Part II of my catch-up journey observations. As said earlier, I am in the RA=guilty camp though believe there could be others in addition to him.
Camera at the Hoosier Harvestore
The Hoosier Harvestore camera near the trails has been often used as timestamp evidence for various cases to be made. All of KG, BB, SC and a car resembling one of RA's were spotted by this camera. While helpful in a general sense as to times in play, IMO it's meaningful to note as we nitpick over detailed by-the-minute times which have become quite important in this case that the camera (despite being near the Mears parking lot, the MHB, the CPS building, cemetary, etc.), obviously only notes what time the vehicle(s) passed the camera going in a certain direction - and we can only either extrapolate logic, assuming what happened or didn't happen after passing the camera, or rely on witness recall for other specifics. For example:
-- KG is reported by LE to have driven past the HH camera at 1:50 away from the Mears parking lot after letting A&L out of the car at the trails. That assumes she drove off immediately after the girls got out of the car, as 1:50 is being reported as the girls' arrival time as well (AffidavitSearchWarrant). Maybe she told LE she drove off immediately and that she recalled that correctly. However if hypothetically IMO she paused to watch the girls walk out of eyesight or talked a bit longer on phone to boyfriend before driving away, that could put the dropoff at 1:47-1:48 which might put the girls ahead of BB who arrived in the 1:47-1:48 time, thus eliminating the premise of BB being ahead of the girls....
-- BB is reported by LE to have driven past the HH camera at 1:46 heading in the direction of the Mears parking lot. Again the assumption IMO is that she started walking immediately at 1:46 also. However, what IMO if BB did some stretching before the hike, changed her shoes, put her purse in the trunk, took the car key off the keychain, and so forth as many exercisers do all of these? That would have her actually beginning her hike at closer to 1:48-1:49 which certainly is very close to when the girls also started their hike. Again, maybe BB has crystal clear recall about whether she started immediately or not, but remembering that it's reported BB hiked the 6-ish minutes out to the MHB start point plus halfway back before passing A&L, then we're left to grapple with how she covered 9-ish minutes of hiking while A&L only covered 3-ish minutes (halfway out only) when they likely began only 1 to 1.5 minutes apart.
-- SC is reported by LE to have driven past the HH camera at 3:57 before her witnessing of a man who looked like he'd been in a fight. This is the most straightforward one as there's no reason to imagine she pulled over or stopped the car before seeing him, thus reasonable to presume she passed him at 3:58-3:59 along the County Road.
-- RA is thought to maybe have passed the HH camera at 1:27, at least a car resembling one of the two vehicles he owned, traveling in the direction of the CPS building. It's not known IMO whether this vehicle stopped at CPS for sure or not, but the trial may clear that up. It's also not known whether RA exits this car immediately and begins his walk or pauses for whatever reason. Gray Hughes in his excellent timeline video (can't link any longer due to password-protect, so MOO) takes the liberty of having RA stay in his car for about 6 minutes after parking before exiting because... if he starts hiking sooner than that, especially at a brisk pace, he encounters the Freedom Bridge 4 girls at a different spot than where they both claim that encounter takes place. We don't know what really happened after 1:27 passing the camera IMO but it takes some reconciling.
I do think the defense will try to methodically pick apart this timeline minute by minute and I think if they do that well, the events can be jumbled enough to create some doubt of its accuracy in the mind of some jurors.
