Micheline
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How Many Times Did BT Vanish?
@firstsleuth Thx for your post w quote from @dbdb11's sister's text msg, which I snipped for focus. Let's say for sake of discussion, RT literally/verbatim
said on the phone to fam member - "We lost sight of each other for 5-10 min before she vanished."
Huh? What's that? If RT & BT had already lost sight of each other for 5-10 minutes, then she had already vanished/was out of site, before she "vanished."
How to understand/explain ^ stmt?
1. Under stress of the situation, RT spoke less precisely/less accurately than we sleuthers would wish for in every MisPers case? IOW maybe he just repeated that she vanished, a slip of the tongue anyone could make. Jmo, <<< possible.
2. During the 5-10 min RT & BT lost sight of each other, they were still within hearing range of each other, and they were speaking to one another? Then BT visually "vanished" afterward. Jmo <<< possible. (What would they be talking about, presumably talking loudly, then more loudly, as she walked further away?)
3. They lost sight of each other. Then something happened, something he does not want to talk about. Afterward he returned to RV. Jmo, <<< possible.
4. Other??? What explanation am I overlooking?
Taken w a few of his other stmts (polygraph, crime scene, prime suspect, etc.), ^ seems a bit unusual.
Since Barbara was walking ahead of Robert, she would be walking with her back facing Robert, Robert not being in her sight at this point.
Since Robert was making pictures of something, he did not have Barbara in his sight at that point, just like he wasn't in Barbara's sight.
He did see her briefly in the distance when putting his camera away. She turned a corner, and vanished shortly after.
She did not vanish twice. IMO