I am not quite sure what you are saying. Since Haleigh was also seen again later by other people then she was very much alive at 5 pm when the AC maintenance man was at her home while her father was at work. If LE does not have a time line then how can they say the AC man had an iron clad alibi?
I'm not really sure what we're disagreeing about. I never attempted to imply that the AC man is a suspect in any way. He's pretty much the only person I don't suspect (but that might change if I saw him and didn't like him
) . I think he'd be a little stupid if he'd go and abduct a little girl he's seen the same day he's seen him so LE will question him for sure. Why not wait for a few weeks and nobody thinks of him any more? Anyway, did someone say his alibi is ironclad? I assume that he can have a pretty good alibi if his whereabouts were credibly accounted for for the whole afternoon, evening and night after Haleigh got off from school even if LE doesn't know exactly when Haleigh really disappeared and if a family member is lying.
I was simply making an observation that the way the article you quoted was phrased it couldn't be correct (assuming LE told the truth about not knowing when the crime was committed). The quote implied that the exact hour of Haleigh's disappearance on Tuesday the 10th was known and JM confirmed that the AC guy was questioned within an hour of it, but obviously that can't be true if Haleigh disappeared, say, an hour after Misty went to sleep at 10 pm. since they got the 911 call at 3:27. The police was there at 3:40 or so and it must have taken them a few minutes to round up the information about the AC guy and then some more to find him and confirm his alibi. So according to my thinking JM was confirming that the AC guy was questioned within an hour of Haleigh being reported missing but that in itself says nothing about when Haleigh was abducted or when another crime was committed against her.
If she was, say, hit on the head and died bleeding slowly much later, the timeline of becoming a victim of crime and the timeline of disappearing could be very different. The AC guy could easily have done it in a few seconds and been under surveillance cameras in his favorite bar the rest of the night, but then someone else must have hidden her body. Unlikely, I assume, unless they thought they would be blamed.
I believe if LE suspected that the time line wasnt after the AC man saw Haleigh then LE would have never ruled him out in the first place.
Not sure how you arrive at that conclusion. DO we know for sure that he saw Haleigh? Has his statement been published? Anyway, to my thinking it's the other way around. If the timeline was before the AC guy's visit he might be cleared because she was already missing before he ever heard of her but I assume that if the AC guy was involved the timeline would have to be after his visit. He would hardly have abducted Haleigh first and then arrived at her home to check the air conditioning, fully expecting for the police to be there, and the family would have called 911 if they noticed Haleigh was gone. (Then again, maybe Misty wouldn't, she didn't do it later at night...) But presumably they wouldn't be lying for the AC guy so if he took her Misty et al. must suspect somebody else did.
I believe LE questioned this man shortly after the 911 call was made declaring Haleigh missing.
Yes, that was my point.
I haven't seen any of the people who have said they saw Haleigh after she came home from school that day called liars by LE. They all seem credible imo.
What? How? Credible witnesses? Who?
-her father whose story has some inconsistencies (IMO) and who is in jail for drugs
-neighbors at the bus stop who dispute her father's account of picking her up
-her father's girlfriend who has lied and lied over and over again and is in jail for drugs
-the girlfriend's brother who is dishonest person judging by his criminal record and is in jail for drugs
-there are also accounts that the two former were under the influence that night
-her father's grandmother who is obviously an interested party whose story about the sighting was published 9 days later (we don't know if she told it to LE earlier) and who has changed her stories (IMO)
-an elusive aunt who was just alluded to and who we haven't heard from that I know of. Did she say she saw Haleigh at all? Is she credible? I have no idea.
-there may or may not have been some neighbors who saw her and they might be credible (or not).
Then there are Tommy's children and Jr. who I would trust the most, maybe. Children can be influenced by their parents and caretakers to say things that aren't true but I expect if Haleigh wasn't there that night they couldn't have been sure that one of the kids wouldn't blurt it out and they might have made up a different story.
IMO LE generally avoids calling people liars unless they're ready with their evidence to try and prove them so in a trial, even if they are liars.
That said, I do believe that Haleigh came home from school and must have been seen by SOMEBODY because IMO we would have met a different set of liars (maybe school staff, some older students, other students' parents) if she'd gone missing during the school day.
Now what Misty has said I take with a whole boat load of salt and then some.
IMO
Wise choice, I'm sure.
