Okay, so I broke down the first portion of the symposium up to the point of the break:
The open of the conference, I heard a lot about the courage and suffering of the families. Shannan's little sister was there. JR began by noting the importance of evidence, talked a little bit about his nonprofit. Returned to evidence and the importance of the public to the investigation. While he has a lot of respect for the LE community, he does not believe they acted judiciously where this case was concerned. He had a video playing of RH's attorney, who also seems to believe SG was murdered.
JR gets into how he wanted to help out Mari Gilbert, who felt the "police had bungled the job." JR gets into how MG had to view the area where they recovered SG from Peter Hackett's deck. MG had already noted she thought PH should be a suspect. Discussion moves to James Burke, how he blocked the FBI from the investigation. Even before Burke was police chief, he was chief of detectives. He had a lot of control over this case. JR gets into the nasty exchanges he's had w/the Suffolk County PD.
Discussion moves to the day SG is going from Jersey City out to Oak Beach. JR continues she met MP, who JR says worked for a sex trafficking organization. Everyone would have known what was involved in this job in OB from the beginning, MP wasn't paying for gas & tolls all the way out to OB for $50. SG would have known what was going to go down this day at OB, what was going to be involved. But to this day, we don't know what the arrangement was, & LE doesn't know. If one "follows the money," there's no trail, & Brewer insisted there was no arrangement at all. JR continues the money in SG's purse doesn't reflect the amount of time she was at JB's house, like 3 hours. And then, he notes 3 hours-- that's a long time, and that's no "ordinary" call.
Then, JR gets into the trip to CVS. JB says he doesn't know why they went. MP says they went for lotions, I think condoms, playing cards. JR doesn't know what to make of the playing cards, says the other items would have already been in SG's purse. JR was unable to find out if they got a prescription at the CVS. After CVS, there's no idea where SG goes. Did she really go straight back into the house? Maybe not? At some point, though, she is inside, on the phone, and there's the struggle. JR gets into how JB did later admit he had sex w/SG. Once that happens, the escort gets the money and goes. So why 3 hours? JR plays the 911 call. "There's somebody after me." Repeatedly. Says at one point to MP, "Why are you calling me by my name?" Response/think MP: "What do you think?" SG: "Please stop it." ... SG (to Pak): "You've been part of this all along." MP (incredulously): "I just met him today." So JR notes something's going on there that should have been investigated, there is some backstory on this. SG: "These people are trying to kill me." MP (sounds like "roll of the eyes") "Shut up." Next clip is SG shrieking in terror. MP & someone else (?) said as she was running away she tripped on the stairs, but there's no sound of that on the recording. JR says you can hear man/men's voices other than JB or MP in the background at this point. JR notes the lack of police resources for this case early on, also all the maneuvering he had to get the 911 tapes. Notes at one point, MP & PH said SG hit her head, and this is evidently the source of the belief there was some "accident." In the struggle SG lost her earring near the stairs. JR says it was torn off.
Both Colletti and Brennan say SG had no purse on her person on the porches, and JR says Colletti wasn't too friendly to SG on his porch and never asked her in. Brennan says SG had no jacket. JR notes SG was not on drugs, doesn't sound like she is on drugs. She didn't go running into the impenetrable marsh. There's a long discussion about how light it would have been at this point for SG, too much light for her to have run accidentally into a marsh. JR expresses concern that PH never called the SCPD, and never called SG even though PH was supposed to be looking for her, and PH erased the OB tapes. This portion ends with a detailed discussion of how SG's case is not "different" from the other Gilgo cases, it's the same in that:
all victims found close the parkway/SG was remarkably close to the highway when they finally found her remains
all found in a marsh
all/most sex workers
all had missing clothing
all had missing possessions (SG ring gone)
all petite females
all between 22-27 yo (SG was 24)
all killed by homicide (the contested issue, Baden autopsy noted strangulation)
all had ties to midtown Manhattan
all had worked early morning hours