Originally posted by Michael W Richards
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When it comes to Mortimer and any perceived contradictions in the two statements, we should extend her some benefit of doubt in that these seeming contradictions might have been the fault of a reporter and not her. In fact, what I think she may have been saying is that her front door had been open with her inside for 30 minutes, but that when she went to close the door she stood in the doorway for 10 of those minutes. She also would have been estimating the time, so it could have been longer or shorter.
James Brown strikes me as an honest witness who felt pretty sure the woman he'd seen had been Stride, and she probably was. He describes a man very similar to Pipeman standing in the same spot that Pipeman may have been standing per Schwartz (albeit not in the Star report which places him outside the Nelson and not the school).
Schwartz I'll never be certain of, but I err on the side of caution that he was telling the truth. I'm not surprised no one else heard him yell 'Lipski' since that would have blended in with the voices from the club. Mortimer's statement that the street was dead also jibes with Schwartz. If he was lying he hit paydirt with Brown and Mortimer because they essentially backed up his story.
Yours truly,
Tom Wescott
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