From: Jasper
Date: 15 Oct 2010
Time: 05:47:13 PM
Green Ice— This sequence of events involved one cop (Benjamin Jones) that I didn’t show in Dog Walkers 2 http://smartfellowspress.com/_Iago2006/_1206/000000d9.htm I had three practical reasons that I can recall for not including him in the animation: ..................................................................................................................1) The reason for doing it in the first place was to show how Heidstra’s version of walking his dogs on the night of the murders meshed with Schwab’s in time and space. When and where Schwab SAID he met the strolling couple twice is not EVIDENCE that he did. But when you work out the pace that gets Heidstra and Schwab from point to point on their individual routes, where the strolling couple end up the second time Schwab sees them (without making them run or crawl) matches what both of them said. You don’t need the cop to make that point. ..................................................................................................................2) When I put up that animation I thought that it would be used as the analytical tool for which it was designed. I couldn’t plug everything into it (reason # 3) without creating unnecessary confusion because of the time compression. So, with the time and space framework in place and the transcripts readily available I thought that I could leave it to the viewers to plug in the information that they thought was important. .................................................................................................................. 3) I was pushing the space limit of what I could do without dumping the archives for the discussion boards and forgoing the creation of other animations. .................................................................................................................. Much has changed since then, some of which you can tell simply by looking at the MapQuest map that the Dog Walkers animations were superimposed on. I think I can now do the animations over with Officer Jones, Wagner’s map http://www.smartfellowspress.com/bundygorham_curve.htm and a good Google map. Pulling the Akita out of the “Schwab circle” is a much tougher challenge. It could take several weeks. But I’m inclined to get cracking on it. –Jasper