R, my gut tells me Mesquite was just as gas stop on the way home from somewhere else in a southern direction. Vegas or that area. We know he went at least a bit further south, due to the cell tower hit.
TH's business wasn't licensed to do work in Nevada, and he was never sent there to solicit. The St George area (Washington County) population is approximately 140,000; there's no way he'd have completely solicited the entire area.
Obviously, we don't know whether the library internet records were subpoenaed...or if they'd tell anything. We have another case in Utah were a Weber County library IP address is the source of threatening emails to teachers -- yet, all Weber County libraries use the same IP address. And they each have wifi, meaning someone could have sat outside in their car, and sent the threats.
You have to have the other end of the transmission (ie, something like the infamous traceable Mapquest map tracked back to a home ISP account) to be able to tell what actually happened. In the case of a library, it's likely all anonymous **although** possession of Steven's computer would give a good techie the info needed to trace certain things.
In other words: this case is being treated (IMO) as a "purposeful disappearance" and although it's an open case, it's not like LE's busting their gut to solve it.
yeah, you're right about library internet access records and network IP address. I wasn't talking about that. Of course LE tries to find out what they can with library subpeona when investigating a serious crime, but that could only shed some light on possibilities at best.
What I was talking about was subpeonaing Yahoo and Google, to name two of the most common webmail hosts, to see if SK had email accounts with them, and what if any email had been in them. That's a real shot in the dark, and dicey to determine if SK had not used his real name, but yahoo and gmail are two most common ways to have email over web.
The point of library questions is not to try to figure out from a library PC, or subpeona library IP access to their internet host (government or some library association server), but whether Steven was possibly using library to find opportunities and was in Henderson based on an email or search.
If SK truly was focused on getting a job as two people close to him say, had no internet access at home, and had recently checked out books from a library, it's almost a given he was doing job hunting on a library PC.
So again, the question is, can we determine that, what libraries might he have gone to, and was Mesquite one of them?
For starters, where and when were those books checked out? Was it recent enough to have been on a library PC (if they have one, that's the question), and obtained some info that took him to Henderson in a day or two?
I know the family won't know, police won't know, but it would be helpful if library employees noticed that he frequented an internet PC if they have one, for example where he checked the books out. But in the end it would be cooperation from the likes of Google gmail and Yahoo to tell LE that he had mail accounts and what was in them to perhaps identify who he was communicating with before he disappeared, unless he really did just drive to a very hard find cul-de-sac in a random suburb in Henderson and walk away. He would not have survived very long in the open, which I guess police must be thinking is the point.
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