Approximately 11:53 p.m. An exotic dancer, who later tells police she was raped, sodomized, beaten and strangled for 30 minutes, arrives at 610 N. Buchanan Blvd
No, WRAL didn't pull it out of their a**, but that's the DEFENSE version (we know the AV's version is she arrived about 11:30). Note that 11:53 is an estimate ("approximately"), not an exact time, indicating that the defense does not have a time-stamped photo or other evidence pinning this minute down with certainty.
While it is possible that the father invented out of thin air the fact of the phone call, IMO it is very likely he did not, and if that call took place at 11:52 or otherwise about when the defense is saying the AV arrived, that would blow a big hole in the AV's and prosecution's timeline.
I can easily believe that Kim was sitting in her car at 11:53 when the AV is dropped off at the house. If the girls were supposed to start at 11:30, then Kim was probably in her car on her cellphone trying to find out why the other stripper hadn't yet shown up and whether she was still coming at all.
So it may be the case that when the AV arrived, the AV and Kim sat in Kim's car together from 11:53 until 12:00 getting to know each other and planning what their routine would be (and perhaps even taking drugs or alcohol). Or it may be that Kim and the AV went into the house together right away, at 11:54. It seems to me more likely that they sat in Kim's car together for only a couple minutes or so, because there was time before they started their routine at 12:00 for the boys to pour them a couple of mixed drinks, for the AV to spill half of hers and for the AV to drink all of Kim's drink (according to Kim).
Either way, if the defense can establish that the phone call between the AV and her father did take place, and if it did take place around when they say the AV arrived at 11:53, then that would be a major blow against any attempt by Nifong to move a 30-minute (or 30-minute seeming) beating and rape back to the 11:30-12:00 time frame.
Reading that scenario got me thinking. What if...Crystal was late because she had an earlier party where she made a fair amount of money doing one-on-ones and when she arrived she told Kim about the earlier event.
True to form, Kim immediately saw $$$ and knew that Crystal probably had at least some of that money still on her. What if Kim drugged Crystal as part of a plan to steal the money? Soon after they started dancing Kim pretended to be insulted because she knew Crystal couldn't keep dancing and she wanted to get out of there.
Kim's plan was to somehow get her hands on the money and either leave Crystal at the house or dump her somewhere.
I can easily believe that Kim was sitting in her car at 11:53 when the AV is dropped off at the house. If the girls were supposed to start at 11:30, then Kim was probably in her car on her cellphone trying to find out why the other stripper hadn't yet shown up and whether she was still coming at all.
Could you imagine, if this was a standard case (without the race hysteria) with a neutral jury pool, the uphill battle a prosecutor would be facing, if a neighbor (unfriendly to the suspects) backs up their timeline in a on-camera, videotaped interview AND the "only sober person at the party" - and a state's witness also backs up the suspects timeline (according to the LA times) and there are timestamped photos that also match this timeline.
In most cases, any one of these would be reasonable doubt when considered with the ATM camera video and dorm room scan
alibi.
The Jury pool is the reason Nifong doesn't give a crap what the evidence is. If one considers that, it's not so shocking that he didn't want to see the Defense's evidence.
Nifong would have to defeat the time stamps in order to move the arrival and rape back to between 11:30 and 12:00, and then he has Kim's call at 12:53 to contend with, too, as well as Bissey. There're too many obstacles. I say Bifong is bluffing, and that's why he keeps using hypotheticals with the media. He won't commit to these strong implications because he can't deliver. He's just placating the media to keep them off his back.