[moehoward]

"if GZ only observed him running due west i.e., from C to E."

Unless he saw him running down the street.

[Reese Hamm]

GZ would have had to have seen TM make the southward turn from his vehicle. Barely five seconds had lapsed from "he's running" to giving the dispatcher the direction TM ran. The distance from one road to the other looks to be about 60 yards. (World record for the 100 yard dash is over 9 seconds and that's under controlled conditions. We know that TM was wearing jeans and a hoodie and likely running on a damp sidewalk at best, over wet grass at worst, hardly ideal running conditions.)

But again, the points hinge on how close TM was to GZ when he took off. If he came close enough to check GZ out, that implies that he was closer to the junction of the road where GZ was parked and the beginning of the cut through. If he took off from that point, it seems that turning between the building would better fit the time and GZ's observation of his direction. Taking the first available turn (the sidewalk between the buildings) and breaking line of sight would also make more sense than running in a direction that would give GZ a sustained line of sight. The E point on the blogger's map/timeline just doesn't make sense to me.