It could be more difficult if only two towers are nearby, like Spartanburg Sheriff Chuck Wright said was the case when searching for [KB].
Having two nearby towers versus three would likely provide a larger search area based on where the towers' signals overlap, Miliefsky said.
“So there are various different technical ways that a cell phone could be sending various messages over a short period of time, these sort of signaling messages, to multiple towers,” Gillula said. “That’s likely how they figured it out.”
Brad Whitfield, an Anderson investigator who focused on obtaining and analyzing [KB]’s cell phone records, said it was a process of narrowing down the location of [KB]’s cell phone pings to the Woodruff property.
