Forgive me for asking what may all ready be in some report somewhere, as I've only started reading a few articles on these last couple pages (mostly mired in other threads on here!). My question involves these accounts:
"The crime was reported about 12:15 p.m. Saturday, when Leila’s parents phoned 911 dispatchers, according to the Sheriff’s Office.
The parents were
at a baseball game when their 12-year-old son called to tell them an intruder was in their home, Sheriff’s Capt. Jim Macedo said.
The boy briefly pursued the intruder, who then fled the home, Macedo said.
When the boy went to check on Leila, who had been in a different room, he found she had been stabbed.
Dispatchers then called the boy at home, but details of the conversation are not being released.
Several sheriff’s deputies arrived at the home along with emergency responders. A California Highway Patrol helicopter flew from Sacramento to Valley Springs to search for the intruder.
Leila was taken to Mark Twain Medical Center in San Andreas, where she was pronounced dead at 1:01 p.m., according to Calaveras County Coroner Kevin Raggio."
http://www.uniondemocrat.com/News/Local-News/Kidnap-suspect-eyed-in-Fowler-case
Can someone please tell me approximately how far away from the Fowler home the ball field is? Where the rest of the family attended the Little League event? Tia
I am pretty sure that this is the Little League that serves Valley Springs:
http://foothillslittleleague.com/
There are three fields for the games; They are 19 miles, 23 miles, and 17 miles from the Fowler home.
Christy Lawson lives three doors down from where Fowler was killed and said she witnessed a harrowing scene at about noon Saturday.
Lawson said a man who she believed to be Barney Fowler, Leila’s father, came to the edge of her driveway.
“He was white as a ghost,” she said. “He had blood on his shirt, her body imprint was on his shirt, like you could tell he was cradling that little girl.”
“He said, ‘Have you seen anything?’ I said, ‘No.’ I said, ‘Is she OK? Is she OK?’” Lawson recalled. “He said, ‘No. She’s not OK.’”
So, here are my questions, based only on my attempts at logic and sorting out the shoddy reporting from accurate reporting:
about 12 PM - son calls parents at ballgame to report an intruder (they have a cellphone)
12:15 PM - parents call 911, presumably while enroute to home
about 12:25-30 PM - parents arrive home
(ballfield = 17-23 miles away, even if driving 55-60 mph=20+ min. drive)
So...why would the neighbor report seeing a bloody-shirted father at her driveway asking "did you see anything?" at
"about noon"? At noon he was reportedly at the ballgame, prior to 911 call recorded at 12:15. Upon their arrival back home at about 12:30, investigators and medical staff would all ready have been there doing their own investigation; even if that neighbor got her time wrong, I would expect the parents would quickly be headed to the hospital with their daughter rather than running around the neighborhood bloodied and looking for a suspect.
Just looking for some facts to latch onto, here.
