by marlene on Tue May 19, 2009 3:18 pm
I received an email recently from a Robert Higgins. He insisted that the 10:08-10:18 timeframe the State produced is infallible evidence. He rejected the Aponte tip information about Todd's confrontation because the Medina burglary didn't happen till after McKenzie was found, after 10:30 -- and anything that happens after 10:18 is irrelevant to Laci's disappearance.
Well, Mr. Higgins is a fool for deeming the 10:08-10:18 timeframe infallible, and he is also incorrect in assuming that the only time Laci could have confronted Todd is after the Medina's left.
Tenbrink said Todd had the confrontation with Laci while doing the burglary. However, casing the neighborhood is part of a burglary. The 10 minutes does give Laci enough time to follow Scott out of the house, leash up McKenzie, head out the gate, and then see Todd lurking around the neighborhood. He knows what he's up to, but she doesn't -- she just thinks he is snooping around where he doesn't belong. She tells him to get lost, and he threatens her. Obviously, she didn't know he was a real danger, and she continued on her walk. Todd (or someone that is with him, such as someone sitting in the van intended to carry away the stolen goods) worries that she is going to call the police on him, so he follows her from a distance. Laci spots him, another confrontation and Todd abducts her to keep her quiet. If Laci was put into a vehicle, and that vehicle returned to the Medinas, then McKenzie would follow.
So, the 10:08-10:18 timeframe does not eliminate Steve Todd as a suspect, nor does it exclude all of the eye witnesses that saw Laci walking that morning. It may eliminate some of the eye witnesses who truly believe they saw Laci that morning, but it does not eliminate Todd as a suspect.
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