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Certain parts of Atlanta are blanketed with surveillance cameras-- namely downtown, midtown and buckhead. Outside of that, not so much. There is one (newish) gas station at the intersection of Bolton and Marietta Road, which may have cameras facing the street.

FWIW, I've suggested as a former local of this neighborhood, if he got away in some form of transportation, it would almost certainly be a MARTA bus. He didn't have an uber or lyft history from that day according to police. Cabs aren't "hailed" anywhere in Atlanta except basically downtown...

See my comment above. Not secluded.

It's near a busy intersection. I wouldn't say the bridge itself is that busy to where it's impossible to be unseen jumping. Cars also go real fast through there. If he was walking along the bridge and jumped, good chance no one sees. We also don't know that he would have done this in the...

I believe there would be cameras from the front of each bus. How long the film saves is another question. There would of course be security cameras in each train station. It's possible the police tried to run down the cameras from route 58 buses that day. Though I never put too much faith in...

This has been my main thought all along. I wish I knew how deep the water was in that section of the hooch. I am inclined to believe it's one of the deeper sections. The fall would not have been enough to kill him from the Atlanta Road/Marietta Blvd bridge. He would have had to be weighted...

Good stuff Leru. And yes, when you mentioned bus, I went "DUH!". Something I should have though of having lived in Atlanta and that area for so long. Yes, of course, Marta buses run along Bolton Road. If he had $2.50 or his marta card he could have taken a bus. It would be Route 58...

Yes, exactly. Thus, Occam's Razor.

I appreciate. I only bring it up because it's relevant. I know of many similar examples, and I'm sure many here know of many more. A suicide where someone goes off to somewhere difficult to find, to me suggests a likelihood that they've been contemplating it for a period of time, and suggests...

The odd statement to the neighbor about his wife's number is perhaps to me the most telling clue to me of a planned suicide or perhaps bizarre escape. It tells me (1) he was in a manic and/or severely irrational state and (2) he was contemplating being "gone." Call it a cry for help, sure...

This would actually be a fairly common scenario for suicide. Just on personal experience, my dad left most of his belongings at home. He left in a car, but wallet and other typical items he would carry were left behind. He was found after 5 days a few miles away in a remote area. Many people...

Mary, my dad committed suicide. I'm sure there are many others in this thread with close personal experiences with it. Many people say the kind of things you do, but the fact is, it's complicated and people in various emotional states do not rationalize in the same way we might expect.

The train thing is simply based on the fact that there is a massive train yard and many trains within walking distance he could have hopped on. As to his motivation, he certainly seems like someone that could have succumbed to a nervous breakdown, or whatever one wants to call it, due to...

The weather had been in the 60's in Atlanta that day, and the days prior. He probably just had the upstairs windows open because the weather was nice for it. Why else do you think homicide here?

As I mentioned in a previous post, I also worked at Leadership Atlanta during my time there. I know literally dozens of people like Tim Cunningham that go through its programs and then volunteer after. Tim was in the LEAD program, the one for young professionals. Most are exactly the way...

I'm sure there are. It's enormous as you can see on a map. Getting into the proper train yard would be a problem though. If he got on a train, it's more likely it would be from one one the tracks that come out of it. You can look at the google map and the various tracks to get a sense of...

There are literally hundreds of trains that come through NS-Inman yard daily, meaning many thousands of train cars.

The problem here is he would have had to call them. Cabs just aren't driving around Atlanta, especially the upper west side. You'd wait quite a while standing on bolton road before you ever saw a proper cab. If you did see one, it would be transporting someone already in the car. Had he...

There is also the James Jackson Parkway (280) bridge. Incidentally, this is the same bridge from the Atlanta child murders (Wayne Williams) case. There are "jumper" fences on that bridge though.

I used to live in the riverside neighborhood, adjacent to Bolton. I know the area well. There are two scenarios I imagine. One, a wild but conceivable one, is that he hopped a train. This area is one of the highest volume trainyards in the US, with trains coming and going from everywhere...