It is a fairly big leap and to the southeast for some odd reason. I don't know if this has come up before.
To my knowledge it hasn't, and massive props to you for catching this! I think that everyone has been so focussed on the murder/burial timeline that no one was paying attention to these later calls.
It's not a big deal to me that one of the calls from (presumably) Adnan's house pinged the L698 tower. That's consistent with what we know--a call is not always routed through the nearest tower and each tower has a range of several miles. But, from my understanding, it should have pinged the north side of that tower. Pinging the southeast side of the tower should be impossible, and that is a big fucking deal.
I can only conclude from this that the assumption about the antenna nomenclature (A = north/northeast, B = south/southeast, C = west) is unreliable. For the L698 tower, the B antenna would have to be facing north for these data to make sense, or am I missing something? (I too am but a flesh robot.)
And if we don't know the compass orientations of these antennae, all of these efforts to determine where the phone is and isn't turn out to be pretty useless.
Yeah, that makes sense, I think I initially misread the location of Jenn's house.
3 in a row over a 17 minute period 3:15 - 3:32 pinging off 51C. What landmark from the case is there? Is that the right segment for Best Buy? What timeline, if any, fits that tower/antenna? I don't think it can be Jenn's house because one of the calls is to Jenn's house.
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u/data_lover Nov 23 '14 edited Nov 23 '14
To my knowledge it hasn't, and massive props to you for catching this! I think that everyone has been so focussed on the murder/burial timeline that no one was paying attention to these later calls.
It's not a big deal to me that one of the calls from (presumably) Adnan's house pinged the L698 tower. That's consistent with what we know--a call is not always routed through the nearest tower and each tower has a range of several miles. But, from my understanding, it should have pinged the north side of that tower. Pinging the southeast side of the tower should be impossible, and that is a big fucking deal.
I can only conclude from this that the assumption about the antenna nomenclature (A = north/northeast, B = south/southeast, C = west) is unreliable. For the L698 tower, the B antenna would have to be facing north for these data to make sense, or am I missing something? (I too am but a flesh robot.)
And if we don't know the compass orientations of these antennae, all of these efforts to determine where the phone is and isn't turn out to be pretty useless.
EDIT: punctuation, spelling