I've been taking a close look at the official timeline, with a focus on 2 areas that the defense will try to argue, specifically time to commit the murder and timing around finding the bodies and calling 911.
I believe that AM had time to commit the murders before leaving for Almeda and I believe that his description of coming across that bodies and calling 911 is not believable.
Let me know if you see any flaws in my thinking below.
Timing:
- 19 seconds to arrive at scene and then call 911 per OnStar: Defense has said that 20 seconds is a long time…plenty of time. My fastest estimate is 30 seconds - see below - and that doesn't include actually taking a pulse, just looking for where to take a pulse.
- park and get out of car - 2 sec
- run to PM, glancing over at MM - 6 sec
- check PM (take in scene and consider taking pulse; try to turn him over; try to take pulse; phone pops out; pick up phone and try to 'do something' with it; put phone back down on Paul; take one last look) - 9 sec
- Run over to MM - 4 sec
- Check MM (take in immediate scene; check for pulse) 7 sec
- Get phone out and dial 911 - 2 sec (presuming not left in car)
- Total fastest time: 30 seconds
- My Conclusion: AM could not have stumbled across the bodies and do everything he said he did before calling 911. It implies that he saw the dead bodies prior to this, because he had killed them.
- In contrast to the "20 seconds is a long time" opinion by defense, defense says time for AM to have committed the murders and departing for Almeda was too short a time. [My presumed available time is 15 minutes (i.e. between 9:51 and 9:06). My quickest estimate for shooting/cleaning up/leaving is:
- Shoot Paul twice, including waiting for him to stumble forward (10 sec)
- Pick up 2nd weapon and chase MM (10 seconds)
- Shoot MM 5 times in fairly quick succession, allowing for MM to stumble (10 seconds)
- Put weapons down; walk to hose; quick rinse off of legs, feet, hands, arms; hang hose up (60 seconds)
- Wrap up guns in raincoat; put shoes, shirt, pants in cooler; put things in vehicle (ATV? Golf cart?) ( 60 seconds)
- Fiddle with Maggie's phone (30 seconds)
- Drive to house (ATV/cart) and transfer raincoat/cooler to SUV (60 seconds)
- Go in house and do quick shower. Put on t-shirt/shorts. (4 min.)
- Phone Maggie. (18 sec) - walking downstairs
- Call Randy (18 sec) - walking outside
- Go to SUV and start up. (15 sec)
- Total quickest time: 9 minutes
- My Conclusion: AM had enough time to clean up and head to Almeda