Originally posted by Trevor Marriott
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Im not just blindly relying on witnesses. I, and many others so I’m far from alone, have assessed them. Elizabeth Long is the easiest for you to brush under the carpet of course because we all know the fragility of witness sightings. So taken in isolation, yes, Long could have been mistaken. I’ve never denied this possibility. Most witnesses are honest though (even if honestly wrong) so I find the 15 minutes of fame argument fairly weak. Not impossible but weak. So it’s much likelier that she was being honest. Note that I said ‘likelier,’ Trevor. Unlike you I’m not being black and white on this issue.
So yes, witnesses like Long can certainly be wrong but they can also be right and some people just have better memories for faces than others do. So we have to factor in a possibility of error. But we have to accept that she could have been right. Are you with me on this so far Trevor?
So we have an eyewitness, with no known reason to lie who identifies a woman but there’s a possibility of error.
But….bigger picture Trevor…..we look at the circumstances. The woman that she identified was seen by her talking to a man in the early hours of the morning, on the pavement a few feet from the address where she was killed and at a time that (accepting very minor clock synchronisation issues) corresponds with a man hearing a noise from that garden.
So what are the chances of having just three witnesses who have an impact on our assessment of ToD (and all three of them point solidly to a time nearer to 5.30) and they are all wrong (and they aren’t connected to each other, had no reasons for lying and they are all wrong in completely different ways?!) Wake up Trevor.
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