Google's addressing system is approximate, as it says in the disclaimer, but if you compare the house in the logical position along Wallsburg to the
photo in the WRAL slideshow which petra linked from the "photos" subforum, Streetview shows two vehicles in the driveway. The car doesn't appear to have a very large trunk, but there is one in the Google image.
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IMHO
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Link to the
Google Map, though you actually have to "drive" part of the court. (3rd house from streethead on right)
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ETA: I must've overlooked KTaylorsc's post, but it appears that the photo on blueline is most likely a smaller screencap from Streetview.
Magister,
Excellent post!
I have not been to, nor am I familiar with the exact location of the Cooper house, but I did a bit of looking around using the zoom features of the street view on the map you linked.
I am impressed by several things in relation to the house. You are correct, the addressing shows the house at about 158, but the mailbox shows it as 104. I am not sure of the address where the party took place, but there have been several posts indicating that it was across the street. I suppose it is possible that it was also down the street a bit, but that does not really matter for the purposes of this post.
I did note the cars in the driveway as you indicated, and I also noted a few things about the surroundings and the house itself that I think are noteworthy.
For one thing, the design of the house. If you will take a close look, it seems to me that for a house of this size, there are not a lot of windows in the front of the house, and most of the ones that are there are kind of on the small side. Now, there is a realitively larger window in what looks to be the dining room, but given the designs of a lot of homes in Cary, which have quite a bit of window, this looks pretty small by comparison. The house seems to be positioned on the lot so that it is closest to the house on the right, thereby putting the garage closest to the neighboring house, and moving the living area farther from the house on the left, for privacy. The house directly across the street has a line of trees that would block the view, and deflect some sound, and there appears to be shrubbery between the house and the house on the left.
Now, I am not suggesting that this house was built or chosen because BC planned a murder, but it does seem that the house design would make it easier to carry this out. Some of the houses being built and sold in Cary have so many windows that it is very much like living in a fishbowl, mine included. I think I have 6 windows on the street facing side of my house, and that is just on the first floor. There seems to be a few trees that are positioned in front of the larger window on this house. I do not know what the back side of the house looks like, nor do we know where any confrontation might have taken place, but it looks like there is enough in the way to obstruct an outside viewer from seeing anything that might have taken place in the house, especially if it happened in the early morning hours. Even loading the vehicle could have been carried out without much observation, given that the trees obstruct the view from the house across the street, and he could have backed into the garage, or opened the garage with the vehicle backed up near the door.
CyberPro
