Near the NW entry? Where you have placed the glass prize display in the main hallway across from the aquarium?
Yes.
This screenshot is from the video posted on page#1 of thread#45. SP is shown beginning at about the purple table. This is an untouched MPD product.
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Yet NBC DFW offers this 7 second video of SP without the blackout letterbox at the top of the screen.
Here is a screenshot. That camera (inside the SW porte cochere entrance facing north) has a range all the way down the main hallway, past the glass prize display case, and even out the NW doors. How could there have been a struggle there not on camera?
Two terms to remember here: Field of view, and motion detection region. The field of view is how far and wide the camera can see. The motion detection region is the physical area In Front of the camera that will trigger the camera to activate when movement is detected there. In the example you’re giving, the camera’s field of view extends all the way down to the end of the hallway. But as you’ve noted, the motion detection region only extends to about where that purple table is.
So, just as an example, Missy walks in and the camera detects her in the region and starts recording. It’s going to record everything in its field of view to the end of that corridor. If she walks straight north, she will pass the purple table. At some time after that, since there is no further movement IN the detection region, the camera will shut off. It doesn’t matter if there’s a struggle going on at the other end of the hallway. So yes, it’s possible for the struggle to not be on camera. The suspect may or may not have been visible down at the end as Missy passed the table (police never said that Missy and SP were not on screen at the same time). Does that make sense?
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Police Release New Information in Midlothian Murder Investigation
"... Police said the motion-activated surveillance cameras did not record any interaction between Bevers and the person. ...
... "There’s one surveillance camera where you can see the car in the far corner of the frame, parked in the distance. You can't make out a plate, and we're not even comfortable releasing anything about a possible make or model,” Johnson said. ..."
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In this thread page#17 post#331, I posted that MB disappears from camera view at that point where SP appears - but I was using that repeatedly posted letterbox version of the video, not the whole view version that has a range to the NW doors.
Is it true then that the only camera capable of seeing a car parked in the distance is this same view out the NW doors, to the parking lot mostly hidden by trees near the picnic area? Then SP did not park outside the NE doors behind the building. And if there is a partner-woman-lookout-getaway driver in the passenger seat with a walkie talkie, then that passenger saw MB's truck swing into CCoC and warned SP. Does this mean SP had plenty of advance warning and time to escape out the kitchen door to their car while MB drove to the right and parked her truck, opened the SW porte cochere doors, walked into the main hallway? Instead of leaving SP chose to stay and lie in wait for MB.
One other item that bothers me is that SP is outfitted as police #1 so that he can bluff his way out if confronted. Why not take charge verbally and direct MB back to her truck? MB would obey authority, a police command to return to her truck.
Being dressed as LE does not mean a person is ready to ACT like LE would.