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You seem to think that if I say Skyline instead of Skyland, it somehow invalidates my theory. I have never contended that Condit killed Winans and Williams; I have only said this murder looks a lot more similar to the Levy/ Mahoney/ Chiang/ Arkancide kind of political killing we have seen so much of...than to the pretty picture we have been given on the surface.

If I am wrong, I have once again entertained you for an evening by giving you somebody to shoot at.

I warned you that this was the bare-bones outline of the crime, that I was writing from memory, and that more detail is very available on search engines if anyone wants it. Those stories, BTW, however, tend to differ from each other as much as mine does from any one of them, so be forewarned!

I didn't point out your error in the name of the lodge. I was pointing out more substantive errors that go to the heart of your silly theory. You say there isn't evidence they EVER CAMPED IN THE PARK (you put this in capital letters), when there are numerous photos of them at various points on trails, that require hiking to get to, between May 19 and May 24. You say they extended their camping permit on May 24, when it was actually May 22. You say the father called park police on May 27, when it wasn't until May 30. You say their campsite was 200 yards from Skyland Lodge (practically in the yard, as you call it) , when it was 880 yards (a half-mile). You claim they were not "marvels of strength or physical stamina," when they were experienced backcountry hikers. And because of that, they knew how to make camp so as not to be seen by others.

As for the guy accused of the crime, you say there is no evidence he was in the park, or even in the state of Virginia, when the crimes were committed. Well, he was certainly in the park when the search for the missing women was taking place. As he says in his own words, "We went hiking like right in the middle of the search party." And you point out that the woman he was tried and convicted of assaulting (for some odd reason you put the word "assault" in quotation marks) was Canadian, as if the attack on her took place in Canada. It took place right in Shenandoah National Park, near Skyline Drive.

You seem to fall back on faulty memory as if that makes your misstatements of fact unimportant. Yet you use all this to make the claim that "this murder looks a lot more similar to the Levy/ Mahoney/ Chiang/ Arkancide kind of political killing we have seen so much of." Other than the fact that Williams and Winans were lesbians and so was Caitlin Mahoney, there is nothing, nada, zilch that makes these murders "similar." You might as well claim that the dog that killed the lesbian in California was secretly owned and trained by Gary Condit.