It took me forever to learn how to quote a post from a previous thread and now <sigh> it has been so long since we've had a new thread, I've forgotten -- which is bad, because catching up with the last posts in the previous thread I saw several things to which I'd like to reply.
Until I figure out how to quote again, I'll improvise:
southern_comfort, in your post at:
Websleuths Crime Sleuthing Community - View Single Post - Found Deceased GA - Lauren Giddings, 27, Macon, 2011 June 27 - #12
...you say:
Despite what's being claimed in comments in various places online, for now I have to believe this post was made in between the big media interview and McD being locked up - June 30 late afternoon to July 1 at 5 a.m.. I just can't think of a way to explain it for the prosecution, if it was made after that. (Thanks for the timeline, Backwoods!)
First of all, you're welcome for the timeline.
I just can't go with that thinking about when the post was made.
From the very first of the brouhaha over this post, as you've probably observed, lol, I've dug in my toenails and said something was hokey. One of the reasons was that I KNOW that if those of us WSers who were scrutinizing/saving the SoL posts back during the summer had seen this post signed SoL and dated
before SM was in jail, it would have zoomed to #1 on the incriminating-posts list. (Heck, even
I would have found it incriminating!)
I suppose I have to consider that our post-combing gang simply missed it somehow. (I
don't believe it was spotted and removed by some LE force before we came along, BTW.) Two reasons why I don't think that's the case:
(1) It rang faint bells with some of us -- and I think the reason is that, as some of us lurked in on the ongoing-at-that-time conversation at the site in question, we saw it when it was posted, knew it was not genuine SM (since he was in jail), and recognized it for what it was and didn't pay it too much mind.
(2) I remember from combing the site in question that it took a while for conversation to even break on that site that a former poster was in jail, linked with a heinous murder. To me, all the "details" incorporated into that hoax-post show that it wasn't made before SM was in jail --for example, info wasn't released at least until after SM was in custody that the body was dismembered. Unless we DO go with the theory that someone other than SM posting on that board was the killer or knew details directly from the killer -- and I don't seriously consider that likely -- I don't think the joker-poster could, during the time frame you posit, have formulated a post that hit on all the details the post does, because some of them were just not known/publicized yet.
Shortly after the folks on that site first started making the connection with SoL/murder in Macon, we WSers showed up ... and the rest is history. That's when those folks got motivated to post most of this kind of thing.