01-27-2014, 11:37 AM
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Originally posted by Island girl
Which tent was the liquor bottle supposedly found at? Were the tent and the belongings from the first tent site search returned to the owners? As others have asked, who were these people? Their tent was excluded so I presume everything was returned to them-except the clothes line, rope from inside their tent and the blood samples from the tent and clothing, since those things from the excluded site were used as evidence?
Island girl, these things would not have been used as evidence. Excluded means the entire scene was determined to be irrelevant to crime. Yes, samples and items were collected and processed, but they would not have been entered into evidence for the indictment.
The police declined to say whose tent it was. I assume they believe the personÔs identity should not be brought into it as they were cleared.
My question is how and why they were cleared, and whether the police found some other rope around the correct camp. We know the police were looking for BrittanyÔs DNA, because it says so in the warrant request. But if people came to BrittanyÔs camp, and brought rope, then one would not expect to find her DNA at the camp that had the cut clothesline.
The blood on clothes is not necessarily relevant, because people cut themselves on lava rock regularly. The cut clothesline seems significant to me, at least worthy of some explanation such as if the police told us that the rope from that site didnÔt match after all.
anony_mouse, thanks for enhancing the PC to get EstebanÔs reply on the liquor bottle. I got the impression from watching the video that the bottle was something Tiffany heard about. It was not listed in the initial observation the police made of the campsite.
Tiffany also said there was rope found in BoÔs backpack, but that is not in the initial report either. That would be an important fact.
anony_mouse, you asked about the phone. If you look at the timeline, Ed called Bo at 8 AM on the 28th and the phone was found 2 days + 3 hours later, so there is no contradiction there. There was only one phone, and we do not know when it was dropped or placed on the trail, but the police know that there was some phone activity after the Ed phone call.
It would be great if they would say the time and date of the last outgoing call. IÔm assuming there were messages left on voicemail by BoÔs mother/family, because they reported him missing the evening of the 29th and were trying to contact him. Also the realtor had contacted his mother, so might have called Bo.
Apparently there was some kind of outgoing call activity, but the police wonÔt say to whom the calls went. I donÔt know if they get how frustrating that is to the public and surely to his family.