Ok... I couldn't stop halfway so I scanned the other thread. It has links to the case PDF. I still don't see an official admission to photoshopping anything in the MS case. But that said, it does appear LE had additional video that is described than what was released in a couple of screen grabs. Or if they are somehow describing the same video that was posted it sounds more like they just didn't use the frames that showed the bike and truck in the same frame, not that anything was photoshopped out. The majority of the speculation I read on the photoshopping actually had to do with the bike under the truck which ultimately was debunked and clearly not proven to be accurate. But clearly a video is described by LE with the truck passing along side the bike. Whether that was a 2nd video LE had or somehow played out in the same video they released screen caps from I have no idea. It really seems like it would be a 2nd video for a few reasons. But nowhere did I read of LE admitting to any manipulating of the image. At best it was picking and choosing which screen caps to use and selectively not showing the ones that included both the truck and the bike. ...IMHO...
And unfortunately I'm right back to where I started with no official confirmation that LE manipulated photos. I appreciate the links Ixchel13. I at least have a better idea of that whole discussion now and some official background I never knew that came from this:
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http://www.theadvertiser.com/assets/pdf/DG1959111016.PDF
well, it seems the info was somewhere amongst those threads, maybe someone else could help, it gave me a headache sifting back through the threads to find the right one! But, you did find out that LE had additional frames with Mickey and perp that they did not release.
My point was that BTown has viewed a video that has a woman pedestrian on the same street at the same time as Lauren was supposed to be there according to JR. They also show us a video shot of Lauren in the hallway but don't show us who she is with.
Long shot, but what if there were two people with Lauren and not just DR
in that hallway? DR has been cleared (supposedly), so this other person, if any, could be one of the unnamed POIs.
And this witness, the female bar mgr., could also be saying the last time she saw Lauren she was being carried over a swarthy man's shoulders.--for all we know,
she could also be a POI. Did someone come out of 10th and College to pick up Lauren and take her back to JR's? At those steps, a person is just as close to SW as to JRs. At that point, if that person knew Lauren, they could have taken her home instead.
Also, saying a mysterious swarthy man entered the picture and committed the crime at 3:38 exactly is a huge cliche, doesn't make sense in this story and has always sounded false, incl, her exact noting of the time, completely possible but when we are saying that knowing Lauren had a fake ID is another sign of JRs guilt, I would say it's just as plausable.
Without the slightest doubt, LE had much more incriminating evidence
in the Mickey Shunick case in the direct nature of video footage, and from the very beginning of her disappearance, and this video clearly showed the perp's truck alongside Mickey on her bike in the frame.
We can discuss all that was wrong about my observations in my above posts, but we cannot deny that LE may actually have much more than the 5N
POIs and this woman pedestrian intrigues me, especially if she is also the bar mgr.