01-26-2014, 09:43 PM
kohaladiver, there is a post from this week on BIC from an old friend of EdÔs who has not heard from him and is looking for him.
http://www.bigislandchronicle.com/2013/0...ent-432489
There is a comment online from the Tribune Herald story last summer, where someone who knows Ed relayed what he understood from Ed. It is secondhand, but Ed posted, IIRC, that he felt he should not say anything more. Before he posted that, though, his story had been repeated.
Comment:
"On the day of recovery of the body, Bo's friend made a call to his good friend Bo on the morning the body was found. He made the call to check on his friend because of all the commotion on Bo's property near the coast of Kalapana. Not knowing the body was of his friends girlfriend. He made the call at 8am. To the answer, it was Bo Johnson on the other side of the line. He asked Bo"what's going on" and what the report said Bo replied with "I'm ok. Me and Brittany are in Hilo and we will be back in the afternoon."
In this version, he tells Bo about a body being found (what the report said) BEFORE Bo says they are are OK. My question is, why would someone who is trying to cover up a murder say anything like that when hearing a body has been found.
Even though Ed doesnÔt know the identity, Bo if guilty would know she was found. He would know that saying he is with her alive would come back to bite him. Better by far to say he does not know where she is, or even to say she is missing and he is concerned. Anything but oh she is fine and with me, when obviously that is going to be seen as a lie in fairly short order.
If Ed called him and asked about Brittany first, before saying why he was asking, then Bo could have slipped and said this, but it still makes no sense in light of what police say now -- that Bo never left the close vicinity of the crime scene. Therefore he would also have seen all the helicopters and commotion, and a guilty Bo would have figured out what it was about. So again, "we are on our way to Hilo" would not be a sensible cover-up.
Anyhow, all the police really know about the phone call is that Ed said this was the conversation. There is no actual proof that is true. There is only a record that a phone call was made and picked up, and how long it lasted, and which cell tower was pinged. Anything more rests on EdÔs credibility, and Ed has left the area.
The comment further says:
Not knowing the body was of Brittany he just carried on. Later that day he found out that it was Brittany, he immediately went to the cops and made the report to the police officers."
Ed did not go to the police later that day, May 28th. He went to them at 8:30 AM on the 30th, the day Boaz his thought to have hanged himself. There was no official ID of Brittany at that time. The ID came in at 2 oÔclock that afternoon.
It is possible he had heard about her tattoo and he thought he knew, but it was not official yet.
Perhaps he had gone to them on the 28th, but his name does not appear on any papers until the morning that he took the detectives to the campsite. Perhaps whoever made that comment didnÔt get the story straight. I hope that EdÔs actual narrative is in the Grand Jury transcript.
http://www.bigislandchronicle.com/2013/0...ent-432489
There is a comment online from the Tribune Herald story last summer, where someone who knows Ed relayed what he understood from Ed. It is secondhand, but Ed posted, IIRC, that he felt he should not say anything more. Before he posted that, though, his story had been repeated.
Comment:
"On the day of recovery of the body, Bo's friend made a call to his good friend Bo on the morning the body was found. He made the call to check on his friend because of all the commotion on Bo's property near the coast of Kalapana. Not knowing the body was of his friends girlfriend. He made the call at 8am. To the answer, it was Bo Johnson on the other side of the line. He asked Bo"what's going on" and what the report said Bo replied with "I'm ok. Me and Brittany are in Hilo and we will be back in the afternoon."
In this version, he tells Bo about a body being found (what the report said) BEFORE Bo says they are are OK. My question is, why would someone who is trying to cover up a murder say anything like that when hearing a body has been found.
Even though Ed doesnÔt know the identity, Bo if guilty would know she was found. He would know that saying he is with her alive would come back to bite him. Better by far to say he does not know where she is, or even to say she is missing and he is concerned. Anything but oh she is fine and with me, when obviously that is going to be seen as a lie in fairly short order.
If Ed called him and asked about Brittany first, before saying why he was asking, then Bo could have slipped and said this, but it still makes no sense in light of what police say now -- that Bo never left the close vicinity of the crime scene. Therefore he would also have seen all the helicopters and commotion, and a guilty Bo would have figured out what it was about. So again, "we are on our way to Hilo" would not be a sensible cover-up.
Anyhow, all the police really know about the phone call is that Ed said this was the conversation. There is no actual proof that is true. There is only a record that a phone call was made and picked up, and how long it lasted, and which cell tower was pinged. Anything more rests on EdÔs credibility, and Ed has left the area.
The comment further says:
Not knowing the body was of Brittany he just carried on. Later that day he found out that it was Brittany, he immediately went to the cops and made the report to the police officers."
Ed did not go to the police later that day, May 28th. He went to them at 8:30 AM on the 30th, the day Boaz his thought to have hanged himself. There was no official ID of Brittany at that time. The ID came in at 2 oÔclock that afternoon.
It is possible he had heard about her tattoo and he thought he knew, but it was not official yet.
Perhaps he had gone to them on the 28th, but his name does not appear on any papers until the morning that he took the detectives to the campsite. Perhaps whoever made that comment didnÔt get the story straight. I hope that EdÔs actual narrative is in the Grand Jury transcript.