Haven’t seen his coworkers discuss him. Have I missed this? TYI’m surprised that more of his coworkers have come out and discussed him.
Haven’t seen his coworkers discuss him. Have I missed this? TYI’m surprised that more of his coworkers have come out and discussed him.
Haven’t seen his coworkers discuss him. Have I missed this? TY
Therefore, he was satisfied, in his mind, he was walking OFF the bridge toward BB. And not walking TOWARD to far end, never even considered it!
Looking at the BG video again it appears that the black item could actually just be a shadow from the brown hoodie. So you can just disregard my assumption about a gun holster atm.I am wondering if this black item emerging from the bottom of the brown hoodie is a gun holster. Looks like one to me.
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I don't think he wanted to park at Mears carpark because everyone else seemed to do that. He needed to not be scene.Fascinating. It does seem odd that he never confirmed where he actually parked in his '22 interview. It also seems odd that he did not simply park at the Mears carpark seeing he drove right past it.
I had also not appreciated he parked behind the old building
I don't think he wanted to park at Mears carpark because everyone else seemed to do that. He needed to not be scene.
He parked in backwards. As a witness said "it felt like he was hiding his back plates." Which tells me he didn't go there to kill himself. He hid his plates to do something illegal. M00
M00 on why he never confirmed where he actually parked in his '22 interview, was because the next question would be "why"..... "No one parks there it's too far away, why did you park there?
omg this is good! BBMCriminals always know what they know and don't know what they don't know.
He knows he was there, knows that's him in the photo. We know the juveniles took photos and BB may have too, iirc. Entirely possible that RA saw them with their phones.
I don't think he ever saw Libby's phone. The photo she took of Abby didn't contain RA so he was too far away to see a phone. If Libby started to record a video of Abby crossing the final leg of of the bridge, RA would suddenly have come into view, she moves the phone down, it continues to record, RA never sees it.
So.... this is RA telling on himself. He sees in the photo he's on the bridge. It "couldn't be" the second time he was on the bridge because there was no one besides the girls around and they're dead so "it had to be" from his first time on the bridge, to his thinking. Therefore, he would have (wrongly) reasoned, it was BB who took the photo. His brain must have locked in on that. So, in that way, in his head, he was walking toward BB (hence he could day he never went past the first platform, never crossed the bridge, never went out over the bridge-bridge because he was "certain" there were NO (living) WITNESSES who could place him on the bridge. Therefore, he was satisfied, in his mind, he was walking OFF the bridge toward BB. And not walking TOWARD to far end, never even considered it! This shows the limits of his reasoning! Knowing what he knows -- about who could have seen him where -- he did NOT try to identify where he was on the bridge and work from there; rather, he started with WHO he could have seen him. That leaves BB. Never challenged his own thought process IMO, was confident that photo was taken the first time he was on the bridge, believing NO ONE (alive) new about his second crossing. This much then is true: he walked out to the first platform and no further, walked back toward BB enough to see she was leaving, did or didn't see sit on a bench, conveniently committed seeing Abby and Libby and letting them pass by him so he could follow them.
His actual brain freeze came out during that interview just prior to his arrest -- whoa. Thst not me if it came from the girls' camera because (subtext) no one was supposed to know I crossed the bridge. It's only me if it's from my 1st platform walk. Doh.
He walked right into it.
JMO
M00 on why he never confirmed where he actually parked in his '22 interview, was because the next question would be "why"..... "No one parks there it's too far away, why did you park there?"
Yes, you are right..I think RA didn't want to say exactly where he parked to Liggett and Mullin in 2022 because LE had been asking the public for help in 2019 in relation to a driver of a car parked at the abandoned CPS building the day of the murders'.
i do wonder why RA did not testify
When Tammy Moore testified it sunk her. When Jody Arios testified it sunk her. When Murdaugh testified it sunk him.i do wonder why RA did not testify
But I do wonder if it would have helped him if he took the stand and talked to the jury about his 'false' confessions. If he could have convinced them that he was having delusions about being guilty because he read Discovery, etc?Respectfully, there is nothing he could have said on the stand to get him out of what he said when he tipped himself in the day after the discovery of the bodies and what he stated to Dan Dulin two days after that.
Edited: It was actually two days after the discovery of the girls' as it was February 16, 2017 when RA first tipped himself in. Which happened to be a day after the release of the still shot of "BG" from Libby's cellphone video.
On February 15, 2017 at 7:00 p.m. is when LE released the still frame picture of BG and asked the public's help in identifying the man. They just want to talk to him no mention of him being a suspect.
On February 16, 2017 is when they set up a tip line and RA gives his tip.
On February 18, 2017 RA talks to DD.
On February 19, 2017 LE say they consider the man in the picture a suspect in the crimes.
It's so frustrating how this case could have been solved within a week of the crime had someone not misfiled/cleared the tip and instead LE followed up with RA. SMH.
I'm coming in late to this, but wanted to offer a possible scenario.Would that check list apply if he was outside of the lead agency tasked with following up tips/leads and not investigating a crime scene? I honestly don’t know- DD corrected the name mistake and turned his notes to the investigators after the brief interview- I’m confused how it was marked cleared and misfiled again under the wrong name of the original tip sheet-
None of this impacts my beliefs around guilt or if RA=BG - jury found him guilty- that’s settled at this point
but it really is mind boggling that RA said he was on the bridge and saw 3 girls at the time of the murders - DD gave this information to investigators within days of the murder- and not only was it not followed up on, it was marked cleared by someone other than DD and misfiled by someone other than DD - I don’t know what DD’s mandate or scope was -
I have a hard time blaming him and with the oops, stuff happens, humans make mistakes, type explanations of LE investigators making that level of multiple errors that early in the investigation-
As I see it had investigators done their job early there mightn’t have been 5 more years of time, money, resources spent while generating thousands of leads and tips and boxes and boxes of files for later - hopefully lessons were learned- all my own opinion
Personally of all the things that RA did that I find incriminating, this isn’t one of them- I don’t like police cars in my driveway, neighbors gossip -
I don’t like going downtown to police headquarters, people want to know what you’re doing down (or what you did…or what your family member did…)
Fostering justice involved teens provided ample experiences of both- and I handled as much by phone as possible - at one point a realtor who was showing a house across the street, fudged a bit and told the family it was “fine” because we had LE in the family and it really was a safe neighborhood after the questioned the marked car in our driveway…
Thinking about it, I’d probably want to meet in a neutral location, especially in a smaller town, and it would look like a friendly encounter vs tabloid fodder …
I think at times our beliefs about guilt become the lenses through which we see everything, and in hindsight everything points to our conclusions- and some actions which might be actually normal/ typical for lots of people, regardless of guilt of a crime, are interpreted as signs of guilt … moo
100%WRT mis-filing, wouldn't it make sense for all LE to earmark any tips, interviews with witnesses, etc. who were near the crime scene or in contact with victims, etc? Mark those as high priority, regardless of whether they are "cleared". Sort through them and revisit them regularly. No LE investigation should consider filing away a witness statement from someone who was at or very close to the crime scene around the time when the crime was committed.