Everyone's opinion welcome, even mine I hope. I don't see anything to convince me that it's even a possibility that RL is BG. There is of course some distortion in that image, but to me, it looks pretty danged good, considering I believe it's from a long distance (jmo).
i)the build is completely different, some have mentioned RL's legs and hips being bulkier, but I believe he is bulkier everywhere
ii)his age; police have estimated BG's age to be what was it, 45ish? That is also how he appears to me as well. That is a good 30 years younger than RL, and imo, this can be seen in the face. The jowls. RL definitely has signs of aging.
iii)the gaits, as evidenced by the height the knees come up during walking, to me look completely different. (BG's knee seems to come up higher than RL's). Not only that, but when we view RL walking, as we have seen on camera a few times now, he is definitely spry and in great shape for his age, but he still doesn't have the gait of a 45 or 50 year old man, I can see him not being quite as steady and sure as a much younger man.
iv)obviously all of the clothing is different. Although the 2 may be wearing navy blue jackets, they are definitely not the same jackets.
It seems like maybe 77 isn't *that* old, but, when you think that the man is nearly EIGHTY, that is danged OLD! I hope I live to be that old! It just doesn't seem right, imho!!
When RL repeated for the reporter the words, 'down the hill', he has a definite accent.. this is what it sounds like to me, who doesn't have that accent around where I live, so it is definitely noticeable to me.. 'down the heeeoooww' (i'm exaggerating the 'oow', I'm sure he says 'hill', I'm just trying to write it like it 'sounds' to *me*). The voices are different, the gruffness, raspiness, etc. How many guys on whose property the dead bodies were found, would do that, on the news, just because some reporter asked them to repeat it? Talk about setting yourself up? It's only 3 words, and really, how different can one make them sound? Imo, no matter how he said it, people could construe it to sound like what they wanted. I'd hope the guy on the recording wouldn't offer himself up on a platter on television news like that when the stakes are so high (death penalty)?
My serious guess is that RL told police a lie to protect himself from prosecution because he was probably doing something like blatantly disregarding the conditions of his probation, for which, by the sounds of it, he may have been warned more than once before. He may very well NOT have been home, but said that he was buying fish, when in fact he was seen at a bar drinking, and then he'd already told police he had driven home, etc.. big mess, caught in a lie (about the driving perhaps).. LE may have heard from tips that he was seen drinking in a bar late that afternoon.. wouldn't surprise me at all.. and then LE is faced with, hmm, the guy lied, and he also broke his probation order, so let's put him in the slammer, teach him a lesson, since under the circumstances, it was terrible to tell that lie to save himself. That also gives LE time to figure this out, check him out, - they thought he had an alibi, and now that's out the window. They want to rule him out, or find evidence to pursue him further, neither of which seems to be happening yet. Did I hear something about a court date in early April? Could that be when the test results are expected to be back? (Say from forensically searching his truck for any hairs or fibers from the girls?)
If RL *could* have been released from jail, it's possible that his lawyer, or himself, didn't want him released until the evidence comes in to also clear him of this unrelated crime, so that he doesn't get brutalized because of all the people who now think he is responsible for this crime?
All moo!
