Sorry if all this has been posted before - just thinking outloud
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SHERYL MCCOLLUM, CRIME ANALYST:
It also appears from the damage to the phone that it was thrown from the driver`s window, as well. That phone is going to be critical, Rita. It`s going to have text messages, it`s going to have voice messages and possibly video.
This just adds more weight to the fact it was dumped asap rather than placed for later.
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MARC KLAAS, KLAAS KIDS FOUNDATION: Yes, that`s exactly right, Rita. And in fact, the phone was found a half a mile in the direction opposite of her bus stop. So it`s not a direction that she would have gone.
It seems as though somebody might have is thrown the phone out of
a moving car. I do not for one moment believe that this girl has disappeared on her own. I suspect that she is probably the victim of foul play.
COSBY: Crime analyst Sheryl McCollum, what do you think?
SHERYL MCCOLLUM, CRIME ANALYST: It also appears from the damage to the phone that it was thrown from the driver`s window, as well. That phone is going to be critical, Rita. It`s going to have text messages, it`s going to have voice messages and possibly video.
COSBY: Great point. Sheriff Laurie Smith -- and I think Sheryl just hit on some great points. Let`s first walk you through any messages on the phone. You can check right now. You`ve already probably had the phone records in your hands.
SMITH: Yes, we do have the phone records in our hand. Another thing that we`re doing is checking for fingerprints on the telephone. The telephone did have some scratches.
We don`t know if it was done -- if it was thrown out of the car. We don`t know if the scratches were there before.
But we have all of the phone records, text records, and we have that released through the phone company, also. So we have a lot of technological resources. And we`re pursuing all areas, including FaceBook, Twitter, all other electronic and social media. It`s been a tremendous help."
http://edition.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1203/20/ng.01.html
May just be me but why THE car? You would surely say a car, like Mark Kalss did. That sentence seems odd like they start to say something then change what they are saying. Probably nothing
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JOSE CARDOZA, SPOKESMAN, SANTA CLARA SHERIFF`S OFFICE: But there was a bag, specifically a Juicy purse, a Juicy bag belonging to Sierra LaMar that was found Sunday about 1:00 PM. Members of the sheriff`s office search and rescue team found this Juicy bag belonging to Sierra.
Inside the bag was some of Sierra`s clothing, a pair of pants and a T- shirt neatly folded, neatly put inside this bag. This bag was located on Santa Teresa (ph) Boulevard in Laguna, which is within a couple of miles of Sierra`s mother`s house.
The reason the information wasn`t immediately made available to the public was because we had to confirm that the clothes did belong to Sierra, and we had to do some further investigative follow-up on that.
Through confirmation from Sierra`s family and through some of the investigative efforts, we have now confirmed that those clothes and the bag did belong to Sierra.
But later on in the interview Nancy grace asks
GRACE: OK. Have police told you what the clothes were in her pocketbook?
LAMAR: No. No.
GRACE: OK. What do you make of the clothes being neatly folded into that Juicy couture pocketbook?
LAMAR: You know, I have -- I have no idea as far as the contents or anything like that. And so I`m not going to guess, you know, but I...
GRACE: Got it.
LAMAR: Truthfully, I have no idea. And I don`t want to jeopardize the investigation...
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1203/23/ng.01.html
The mother may have identified the bag but not the clothes. She didn't know what clothes were in the bag. How else would the police determine they were her clothes? Forensic testing? was something found on them? Just makes me wonder why they wern't shown to the mother to identify.
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