pittsburgh1
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In terms of finding a phone from the riverbed, I've metal detected around the banks in Pittsburgh and there is so much debris (rebar, wire, etc) that trying to find a phone would be almost impossible. Near the Clemente Bridge there isn't any shore, it just kind of goes straight into river from the sidewalk, so with all of the metal on the bottom of the river I think would be a very, very difficult task.
I just caught up after about a week, and am in agreement with the poster regarding the butt-dial to Dakota's dad. Is it the family that is assuming it's a butt-dial? Putting myself in their place I might think that rather than an accident, that instead he was trying to call for help and either not able to speak, too afraid to speak, or cut off before he could say anything. How long was the call for? Was it 10 seconds, or just immediately hung up on? Was his dad one of his recent calls, or would he have had to go to his contacts or scroll back in his calls to have called him (thereby reducing the chance that it was a random accidental dial).
Additionally, were there any other calls around that time? I'm sure this has been posted but I'm trying to catch up. The only time I accidentally call someone on my phone (smartphone, which I am sure he had) is when I am trying to call someone else and I accidentally hit the wrong part of the screen. I can't remember a time that I called someone by accident without realizing it or when trying to do something else.
Has the city tested each camera with video for accuracy? Story time: I served on a student judiciary in college, and we were part of a panel that would review cases where there was a breach of the university code. A foreign girl was accused of using another man's debit card to take out money from the ATM (he had left it in by accident). Law enforcement matched the time on the ATM video clearly showing her walking up at the exact time that the money was debited from his account. Clear-cut, right? She had even confessed! But she recanted and said she confessed because she was scared. I was extremely dubious.
HOWEVER, after probing a bit more, we noticed that previous video showed someone else using the ATM, and we couldn't find a record of it on the ATM withdrawal timesheet. Summary: the debiting record system and the ATM camera were off-sync by about 3 minutes, meaning that whoever used the man's card was there earlier than this woman. Her entire university career would have been over if we hadn't noticed. She would have been arrested, maybe deported. It was extremely sobering, first for realizing that this woman had made a confession when she clearly could not have taken the money, and also how many crime timelines have been incorrect and misleading due to several minutes' worth of difference.
It would be very easy to go to each camera and hold up a sign with the exact time on it so you can go through and compare the timestamp with your signs. I wonder if this has been done, and what it would reveal.
I just caught up after about a week, and am in agreement with the poster regarding the butt-dial to Dakota's dad. Is it the family that is assuming it's a butt-dial? Putting myself in their place I might think that rather than an accident, that instead he was trying to call for help and either not able to speak, too afraid to speak, or cut off before he could say anything. How long was the call for? Was it 10 seconds, or just immediately hung up on? Was his dad one of his recent calls, or would he have had to go to his contacts or scroll back in his calls to have called him (thereby reducing the chance that it was a random accidental dial).
Additionally, were there any other calls around that time? I'm sure this has been posted but I'm trying to catch up. The only time I accidentally call someone on my phone (smartphone, which I am sure he had) is when I am trying to call someone else and I accidentally hit the wrong part of the screen. I can't remember a time that I called someone by accident without realizing it or when trying to do something else.
Has the city tested each camera with video for accuracy? Story time: I served on a student judiciary in college, and we were part of a panel that would review cases where there was a breach of the university code. A foreign girl was accused of using another man's debit card to take out money from the ATM (he had left it in by accident). Law enforcement matched the time on the ATM video clearly showing her walking up at the exact time that the money was debited from his account. Clear-cut, right? She had even confessed! But she recanted and said she confessed because she was scared. I was extremely dubious.
HOWEVER, after probing a bit more, we noticed that previous video showed someone else using the ATM, and we couldn't find a record of it on the ATM withdrawal timesheet. Summary: the debiting record system and the ATM camera were off-sync by about 3 minutes, meaning that whoever used the man's card was there earlier than this woman. Her entire university career would have been over if we hadn't noticed. She would have been arrested, maybe deported. It was extremely sobering, first for realizing that this woman had made a confession when she clearly could not have taken the money, and also how many crime timelines have been incorrect and misleading due to several minutes' worth of difference.
It would be very easy to go to each camera and hold up a sign with the exact time on it so you can go through and compare the timestamp with your signs. I wonder if this has been done, and what it would reveal.