i think mysterian was asking about a PI on R couple office staff. maybe the PI in the R office is Mrs. R. she seemed like the ask a lot of questions type. just my opinion.
My guess is that the RR's are correct.....the FBI took Krystal's phone on Dec. 17th. The FBI never uses couriers. Coincidentally, the central electronic data processing center for the FBI is in Pocatello, Idaho; but my guess is that the phone itself went from FBI deputy special agent/Pocatello, who KK handed it to, FBI special agent in Salt Lake City office, to FBI forensics lab in Quantico, Virginia. That would be the normal routing.
Personal injury attorneys use all kinds of "employees". Some might be insiders in the organizations medical and insurance organizations that the lawyer's practice associates with or against. It is also not unusual for a PI attorney to employ private investigators.
i'm not sure what you mean by "the fbi never uses couriers" but from reading this linked document it appears they do suggest using usps/ups/fedex for transfer of evidence.
Remember that the Twin Falls County Sheriff said he received requests from the WP Police, the CBI, and the FBI. All he has said since is that his department served warrants, collected and processed some evidence, and was negotiating the method of delivering that evidence. So who was he negotiating with.....the WPP, CBI or FBI? I don't know. If the WPP said they were no longer interested, I'm not prepared to conclude that no one else was, either.
The FBI Special Agent delivers it to the airport in an FBI car, hands it to the pilot (not the ground crew person), there is an FBI special agent waiting at the other end to walk out to the plane and get the package. Someone signs for every change of possession. Any communication about it is on an FBI form, and everyone who sees or hears it initials the form, then it is kept on file forever. There are several notable cases on the FBI website where you can see these documents for yourself, and trace the exact transfer process. In the DB Cooper case, one can trace transfers from 47 years ago. Like anything governmental, tracing requires a lot of time and patience, but the chain is there.
I'm wondering if it's something that has to stay refrigerated in order to preserve it. That could prove a bit tricky,as too the chain of who is keeping watch over it.
Evidence that must be preserved is generally kept and transferred in evidence containers that are similar to the ones used to fly donated organs, but there are a huge variety of sizes, shapes and purposes. In the proper container, it would seem to me to be the same transfer process as any other evidence:
Not if the opposing side could glob on to said evidence chain of possession. LE has to dot every i,and cross every T.
The flight schedules are not easy to make work with the 5:13 time for Gooding. You have multiple connecting flights for most flight options and a handful of one connecting flight options. I don't know if you could fly directly to Boise out of either Colorado Springs or Denver. Most flight options have you flying to Boise via Seattle or Salt Lake City. A lot of the flight options out of Colorado Springs will fly you to Denver first. And then there is the final connection to Twin Falls - which isn't easy to make work because of the limited flights that exist. So, it would seem that driving back and forth between Boise and Twin Falls to facilitate flying is an easier option. Expedia is helpful (or other flight booking sites) to investigate these options.
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oh i agree there are cases where what you suggest does happen. but in your scenario what happens when there is a rather large piece of evidence? the fbi agent "hands it to the pilot"? does the pilot, then using a hand truck or forklift, then move the piece to the cockpit? so you are saying that in all cases of evidence transfer the only method the fbi uses is the one you describe? handing to the pilot?
I don't think it should be ruled out, Pommy. IMO flying would have made it much easier for KK...to send the texts and dispose of the phone. Driving 12 hours then swinging up to Gooding seems like a very long day. Perhaps she turned the phone on, over Gooding, as plane was circling for landing. Then turned it back off once messages were sent. I have read that cell phones will try to connect with nearest cell tower as you fly if you do leave it off airplane mode. Then she could have disposed of phone anywhere after landing. This is all just me conjecturing. I know it is required to put phone in airplane mode or turn it off while flying but i imagine some people forget or willfully ignore the rule. Or if plane had wifi on board a quick on/off of KB phone to dend the pre-loaded messages might have worked as well. Only problem is I dont know the flight trajectories denver to twin falls (if plane actually goes over Gooding area in preparation to land). LE might be keeping passenger lists to themselves. IMO.
We're all developing theories that make sense to us, but most of them are not based on hard evidence or LE sources.
