obvious evidentiary value and apparently went months without reporting what he saw, and finally apparently it was the police who came knocking on *his* door once they heard about it elsewhere - he reportedly never did make that call on his own. But yet here is PS who years later sees something that he likely knew hadn't been there previously on a path he regularly traveled on, and they're gauging his reaction, and making it seem somehow meaningful as to whether he called police about it and how quickly. He did report it. Maybe he guessed it was a 'sting'. My head sure would've been spinning thinking of all the possibilities, if it had been me.
My guess is that if GJ really thought PS did something to W, they may have been hoping PS might've picked up the costume, at which time officers would have tailed him, and perhaps he may have led officers to wherever he had hidden William. It was worth a shot, but when it didn't pan out, to then make a big deal about whether and when he called police about it, seems like a stretch. jmo.
(Lia Harris
Cunneen is now cross examining Det Sgt Beacroft. She’s asking her about the Spider-Man suit operation and the court heard Jubelin consulted “very closely” with a psychologist on that operation)
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