TIMELINE
QUOTE FROM KGW NEWS
On Thursday, Grandjean sketched out a timeline of the day Heichel disappeared. At 6:45 a.m, Heichel is believed to have left the Gresham apartment where she lives with her husband for her shift. Her drive to work should have taken just a few minutes.
When she didn't arrive, her manager tried reaching her on her cell phone. Then, the manager called Heichel's husband sometime after 8 a.m., although he did not know exactly when.
Pings should show where that phone was when it received the call from Starbucks. Pings should also show where Whitneys phone was all morning until it was turned off. It had to be turned off before it was tossed or else the girls who found it would have had to come up with a compatible charger. They didnt mention needing to do that.
LE says they know Whitneys vehicle was at Dodge Park and Larch Mountain (east of Gresham/Troutdale) prior to the next timestamp at the gas station.
Route from Starbucks (or could have been her house equally close by) to Dodge Park and then on to Larch Mountain (both places uncovered evidence that is currently mum)
http://goo.gl/maps/51Hph
Note in the above route that it takes just
21 minutes (10 miles) to get to Dodge Park and then it takes another
41 minutes (19 miles) to get to Larch because you essentially have to go back to central Gresham/Trouydale and go back out another way.
Route from Larch Mountain to Gas Station to McMenamins/TroutdaleTerrace shared field area (where the phone was found) and on to Walmart
http://goo.gl/maps/LHpZN
Notice how once you get back into the central area, points B (gas) to C (phone dump) to D (SUV Walmart) are
all very close together.
Here is a close up of tracing where the phone was found to where the SUV was found. This is the Route from Phone-found to Walmart where SUV was parked at rear lot backed up to bushes. (Note the phone was found behind the TroutdaleTerrace Apartments facing the field; the map pointer is over to the left of this on a private looking road across the field at McMenamins to show a place you could be to dispose of phone sight unseen)
http://goo.gl/maps/5OsVv
QUOTE FROM KGW NEWS
Meanwhile, at 9:14 a.m., Heichel's ATM card was used at a gas station at Southeast Stark Street and Southwest 257th Avenue. Police have interviewed the gas station attendant but declined to release details and employees declined to comment.
Clint Heichel also tried reaching his wife multiple times and then reported her missing to police at 9:56 a.m, Grandjean said.
At 11:17 a.m., Heichel's vehicle was left at the Wood Village Wal-Mart, according to surveillance video reviewed later by police. The vehicle would be found in the afternoon by friends and community members searching for Heichel.
SUMMARY TIMELINE
6:45am Left the house (alone or not; willingly or not)
7:00ish to 9:00ish am (SUV and/or Whitney and/or her phone) was east of Gresham/Troutdale at Larch and Dodge according to LE (didnt say how known: is it gps on her SUV; is it ping from her phone; is it visual sighting of her; is it ping from perps phone)
8:00ish to 8:15ish am Starbucks called Clint on his cell phone
Sometime after that Clint called Whitneys parents (from where, no one has said)
9:14am ATM card used at gas station (attendant uses card in the pump/no one goes inside)
Small amt of gas bought (this ensures attendant is quick and doesnt go to other customers)
Pumps work like RedBox (slide card, enter zip code, thats it; atm cards work like credit cards in the pump but are a debit; no pin required but zip code is)
No clear proof the attendant saw Whitney but if he did and she was in the car, she wasnt afraid enough of the driver to bail out of the car in this public place of potential freedom
Her phone ends up a mile away and her car just a couple more past that
9:56am Clint calls police
11:17am SUV left at Walmart (someone suggested perp exited rear window; escaping walmart cameras)
If we knew how LE knew of the 11:17am time it would tell us a lot; this is a big piece of the puzzle they have that we dont)
1pm Friends/Family spot the SUV at Walmart
5-6ish PM Subsequent day, her phone is found by girls exploring in the field behind Troutdale Terrace Apartments and adjacent to McMenamins (others on the first thread said Whitney was familiar with that McMenamins). That field has a private road you could get away with being on for a while sight unseen (it appears from the map anyway).
Although it could have been, if it
was a stranger, why would they need so badly to get back to the Gresham/Troutdale area? If you are going to Dodge and Larch why end up back in G/T and risk being seen? Why not ditch the car in a remote area since you have millions of deep woods acres to choose from? Why the need to be back in the central place of action so fast?
With the exception of the half hour drives out each way to Dodge and Larch, all of the other
interest points are in a tight circle. The home to work to the gas station to the phone field to Walmart all very
close and familiar.
Dont let the names fool you if one address says Gresham and one says Troutdale and one says Wood Village think of them as all the same because all of these apartments and businesses are close to one another. I lived in Gresham/Troutdale for 6 years before moving to Washington a few years ago (above Oregon). The Walmart in question is practically on the border of the two states. Oregon and Washington are separated at the north by the Columbia River which I-84 runs alongside.
I wonder if LEs emphasis two days in a row on the stranger (or not) aspect, is due to the above information. A reporter asked this morning if LE still wanted to stick to his comment yesterday about strangers to which LE said this morning "Stranger on stranger crimes are still rare today".
Here is a little more dialogue from this morning:
CURIOUS REPORTER
REPORTER: "Clint said on Tuesday that when he saw the surveillance video he saw somebody else in his wife's car. Why not release that video so that people can know
"
LE: "Well you're asking me to release video based on what you heard Clint say - what I'm telling you is that we aren't releasing the vid--- we haven't seen any video that would be useful to our investigation to release"
REPORTER: "Does that mean you haven't seen somebody else in her car"?
LE: "What it means is that we haven't - we're not going to release any video that is useful to our investigation"
REPORTER: "Are there any persons of interests identified"?
LE: "At this point there is no person of interest". (You have to watch him say it though - it seems to me there is a person - his pause and manor in his answer made me think they don't want the perp to know they are on to him)
The reporter then asked about his (LE's) comments the day before about stranger crime - to which LE replied -
LE: "Stranger on stranger crimes are still rare today".
REPORTER: "Clint had mentioned early on to us that Tuesday was his day off and so he went back to bed after Whitney left. Do you happen to know where he works? What he does for a living"?
LE: "I heard it mentioned - but I don't remember where he works. Again - that might be a question for Jim"
The above transcript is mine taken from a local TV station that I get on cable where I am so I dont have the web link.
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But I wondered if the reporter's interest was based on the press conference the day before.
Go to yesterday's presser:
http://www.kptv.com/story/19838032/gresham-woman-missing-police-consider-it-suspicious
Open it to full screen, start at 21:25 and do slo-mo when you get to 21:58 for the next 20 or 30 seconds.
EDIT:
Someone just astutely pointed out that the video is gone. It is still there but they have hidden it. You have to look below the current top video and look at the gray box area. Then you need to slide over to the right like a video gallery. When you see the 24 minute video, that is the one I am referring to as yesterday's full presser.
You don't have to be in slow motion to see it or hear it. You can easily see it in normal mode too but it's helpful to slow it down upon replay. Only reporters in front could see this (family and LE were behind or to the side of the speaker; you can see Whitney's dad sitting down behind the podium). I noticed some other news outlet camera angles didnt catch the presser scene this way. In some, you cant see Whitneys dad and mom grieving behind the podium because they are hidden. In the presser link above, you get a much better view of Whitneys poor dad during this.
I think that presser is why the reporter asked his questions the way he did this morning to LE - regardless if any of it has merit or not - it made sense to ask those questions.
I hope we get some additional information about Whitney at the 5pm presser today.
She is without a car and without a phone and most likely without money. I wonder what all was found at Dodge and Larch - such as personal items or clothing or things from her vehicle. It is tragic to think of her so vulnerable out there. Kyron was never solved - I sure hope Whitney has a more favorable outcome than that case has had so far. So sad!