Ok, I'll throw in some food for thought here. I thought I was done examining the photo blowups, and then I stumbled over a couple of things, culminating in a very unexpected discovery this weekend.
Further analyzing the images I have posted in Blowup of Jennifer Kesse person of interest / suspect, I examined the remainder of what is commonly believed to be the "arm" in surveillance photo two released by police that turned out to be, at least the lower part, what appears to be a collapsible baton.
So what is above the baton that looks like an arm? The baton goes up to the duty belt and its rounded top is precisely at the same level as the top of stun gun holster, the highest point of the 45 degree angled strap from the holster. A fence post is between the two where they join the duty belt.
The duty belt is a couple of inches wide. I believe you can see it through the gate lock as it wraps around in front of the suspect.
The duty belt also forms a lateral black line above at the top of the belt, a couple of inches above the rounded top of the baton. This straight line, extending out from the fencepost running down between the holster and baton, creates an optical illusion. It appears to be the bottom of a white sleeve, with the "arm" continuing on down at a slight tilt in a straight line, as if the suspect were marching and swung his arm back and down rigidly.
But the baton is not his arm, and the straight black line across is not the bottom of his shirt sleeve. The white shirt showing is just that of his back, above the duty belt.
But in analyzing the remainder of this optical illusion, there is an object above the baton on the whilte shirt, about mid-back level. I puzzled over this for quite some time. It clearly has a 3-D look to it, which you can see if you look at photo six of the blowup images, in the fence section above the baton.
As I searched on what this could be I considered a logo on his back, but it had far too much depth. It has a zig-zaggy look to it as you look at it up and down. It appears it could be something on his left shoulder or something just behind him, not part of him, or from a distance helps make up the top part of that "arm" people believe they see.
I considered something mid-back supported by his duty belt, but the options, OC spray container, radio, latex glove pouch, did not resemble it and are not carried that high off the belt. Going up and down it just didn't make much sense.
But then as I examined it under various levels of brightness and darkness I noticed it is a perfectly shaped symmetrical object resembling binoculars, but hanging sideways on his back, with the eyepieces to the left and the lens to the right. I also considered it possible to be a camera with some lenses and such which might somewhat resemble binoculars.
In doing more research, I ran across a very interesting statement in a police manual. It said, Taser cartridges are not to be carried loosely as in a pocket as they may discharge. And then it dawned on me. This is either the Taser cartidge (and perhaps a spare above it) or the expended cartidge, depending on whether he used the gun in probe mode. And I doubt that he did.
He would have removed the cartridge to use the gun in stun mode, and he couldn't carry the cartidge in his pocket. It appears to me he is carrying the stun gun cartridges on a belt over his left shoulder.
It also appears to me in blowups of photo one that he is grasping the stun gun with his fingers. The hand doesn't look right for either left hand or right hand, it looks too far back and level. But I think it's his left hand reaching behind his back and either steadying the stun gun or ready to draw it, although again, the right hand would be easier but not as stealthy as drawing from behind his back unseen.
As you examine the blowups of photo one, you can see extensions from his curled fingers of a dark rectangular object that is mostly obscured by a fencepost, but it does extend out in front of the fencepost some.
It could be something else he is grasping, but it appears to me he is drawing the stun gun with his left hand, while over his left shoulder is a cartridge belt holding his Taser cartridge which he must reinsert after using the gun in stun mode, in my opinion, in the abduction of Jennifer.
Any use of the stun gun would be recorded and known by a compliance officer if he is law enforcement. He would explain the recorded use as an accidental discharge. The identifying confetti of a cartidge firing would not be left at the scene of the crime.
But if he is an imposter, then no one knows but himself, and us.
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