leafygreens
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I have always thought he saw them at Waffle House, and that is what I am sticking to until I am proven otherwise. :loser:
As for the confusing timing... Maybe it (JH's car) "arrived in the parking lot prior to the victims" and kind of drove around looking..... BUT did not actually PARK until he saw them go around back - parked, got out and ran back there..... Just a thought?
Edited to add: Just thought of something else - this could go well with your King Road entrance theory. JH maybe ALSO came in from King (this would be the most logical entrance, since the high school is right there - they definitely know that entrance is there and are familiar with it). There's a clearing in the woods that I have heard teens "hang out" at and smoke after/before school. Maybe they were headed there and realized they could be seen from the road there and kept going further back. Anyway, So JH arrived from King Rd. before them.... drove around the lot looking around, waiting for them to arrive. JH saw them pull in from King, went to the OTHER side of the parking lot and parked - thinking they definitely would not see him sneaking up on them from there..... make sense?
Yes, I was also thinking what if JH came in by King Road. There is a small parking area in the very back of the Publix lot on King Road, that I don't believe would be visible by surveillance. From that spot, the grass mound isn't blocking the view and you can definitely see who would be going in. So JH could have waited there until he saw them coming in, then moved his car to the front of the Publix lot, into camera view, making it look like he first arrived at that time. Then he could have walked around the building on the 92 side. But that throws off Bennett's timeline a little, since she said he was seen parked there prior, just after 3:00.
Bennett said something else confusing. She said he parked in the Publix parking lot, making it sound like he was closest to Publix of all the other stores. But then another time she said he parked on the "side" of the building. There's no side parking on the 92 side. The building is right against the highway. The other "side" of the shopping center is on King Road next to other stores, not Publix. So I don't know what she meant by this?
Here's another theory that could fit Bennett's timeline. JH parked in the front Publix lot just after 3:00, in camera view. Then got out on foot and waited on the side of the building until he saw them driving in, then walked behind the store where he would have been on camera again. That could fill up all those missing minutes without him being seen or moving his car. There's no cameras on the ends of the shopping center on either end. Bennett said after JH is seen parked, that there is "movement" around the vehicle and you don't see him again until he is behind the Publix on foot. She was not clear where he was during the waiting minutes, so this could be a possibility, that he was parked and then waiting for them on foot.
Also there is the orange fence area that was set up in the Publix parking lot on August 3. I don't know why it was there, but it could have been to mark off where JH had been parked. That's why I have been picturing him parked there this whole time but I could be wrong about what the orange fence was for.