I was thinking today, how close do I need to be to provide for a tight alibi?
To leave my car at the parking lot and leave through the back door and use another car (or maybe the guy was driving a motorcycle? even a bike would do) is not a problem.
But the traffic in our area is horrible, so I could not drive 15 miles without being hopelessly stuck for 30 minutes. So for myself, I gave "no more than 5 miles from my work".
However, rural Indiana is not that congested. 10 miles could be easy. I think he might have used a motorcycle and parked the car at the front of (whatever building was supposed to provide the alibi). Or vise versa.
And, I think he is somewhat known to the people of Delphi. One thing I know, if a total stranger appears in a small rural area, he would draw attention. So he has to have been there and is not totally unknown to people, either lives there, or visits someone, anyhow, it is not an unknown face.
I even wonder if the assumed mistake that the police had made was too predictable, too common. Maybe they believed a too-believable alibi and checked it ("did you see such-and-such at work on February 13th? Oh, he was at work... Fine, thank you"). And perhaps they even saw the video showing the person entering the building at 8 AM and leaving it at 5 pm... from the front camera. And maybe there was a camera in the back of the building, and no one checked it, as the situation looked totally believable. And now the recording is long gone.
Or, the person says, "I was in the library, writing a paper", and they check the computer, and there is evidence of the paper being written, but the person changed the clock? I am thinking it could have been something like "playing game with my friends on my computer” (because to me he looks like he likes gaming), and it looks ok, but later they realized that he reset the clock? Or it was set for a different time zone? Something like it. Just an idea. MOO.
(When I post on some forums, the time always comes wrong, and I wonder if it could make or break my potential alibi. Probably the FBI would know, but the local police may not immediately think of it if their suspicion index re. me is low to start with).