Tim's brother says the car was in good shape and was locked. If that's a picture of the actual car where it was found in the video, that doesn't look like the Valero parking lot. Maybe the Hi Mart or Save A Lot?
With the car being found locked, you may be right. If so, it would have been a quick, he had a work meeting at 7 or 7:30.
That's not really close in Dallas terms. It's only 11 miles and 12min as of this time of night, but with normal traffic during that time of day it could take 15-20 min to get there. I'm attaching a couple of satellite images of the area. Definitely not the kind of place someone from Uptown Dallas would be going - unless they were meeting a dealer maybe. Even that is hard to imagine. Note a few of things from the satellite pics:
The one thing that hasn’t been mentioned about this area is that there is also a bus stop right there.
Near the end... posted 10-30 7:58am
True to a point. I guess what I mean is if I was just thinking about a general radius of 10 miles in my head (car was south about 10miles, then off the highway west about a mile) - it doesn't sound like that big of an area to search. But when I think about what in reality is between here and there it feels gigantic and overwhelming. I live north of the LA Fitness he was last seen about 7 miles - so not quite even far enough to be at the outside of a 10mile radius, right? And the amount of....stuff, people, buildings parking lots, hidden places, not so hidden places... just everything from me to where the car was found, much less 10 miles to each side, it seems like a HUGE search area. Does that make sense?
That car would stick out like a wienermobile in that area! Does not seem like it could have been there long.
Locking the car is a habit you have if you are concerned about someone stealing it. A random car-jacker who dumps the car in a gas station with cameras and locks the door? You could be right.
