From: Jasper
Date: 5/3/02
Time: 3:27:40 AM
Charlie and Rovaan,
I went to Wagner's site and saw what he did with the Schwab Timeline.
The only things we seem to disagree about - apart from his method of calculating time and distance -- are the ideas that Heidstra saw O.J. Bronco at 10:47 and Jill Shively saw him sometime later (obviously he hasn't studied the animations).
Wagner's photos are better than any others that I have seen anywhere else but there still isn't enough in them to clear up some thorny location problems (you need at least two viewing angles and the same two reference points in each view). I still can't tell precisely where the entrance and exit of Schwab's place was and where it sat between Bundy and San Vicente. I haven't seen anything yet that tells me where the "corner" of Bundy and Gorham is where the Akita barked most ferociously.
Wagner and I made the same observations about the intermittent barking and the sound walls between Schwab and the dogs and the corridors of sound between Heidstra and the dogs. With the change I made to Schwab's starting point, I think my maps are better than his, except for the ally that I need to show running from the alley east of Bundy to Westgate. That ally represents a sound amplifier that really should be in the picture.
You can see in the lower picture in Merging Timelines that Schwab had to be as close to the Akita as Heidstra was at 10:40 but didn't hear a thing. Once you see that and you know what sound walls stood between Schwab and the Akita a lot of things begin to fall into place like the significance of the couple he saw on Gorham and again ON THE 800 BLOCK OF BUNDY heading south. They were also on the east side of the street.
The fact that the couple must have passed the bodies without detecting them should not be compared to the Mandel and Aaronson experience. Mandel and Aaronson walked on Nicole's side of the street. They not only missed seeing the bloody pawprints, they missed seeing the dog. Schwab's couple saw the dog (click the hot spot on the lower map) - but not until they got to the corner of Bundy and Dorothy. Their attitude as described by Schwab indicates that they saw, heard and did nothing unusual. That, in effect, gives us two eyewitnesses to "all quiet" on the 800 block of Bundy between 10:50 and 10:55, which means no Karpf, no man walking with one dog and no barking Akita.
Where was the Akita? I say he was in the killing cage quietly getting his feet wet. --Jasper