So after reviewing the Podcasts sessions with Det Hurst I began to hear a couple things that I just can’t get past.
The Emergency Exit door inside the bar...Det Hurst discusses these doors in both Podcasts.
These doors lead from the second floor inside the bar and then downstairs to outside the building on ground level, basically right outside where you would enter the building and go up the escalator toward the bar.
These doors are supposed to sound when someone exits but apparently they do not, from what I read or heard. There is also a camera which is supposed to have an Auto Focus feature on it that pans to the door when it opens.
Det. Hurst states in both podcasts that this feature was disabled or overridden by an employee for whatever reason and it was operating on manual.
Now he also states in one podcast that CPD spoke with the UTS staff who stated that they had security at the door watching and nobody went up or down.
He also states on one of the podcasts that security monitoring the cameras, stated that “to the best of their knowledge” no one exited. To me thats an interesting phrase because it leaves room for possible error.
But for me the biggest statement he makes about that door is that while the camera was on manual control, that “it appeared at one point to want to pan and focus on something however it didn’t actually do it because it was overridden.”
For me, the time frame for this happening is absolutely critical because if it happened after 1:59am when Brian was last seen and could have been in the bar, then its very possible it could have been Brian.
Im not saying security did it on purpose, but Im questioning why would the camera attempt to pan unless someone was exiting those doors? It says to me someone left and the time of when they left is critical because if everyone else was accounted for as leaving by CPD, then that could be the 1 who wasn’t...which is Brian.
Id love to know what time that occurred.
In the E-news special a detective says its not possible that Brian went out the emergency exit because of the Auto Pan feature which would focus on whoever left...however we know thats not factually correct seeing as Det Hurst states in both Podcasts that the Auto Feature on the door was on manual and not working for whatever reason...they contradicted each other.