[cherry]

":tom's claim that he recieved a phone call from ed at 3:30am"

that in itself is curious, since we now finally have Ed saying it was exactly 3:58 when MK came into the bedroom and it was 4:01 when they called the cops...

look, its not like any of this adds up to much except it does show a certain attitude about the facts, like throw out some numbers there that stick....

The family should have had only one spokesman the entire time....they have given conflicting reports and its no wonder people are suspicious

[lakey]

From the last Tribune article, the thing that struck me was the way Ed gave a description of his actions, times, etc. He may have said all of this before and I haven't read or heard it. But if he hasn't described that night in interviews, I wonder why he waited so long?

[anatolfz]

Re: Vast LDS Conspiracy: "Raymond Shaw is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I've ever known in my life." I don't know if you've seen The Manchurian Candidate, but in an early scene the man played by Frank Sinatra says this about the Lawrence Harvey character (the villain); a bit later another member of his platoon says the very same thing to his wife, word for word. The point is they've both been "brainwashed". The "contradictions" some have noted (I should call them "discrepancies") are what you'd expect among people who are not part of a conspiracy and have not got their story straight.

Re: Ed Smart's hospital stay: A while ago a friend of mine had a terribly bad scare concerning his child. It turned out okay, but he had to run around doing stuff, phoning people, etc., and I suppose didn't have time to soak it all in. A few weeks later he woke up one morning to find he couldn't stand up without falling over, because his sense of equilibrium was shot. He had no other symptoms but he would get completely dizzy if he moved his head the least bit. This went on for 24 hours and then he was fine. It turned out to be an anxiety attack. It can take other forms though.

Re: Other officer: I imagine the other officer in the patrol car was busy on the computer checking hospitals, juveniles picked up, other disturbances, checking up on the Smarts. I notice here whenever the police talk to anybody they ask for name and date of birth and then discreetly go back to the patrol car to do some checking.

[jandji]

it shows that ed keeps trying to cover things he shouldn't have to lie about. just like o.j., or fuhrman. don't lie about stuff that can be proven.