I can't stop thinking about her phone. I wonder whether her mother got voice mail or what. If it pinged at 8:30 within 1000 feet of JVH's house and the area around his house has been thoroughly checked (and even his septic tank), what does that mean?
Also, if the phone became submerged, would that disable any further pinging? I know what has happened to any phone I have dropped in water.
I'm right there w/ you, mombomb.
One clarification. The
tower is what is located ~1,000 feet from JVH's house.
That's the tower that carried the transmission. In other words the phone was prolly closer to that specific tower than to any other tower in the area. Rule of thumb...a tower can have a range up to a few miles...so w/o information on (a) the strength of the transmission signal, or (b) the sector of the tower that carried the transmission, we can only say her phone was somewhere around that tower. LE has the info that tells them what side of the tower the phone was on.
I wanna know what sector both the 4:30AM and 8:30AM pings were in.
And, of course, I want all of JVH's cell records...oh...and while your @ it, throw in Toole's, some Hutto's, Watters, Sharpe's....I'm not picky.
I'm working to see if we can get a local Verizon customer or two to do something that we did in the Anthony case. That is...set their phone to read some specific location data, and drive around the areas of interest in the case so we can determine the boundary of the key cell tower sectors. That'll put us a step ahead of when we do get a cell ping or two from LE or the media.
I also read that there are some areas around this specific tower that do not have a signal...so...in addition to establishing the sectors...if we could establish these zones we could eliminate some areas...that is to say, we know Tracy's phone wasn't in those areas @ 4:30AM or 8:30AM @ the exact times it pinged the tower(s), IYKWIM.
Hope I didn't confuse things more.
Mombomb,
I'm no cell expert but learned a whole lot with the Caylee case and ping info. What I do know is there are two different kinds of pings that the phone company keeps record of:
Periodic cell tower location pings are recorded every few minutes and are used to link a phone to the nearest tower. The phone company only keeps these records for 24-48 hours because of the enormous amount of data. These pings would definitely end after a phone is submerged in water or if the phone is powered off in any way.
Call pings are associated with incoming or outgoing calls or text messages and these are saved by the phone company for a much longer time. Since LE is only giving info on the specific 8:30 ping I assume they are using ping records associated with the incoming call.
I am hopeful LE was able to get record of cell tower locator pings before the phone company would have deleted them. We learned quickly in the Caylee case 31 days was definitely beyond the scope of any hope to get the locator pings.
Bond jump in here if I'm way off base. You're the "Ping Master" in my book!!! :bowdown:
Wouldn't change a letter of it. :blowkiss:
