On thread 1 I think it was, I did a little digging on all things pinging and phone masts and, whilst I certainly don’t claim this to 100% expertise so please DYOR and corroborate, I found a few techie articles from 2019 (so fairly contemporary in terms of tech/infrastructure) that explained a phone will ping its closest tower each time some activity is performed (like a call, message, data transfer like using the web). If the device moves, then it will look for the next closest mast and a handoff occurs. If masts are not spaced together well enough in certain areas, this is how you can experience momentary drops in signal strength. If there is no activity, a device will sit idle and not ping the same mast again for around 8 hrs...
So where am I going with this? It’s possible that SE’s phone was not switched off or ran out of battery at 9:28/30pm. Or, indeed, taken care of by one or more perps in a seamless action of also attacking/subduing her. It may have instead simply fell or been discarded down a drain, where it sat performing no further activity until its battery did run out. Crucially, its absence of activity wouldn’t have caused another ping past 9:28/30. Nor would it moving to another area cause a further ping on another mast after 9:28/30.
Likewise, if SE’s phone has been with her all along, either abducted with her into Poynders Court or she went willingly, if she performed no further activity on it, it may not have pinged Clarence Ave again until the early hours of the next morning, by which point the battery may well have died.
This essay, whilst the technical detail should be corroborated further please, is meant to suggest that it’s possible that SE didn’t have a particularly low battery (just less than 8 hrs), and so maybe JL wouldn’t have been made aware of a low battery issue for the ending of the call, and that a perp didn’t necessarily do something with the phone at all. All it might have taken for 9:28/30 to have seemed her final moment is a lack of further phone activity and movement from that area. She could have perhaps been in Poynders Court willingly for some time.
All speculation.
