I see a ball cap.
I see the bill of the ball cap silhouetted against the lighter background, when the male figure first walks into view (00:33 - 00:37) in the CAM3 video. I only see the bill of the cap while the figure's head is against that lighter background. The cap's bill is most visible when the figure ducks his head a bit as the SUV approaches, then raises his head a few seconds later.
I don't see a boombox, though. Those are elongated, thick objects - and I believe the figure is clasping a thin and squarish item between his left arm and left side. I cannot specifically identify the item as a portfolio; it could just as easily be a folded-up sweatshirt or jacket. It's never looked exactly square, nor clunky like a boombox. I'm not even sure you could carry a boombox that way, securely. .
Since boomboxes went away about 15 years ago, it would be distinctive to see someone carry one in a retirement neighborhood. But...the reason for carrying one of the big things, was to hear and share your loud music (not to carry something big and heavy so you could plug in headphones). IMO
I realize the family and many others are sure it's Steven in the video. Someone who didn't even know him, told me they are 100% positive it's him. His father couldn't recognize him on the fuzzy Best Buy/Home Depot (whatever) video...so why on this one? Because of the car? The movement? Something we're not aware of?
Until there's confirmation of what tells them it's positively Steven, I believe there's room for error.
Excellent laytonian. In the one image still posted, the bill is not visible but excellent that you can see in video. Non-balding makes it possible to be Steven again in terms of physical features.
Well, I've been through a few decades laytonian and yes, I know only too well what you're saying, and also know I have no clue about current culture. On other hand, I have Google and Google Images to make up for it.
So of course what you just said was first thing that went through my mind last night. Boom box? Stereo headphones? Surely must be something else.
However I did some searching on images and looked at the pages they were on and guess what, earmuff headphones were very prominently displayed in latest gear type ads. And then I saw boombox bags, something I didn't even know existed, because, like you said, didn't people carry those things or whatever, on the shoulder and blasting and whatnot.
But no, from ads it seems this is some kind of thing, carrying personal boombox in bag and wearing big stereo headphones, a very personal thing obviously. They also prominently mentioned iPod hookups, as in I guess amounts to a stereo receiver amp for an iPod, who knows. It was very late and the images were real clear, what I was seeing in the picture comes right up in current gear type ads, so I didn't delve into psychology of it.
From the image the object underneath his arm I took to be a sports type bag slanted upward, from back of hip to up in front of shoulder, but when I brightened and contrasted the image two things became obvious, the object under his arm extended to the front and was more squarish than I had been able to tell with it embedded in the dark. The other was a dark shape over his head that abruptly stops around the ears. The side of his face can clearly be seen out in front of what looks like stereo headphones to me.
Here's the two images, enlarged and enlarged but brightened and with some contrast:
Steven Koecher disappears in Henderson NV - pictures
http://www.justiceforchandra.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=4305
Although the bag now has some linear quality to it, it still looks has plenty of non-uniformity to it. I was trying to figure out what object he could be carrying in the bag. But when I looked at stereo headphones, I see boombox bags advertised as well, and doggone if this doesn't look like one, especially with what looks like headphones and references to plugging in your iPod, etc.
Now just like with the ball cap, which I am glad we're able to determine from elsewhere in the video, there are other possibilities on the bag but it looks like it is pretty big and he has his arm around it (boombox bag has shoulder strap though, as well as any other bag), and is definitely not a folder. SK's hobo bag? An argument could be made for it, but you couldn't walk very far like that imo.
I did some searching also on whether it was reasonable to have a wide white strip on the pants such as warmup pants, or whether that was light colored and a shadow, and an argument can be made for light colored and a shadow instead of a wide stripe. I'm open to this being SK carrying something or other alternatives, in fact as I look at it I can see that the abrupt stop around his ears lines up with a shadow, so not headphones.
Ok, SK carrying something sizeable but wearing a baseball cap. The black around his pants leg would be a shadow as well.
Maybe the shape of what he's carrying can give us some ideas?
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