I think they WEREN'T going to do anything. It was about appearances. Remember the slammed-down subpoena? Theatre.
The so-called impeaching was over the ATMs, which the defense wanted badly to seem like physical work on physical machines and locations anywhere but near MHB.
Instead we learn it's something BW did on his own time, and largely by computer.
His original interviews were later clarified. He did no physical servicing of physical ATMs that day.
That 2:44 footage already has an authentication problem. Am/pm. So... if it's 2.44 am (assuming it's not also off by matters of minutes), maybe the defense wound it forward and it's the pm of the day before (I don't know what his normal work schedule was, whether he did or didn't work on Sundays).
The defense was trying to make a mountain out of a molehill air. Trying to suggest that BW was lying, that there's no confession in Ricky's admission.
BW and Ricky are both agreed. BW arrived during the commission of Ricky's crime. Before or after the creek crossing changes nothing. If Ricky forced the girls to wash in and cross the creek, he's not going to admit to that. In fact, didn't he say that's why he didn't R them? Because of the arrival of the van? Regardless BW and Ricky authenticate each other. Plus/minus 2:30.
That's the confession.
Ricky didn't leave at 1:30. Ricky didn't leave at 2:15. Ricky was there, under the bridge, when BW arrived home, directly after work. Ricky was the only man on and under the bridge to be filmed by Libby at 2:13/:14 and was still there when BW arrived home, all within minutes of Libby's phone ceasing movement.
There was no bombshell testimony coming in. And the defense knew it. Nothing to impeach BW or they would have impeached him properly, while they had him on the stand, under oath. They didn't do that because they couldn't do that. There was nothing TO impeach, just additional clarification in his interviews over time.
If you ask me what time I got home and say, I clocked out at 2, ran an errand and got home after 2:30, then I check my phone and can narrow down my arrival to 2:38, the first statement is neither wrong nor a lie. The second statement simply fleshed it out.
2:44, if accurate and authenticated, is just as damning to Ricky as 2:28.
The Defense literally resorted to table thumping (with the subpoena) in a failed attempt to create noise as a distraction to the FACT that Ricky himself put himself under the MHB and in the area where Libby's cell phone stopped moving, under the body of a victim who died where she lay.
It's really too bad for the defense and their invention of an Odinistic ritual flopped. Their own defendant didn't see any of them while he was there.
He was the only man there. Based on witness testimony and corroborated by Ricky himself.
Case closed.
JMO
