mlhenn
Well-Known Member
- Joined
- Jul 11, 2019
- Messages
- 17,944
- Reaction score
- 79,303
Then...I am legitimately at a loss to describe how such a scenario could have unfolded - that his digital trail stops at that intersection but his phone wasn't turned off or in airplane mode. Something is not right. Something at the scene was misinterpreted or one of the given statements is factually wrong.
The only thing I can think of, which sounds absolutely ridiculous, is that the area between the car seat and center console is some kind of faraday cage. JL fumbled the phone at the intersection and it dropped through and he couldn't recover it, so his digital trail ends. Then, the impact of the crash shakes the phone loose out of that area, and the digital trail "picks up" again. (As KL was making phone calls in that area at around 6 a.m. we can infer that the crash site area isn't a dead signal zone.)
I can't even think of a scenario where JL might have done this on purpose, because his phone was in the car and he was not there at 12:31. If his digital trail had ended and his phone was nowhere to be found, I could faintly believe that there was foul play or he was trying to disappear. Unless, again, we go into high fantasy scenarios like that JL's digital trail did intentionally end, JL met foul play, and then his phone was later planted in the car.
I’m just as confused.
At first I thought LE’s choice of wording was ‘off’ and they meant until they can get more info with what Jason was doing on Snapchat at that time, that his digital footprint “ended” there...
But if that were the case, there still should have been phone pings during that 67 min window correct?