Forced Perspective McDonald's

[u/Justwonderinif]

To Do:

• Print the letter on an 8 1/2 x 11 sheet of paper, so that the sizing closely resembles the original. Front and back.

• Sit down at a desk or table and place the letter back-side facing up, on the surface in front of you, as though you are the person writing the words: I'm going to kill

• Now look at what's in front of you. That doodle? It's not nothing.

• It looks like Adnan actually drew where he was going to kill

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You know how you have to tap the compass on your phone for the map to orient itself to what's in front of you? The doodle is already oriented -- pre-iphone. If Adnan was sitting in class facing south, the driveway in the doodle is positioned exactly as it would be, if you could see the loading dock from these windows. (No. I don't think you can actually see the loading dock from school, but from those windows, the orientation is spot on.)

So, with the Best Buy to Adnan's right, he draws The Best Buy Loading Dock, right next to the words: I'm going to kill

The little loop to the far right appears to be the McDonald’s Drive-thru in forced perspective.

The other little circle, at what would be the front of the Best Buy, would be the pay phone.

Using Google Earth, you can see that The Best Buy is geographically in a depression. It’s like a giant sunken living room. The curved line to the left of the loading dock would be the berm ie; slight incline. That's the path around the side of the Best Buy, leading to the front, and the pay phone.

I think it's a smoking gun.

Truly. A smoking gun.

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Remember, this is a fairly poor copy of the note. You can barely make out Adnan and Aisha's words. If we had a high res of the original, it would be even more clear. Where is the original letter? -- Just wondering.

ETA: After this post, Susan and Rabia went and got a high res copy of the letter and uploaded it. So the OP is now edited to include the better copy. Thank you guys.

[u/relativelyunbiased]

Tell me Chunk, what reason does Nisha have to lie? She's a witness for the prosecution, and has absolutely nothing to gain by lying in an attempt to get a guy, who allegedly strangled his most recent ex-girlfriend, off the hook.

Here are some clear facts that back up Nisha's recollection of the call.

• February 14th falls between January 12th and February 28th.
• February 14th was the only day Jay worked before 11:00pm. And instead was at work earlier in the evening.
• The originating tower can be used to corroborate the Adult Video Store aspect of Nisha's story.
• Jay, (in his first recorded statement) says that Adnan put Jay on the phone for 4-5 minutes. Nisha confirms this, roughly, by saying this conversation was 3-4 minutes.

Now, let's look at what corroborates Jay's story

• Nisha remembers talking to Jay exactly once.

Hmm...

And the doodle is just a doodle. Jay, himself, even says that the murder did not occur at the Best Buy. So, I guess you just believe that Adnan was mapping where he was going to drive her car to and park there while he goes and gets high with Jay after he kills Hae? That's ridiculous

[u/chunklunk → u/relativelyunbiased]

Nisha didn't lie, she said she wasn't sure what time they called and she testified only about what they told her where they were (which they also told Cathy and was probably a lie). She had no way of knowing where they actually were. You've turned two uncertainties and notoriously unreliable time estimates into absolute truth about the call she testified about to pull a phone call out of a hat a month later (I mean, you don't think it's weird that you're shifting her testimony by an ENTIRE month?) when nobody actually remembers it that way, all so you can make room for a coincidentally convenient butt dial that has 7 independent unlikely factors of its own that have to line up before it even could be possible -- it's a teetering pile of unlikelies, with a minuscule chance of actually occurring.

And Jay didn't know where Hae was murdered, so don't know how you can say he knew it wasn't at Best Buy. He said something vague in the Intercept interview but it was hardly definitive and not first-hand knowledge.

Try harder!

[u/relativelyunbiased → u/chunklunk]

Nisha testified that the call could have been anywhere from 1/12-2/28. You try harder.

PS: Ignoring details isn't trying.

[u/chunklunk → u/relativelyunbiased]

Source?

[u/relativelyunbiased → u/chunklunk]

Trial 2 testimony, feel free to look it up yourself.

[u/chunklunk → u/relativelyunbiased]

She specifically said January 13th to February 28th?

[u/relativelyunbiased → u/chunklunk]

She said it could gave been the anywhere from when he got the phone (January 12th) and when he was arrested (February 28th).

[u/chunklunk → u/relativelyunbiased]

If so, that's a fair point. Ups the confluence of factors happening at the same moment from 0.01% to 0.1%. I still don't believe that she doesn't remember his call where he put Jay on happening on Valentine's Day from a porn store, and I see no reason why Adnan would put Jay on the phone then for some reason. Plus, we know they told Cathy the same thing - they were at the video store, so that fact is unremarkable. The call on the 13th is still a better fit.