ITA JW parked his BMW before the tape went up. But since it was an active firefighting scene, with fire trucks and LE vehicles packing the streets within a block of the house, IMO the questions are: 1) when did JW arrive 2) where did he park his car 3) how far away did LE tape off the crime scene. It has been reported that JW parked his car a block away. As with so much in this case, if it's a matter of semantics, perhaps the car was parked within a block.
The confusing part is that it appears that the crime scene tape wouldn't have been put up further away than the streets that were blocked by the firetrucks, etc. If JW was driving his BMW in Virginia and he received the call that the house was on fire, he would not have been able to arrive at the house before the firetrucks. So he would have had to park outside that area. How much further away than the area occupied by firetrucks, etc., did the crime scene tape enclose? From news footage of that day and after, it doesn't appear that the tape was placed an entire block away from the house. We can see where the street was blocked off at Woodland and 32nd during the fire. It is unlikely that the tape was placed beyond 32nd and Cleveland/Garfield (I know it wasn't later, because I drove by that intersection). I also don't think the tape stretched all the way to the intersection of Woodland and Garfield, but if so, would JW have been able to park within that area before the tape was placed, with all the vehicles there? If we could find out exactly where LE put up the crime tape that day, we would know better if it's possible that JW drove from VA after learning about the fire and was able to park within the area that was eventually roped off. If not, perhaps JW was not driving the BMW after dropping off the money that morning, but drove another car to Lowe's.
I've attached the map with what I think would be the outer reaches of where the crime scene tape would have been placed (yellow perimeter) as well as a link to the 20/20 clip so you can see how packed the streets were with firefighting equipment. [video=youtube;zM-8yplxtm0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zM-8yplxtm0[/video]
I wish Yepitsme would come back. I believe s/he was at the scene that day and could tell us when the tape was put up and how far it stretched.
) so I thought I'd throw it out there. I suppose I have a wild imagination and become more likely to make things up when confronted with months of no new information being released about the case.
