jgfitzge
It's complicated! No, It really isn't
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It would have been impossible for him to see the girls a night or two prior. Julie was only there by unfortunate chance that day. She and Rachel barely knew each other.
And although not every one makes small talk at work, Bill Hutchins was a security guard for the very store in whose parking lot the car was found. It wouldn't have been small talk. It would have been important work related information. It defies credibility that all mall security would not be aware of the disappearance, especially anyone who worked at Sears. Yet he claimed he only learned of the disappearance from news reports a couple days later.
Mr. Hutchins was also a former police officer who claimed he left the FWPD to take the job as a Sears security guard, which makes it even more difficult to believe he wouldn't have followed up.
His statement was extremely vague. He says he had some sort of confrontation with the other security guard but doesn't say about what. Just that he ended up apologizing for using foul language. He also says he made conversation with the girls but didn't say about what. The only things he was specific about were the impossible time, the seating arrangement, and his contention the girls were laughing and there willingly. Rachel was married, Renee had a Christmas party to attend with a boy who'd just given her a promise ring, and Julie was only nine years old. There is no way they were out joking and laughing that night.
And again, the police interviewed the other security guard.
Hi, you raise some good points. As I mentioned earlier, I was about Rachel's age, in college, 75-77 when I was working a part time job at our local mall. Sears was the big anchor store with the separate auto/tire shop across the lot. Anyway, I remember the Sears had plain clothes security, not uniformed. The mall was patrolled by uniformed security employed by the mall management company as well as the local police. Oddly the Sears employed the same female undercover person for several years, everyone knew who she was...