Some interesting discussion is going on in the Facebook group for Steven, and I figured I would cross-post some of those materials. A lot of this is from the police report issued by the St. George police department. Some people smarter than me have figured out some interesting things that makes it seem we were not told everything correctly by the police department until the reports were released.
First of all - the coordinates of the 8:52 AM and 10:53 AM calls on Dec 13. The coordinates are listed on page 8 of the St. George report. The first set of coordinates (35.257778, -115.075) returns to a place in Hart, California. The second set of coordinates (35.9672222, -115.181944) returns to the I-15 coming into Vegas. This shows that rather than coming in from the north to Las Vegas as we always thought he was, Steven had actually been in California and was coming from the south.
The other interesting thing is on page 5 of the St. George report - "The records indicated that the last out-going call from the phone occurred on 12/14/2009 at 8:04 hours. The call was to the phone number of (blacked out). It is not known who the call went to. The call only lasted 10 seconds. There are several incoming calls after that call, but no further out-going." Because this has elsewhere been reported as being at 7:04 AM, this leads me to believe the call occurred at 8:04 am MST (St. George time) / 7:04 AM PST (Las Vegas time). Traditionally, this has been reported as Steven checking his voicemail, but the police report shows that this isn't true. Furthermore, usual reports have said this was the last activity on his phone, but the report here says that further incoming calls came in after this.
Another thing I caught while perusing the St. George police report is something I didn't take notice of while first reading it through--on Page 3 it says "Deanne explained the landlord contacted a neighbor who informed him they saw Steven leaving his residence on the night of 12/12/09. The neighbor told the landlord that Steven told them he was traveling to Las Vegas."
This shows that Steven told someone he was going to Las Vegas (at least if we are to believe BB), and likely didn't return to his place after he left at around 10:30 pm on Dec 13.
All of this information changes the case. I never thought to check the coordinates, but now that they have been checked it's all rather strange. What was Steven doing in California? If he said he was going to Las Vegas, why is he down in California the next morning?
I'm going to keep combing through the police reports to see if anything else we know about this case is contradicted by what is in the police report.
Edit: BB's wife, known here as stillLooking and on the website (
Steve Koecher missing since 12/13/09! The family is offering a $10,000 reward for information leading to the resolution of the case.) I found this on as Nikayla, said this: "Someone used his phone to call a ATT voicemail retrieval to get messages, probably not his messages because usually it shows that you called your own phone number if your getting your own messages but it shows the call was entered as a generic voicemail retrieval number . That was on Monday 12/14/09. Now his phone is dead."
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