Any case like this one is fertile ground for conspiracy and cover-up because of witnesses. They are human beings that make mistakes and so it’s easy to assume the sinister when faced with a discrepancy. I’ve always said that if you want to find a conspiracy you will. The JFK assassination is the most famous example of course where every single male that was alive in the 60’s has at some point been named as a Grassy Knoll gunman.

So I think that our default position should be that there is likely to be a reasonable explanation for a discrepancy. As Kattrup said, we need more evidence to start thinking ‘conspiracy.’ Conspiracy thinking often breeds obsessiveness I’m afraid. Someone experiences some kind of eureka moment and pats himself/herself on the back for their ingenuity. The problem is that others then disagree. They point out the flaws or the errors and then it’s down the rabbit-hole you go when the conspiracist comes up with ever more imaginative ways of staying in the game. How often do we hear a person with a conspiracy/cover-up theory say “ok, I was wrong?”
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