I think it makes a difference because people are calling into question Sherri's account of how she was released and where. And the dispatch audio does not match up with what SCSO said about where she was located. It is technically possible for both the CHP dispatch audio and SCSO to be correct, but only if you ignore the part about her being on foot after she ran from the church. As I said in a post above (#212), IF the dispatch and SCSO are both correct and SP was located at the interchange South of the one near the church (the one that would actually be South of Yolo), THEN there is a big problem with the story. It would mean that SP somehow traveled 1.5 miles in only 7 minutes. That's only possible if she had a vehicle to transport her down the road.
I think it is most likely the dispatch was incorrect about the interchange where she was located (EMS would have just continued 1 mile north on I-5 until they found her) and the SCSO description updates that info to try to make it clearer. But yesterday I finally saw why people are arguing so passionately about the distance and the location where she was found. I didn't get it before. I see the issue now and can see a theory that explains it all. Here is what I was hinting at in my previous post:
Maybe whomever held her and beat her up for 22 days was still hanging around after dropping her off. Maybe they dropped her off within running distance of the church on purpose thinking this would make a great story-- "Supermom Found at Church on Thanksgiving". She runs to the church (as she is seen doing on the video) and it is actually dark and empty, no help there. No one to "discover" her. So maybe she runs back toward the road and the vehicle that dropped her off is still there waiting to see if SP got found. Person in vehicle takes her down the back road that runs parallel to the Interstate (Cacheville Rd) looking for another place to drop her off. But there is nothing else along that road. So maybe they decide to drop her at the next interchange and let her out near there to flag down someone on I-5. Sherri is immediately found on the northbound on ramp of I-5 and South of Yolo. Dispatch calls it in and the SCSO press release is still technically correct:
https://www.co.shasta.ca.us/index/sheriff_index/press_releases.aspx
Now, although I can see this as a possibility, I think it is unlikely. For one thing, I don't think LE is stupid. They would have figured this out right after she was found. It would mean they either figured it out and didn't challenge her on it for almost a year or they didn't put it all together for almost a year of investigating and talking to SP on a weekly basis. And then LE decided to release this video with the info that she was found 7 minutes after running to the church as some sort of message. People who think SCSO is playing games and "sending messages" to the Papinis with their press releases might say LE did that to make them realize what they know-- that it's not possible for her to have run that far in 7 minutes. But which scenario is more likely? That SCSO is playing games with their wording of the press release OR that the dispatch operator (who was not on the scene but was relaying info from those who were) was incorrect about exactly where SP was located? I think the later, more detailed info, given by SCSO is more likely to be correct. I think it is MORE likely she was on foot for those 7 minutes and was located at the I-5 interchange near the church (technically not south of Yolo but still in Yolo/near Yolo). And it makes sense that dispatch may have been off on this detail, IMO. People driving on I-5 would have been the first source of information for where they were located when they called in about Sherri. The callers driving may have last seen signs for Yolo and figured they were somewhere South of Yolo. Although, technically, when we look at a map the interchange near the church it is not geographically South of Yolo, I believe that saying that location was South of Yolo could have made sense to someone driving on I-5 and it did not impede CHP and EMS from finding her. All JMO.
Despite all this, I remain :fence: as to what happened prior so SP getting dropped off.
Sorry for the :worms:.
Just my :twocents:.