Yes, I have seen the half-time reference repeated in many news stories, but it is factually false.
I agree about the mother. She witnessed nothing and is obviously not a source for any facts about the incident.
I have read the father’s story, which makes perfect sense to me. When my kids were younger, I fell asleep before they got home more than once. And more than once I woke up in the morning realizing I had not heard them come in, and ran to their rooms. They were always there, but I can only imagine how he felt when Trayvon was not. Nothing at all unusual about the dad’s story.
BUT...I can’t reconcile the dad’s story with the idea that there was a 13-year-old alone in the house who had been waiting for hours for his candy. That’s why I deduce there was no such boy (in the house) and I wonder where that story came from.
Now, the obvious question ~ could the lawyer have connived with the girl to create a fictitious conversation after listening to the Zimmerman story? Since the 9/11 tapes had just been released by the cops there's not a lot of time to do that, so her discussion, although not yet given in court, is probably more trustworthy regarding the sequence of events than the speculation made by the professional black power establishment.