Very interesting point!! Exactly what made them call BG a FIRM suspect that they didn't have off phone from the very start????? Any ideas???
Sorry as I just popped on and know I have more to read to catch up but I saw the original post you're replying to last night and was thinking this too.
My original thought when they changed BG from just someone they wanted to talk to, to a suspect, the main suspect was simply that they were initially trying their luck at getting BG himself or whoever knew him to come forward. Like initially they were so careful to say they just wanted to talk to him and all, seems like the hope was that by not using the word suspect it'd seem like less of a big deal for someone to identify him? Maybe they even hoped to hear from him perhaps? (I know I've seen enough true crime to know some killers have contacted police on their own, but I don't know).
Anyway, initially that's just what I thought with this and never put much more thought into it (granted at the time we, the public, did not yet know the photo was from LG's cell phone either so the OP who brought this up has a great point!) I have to say too, and maybe this is a combo of hindsight and just how much time has passed now, five days does not seem like very long. Makes me question then if not calling him a suspect at first was not an intentional thing as I thought.
As far as the theory that was discussed on maybe they didn't have the audio yet... worth saying especially when leaving a recording going for awhile I've seen phones screw up in compressing video (maybe compression isn't the issue. I admit I don't know the lingo either but tends to glitch up as the video saves) so the audio and images end up being off. Or maybe if the phone was placed into her pocket they were unable to hear the "down the hill" or whatever else very clearly initially. Like maybe things were muffled plus the sounds of walking around and the leaves and all so perhaps they had to do some isolation work on the audio to even make things out clearly? This is all MOO, of course.
Going with that point I'm of two minds on the audio- I want to say that from the time of my first iPhone about 8ish years ago I've been able to use my phones to record loud concerts. The audio on phones tends to be much better than the video/photo side of things, believe it or not (perhaps because the audio stuff is important for the phones quality on calls?) But you'd be amazed what a reasonably good quality recording I can pull from a phone at a big concert venue sounds like. Sounds as good as any "bootleg" (if you're old enough to remember folks selling bootleg recordings of their favorite singers and bands concerts!) recording I've heard. So the audio capacity at least on an iPhone or similar is surprisingly good even when say at a concert you have people talking or singing along or screaming, I still get good recordings. So... knowing that I'm not sure I buy into the thing with audio but my other point would be that most phones have their microphones near the bottom where you'd speak into on a call. (As far as I know. iPhone does) so if she were to put the phone into her pocket and she didn't tip it upside down then yes, it's not hard to block the microphones on these. I know it's something Apple specifically has improved upon because in older Apple phones people had issues being heard while talking depending on how they held their phone. Worth saying whenever I've recorded a concert or some other audio on my phone I left the phone out and on something stationary. Actually, just remembered, I recorded a couple of doctor's visits recently and had nowhere to put my phone so I had it in my lap. I was nervous and fiddled with it. The phone running against my clothing definitely did make the doctor speaking three feet away from me hard to hear. So there you go, and that was on the latest iPhone.
Anyway sorry to ramble. I have had different experiences recording things with my phone and worth saying I have no idea if using the camera on the phone differs because all of the above was discussing using just audio recording without video (like using the VoiceMemo app on iPhone. iPhones have always come with that installed though also worth saying I've owned other phones even in recent years that did not come with any app for recording just audio preinstalled and we know too that Libby apparently took video.)
So all MOO and just personal experience.
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