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23rd February 2015, 11:45 PM | #161 |
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Almost all of the petrol stations between Petone & Palmie have forecourt video and Lundy's car doesn't appear on any of them. The ones that don't are small affairs that do very little business. When questioned by the Police, no-one working at any of them recalls serving Lundy on the night in question.
----- I think it is also important to understand just how misleading it is to talk about "average speeds" on a journey like this. Lundy is supposed to have averaged 117 km/h to Palmy, committed the crimes, cleaned up and driven back to Petone averaging of 120 km/h. This doesn't sound very difficult but it is nigh on impossible, and I'll explain why, and how the jury were grossly mislead by the Crown Prosecutor. Lundy was definitely in Petone at 5:30 PM, and again at 8.28 PM (both confirmed by phone calls) That leaves him a window of 2hr 58 min (178 min) to drive from Petone to Palmy, commit the crimes, clean up and drive back to Petone, a total distance of 300 km. We need to subtract some time to do everything other than driving.... - running (or rather hobbling) from where he parked his car some distance away, to his house - killing his wife & child - cleaning himself up thoroughly to remove all trace of blood from his body - resetting the computer to shut down at a later time - hobbling back to his car This would conservatively be 45min to complete all that, leaving him 133 minutes for the drive time on the both legs of the trip. To travel 300km in 133 min gives an overall average speed of about 135 km/hr. However, this doesn't take into account the parts of the journey which MUST be traveled at much lower speeds. There are a number of traffic lights at both ends of the journey, several major 50 km/hr zones where such excessive speeds would have been very noticeable, and a large number of bends and corners on the open road that simply could not be taken at this speed, and finally, that stretch of road contains several "Speed Camera Zones" which in those days were marked with a road sign. There is simply no way that he could take a risk of being snapped by a hidden speed camera or the game would have been up, so he would be forced to rigidly stick to the speed limit in those zones. I estimate that about 1/3 of the journey would have been done at an average of about 80 km/hr. The upshot of this is that that he would need to have to have spent a greater proportion of his journey at much higher speeds in order to maintain his average speed at 135 km/hr. This is a mathematical phenomenon known as the "subcontrary mean" http://www.quora.com/How-does-the-ha...rary-mean-work Now here is where it gets interesting. If Lundy traveled a conservative 1/3 of 300km at an average of 80 km/hr then this 100 km of the journey would take 75 minutes. His total drive time allowed was 133 minutes so we subtract the 75 minutes, leaving him 58 minutes to drive the remaining 200 km... he would need to average 207 km/hr....for almost an hour. If anyone tried to do that during the rush hour, even if he was lucky enough to not be seen by the police, people with mobile phones would have been calling *555 to report him. Its little wonder that the Police were unable to duplicate this feat themselves, even with the skilled drivers they have at their disposal. The aspect of the subcontrary mean ought to have been explained to the Jury.. it wasn't, so the jury was effectively mislead by the Crown. |
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24th February 2015, 12:20 AM | #162 |
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The solution is obvious, spend another 3 million dollars on a more implausible case. I hope you feel you are getting value from these people, because don't forget they prosecuted a totally impossible case for Ewen MacDonald not a year or two ago.
I have been checking other cases without quite appreciating the absurdity of behaviour in my own back yard. This is all unbelievable. |
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24th February 2015, 01:22 AM | #164 |
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Hard Cheese, analysis here is good. I discovered this forum by accident, through the Amanda Knox case, and I have realised that there are serial problems in prosecutorial foolishness and misconduct globally. Check some other cases here, and wade in, the forum loves new contributors.
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24th February 2015, 01:30 AM | #165 |
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personally think Lundy is as innocent as Bain
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Even if one thinks Lundy had a motive and could have made this frantic drive and pulled this off somehow, there is not one shred of credible evidence he did so. The whole case comes down to conjecture - he's the logical suspect, so it must have been him, and who cares if there's no good evidence and one must strain credulity to make it even remotely possible.
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Atheist I agree with Teina, but the two others push my limits of sympathy
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This is a highly irrational, indeed a faith-based position. You're sure Lundy is guilty, for reasons you're not going to explain, although you haven't followed the evidence. Definitely faith-based. Those of us who are looking at the evidence are entirely open to the possibility that he may be guilty, but simply cannot see any practical possibility of his having committed the crime. He appears to have an alibi. If there is a way to break this alibi it is not apparent at the moment. And yet, if this was the work of an accomplice, allowing Lundy to establish an alibi, the alibi simply isn't good enough. The very fact that he was convicted ten years ago testifies to that. Nobody who was aware that an accomplice was murdering his wife and child that evening would have made so few telephone calls, been seen by so few people, or even moved his car from its conspicuous parking spot. I mean, who calculates, well I can leave a gap of 2 hours unaccounted for because surely nobody would imagine I could have got back and done the deed in that time? He'd have made sure someone saw him, just in case. So is this a claim of clairvoyance, or what? I thought they rejected the first witness who claimed to be clairvoyant. |
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24th February 2015, 03:53 PM | #176 |
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I'm wondering whose posting is really based on faith, because it has nothing to with my position.
Ever read Sherlock Holmes? When you eliminate the impossible, no matter how improbable the alternative will be the truth. You "cannot see any practical possibility of him committing the crime", based on incomplete and flawed evidence. Nice work. |
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How much incredulity would it take for Lundy to have had an accomplice make a conference call from Petone for him?
How much incredulity would it take for an accomplice to have made the Petone call at 5:43 pm? That gives Lundy a further 45 minutes, easily sufficient time. How much incredulity would it take to have Christine and Amber stay up late and eat leftover McDonalds at 10 or 11 pm? There are an enormous number of variables. |
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And that's what we're discussing in this thread, believe it or not. The difference seems to be that the rest of the posters here have open minds, and don't approach the debate already certain they know the answer.
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Evidence?
Evidence? 1. Evidence? 2. Have your ever eaten cold/rewarmed Maccas? 3. How hard would it be to persuade a 7 year old to wait four hours for Maccas. Yes there are. There are also glaring inconsistencies in the crown case. ► There is the DNA of two unknown male individuals under the fingernails of BOTH Christine and Amber. Unknown means they are not blood relatives. ► There is also the eye-witness account of David Stanley who works at the Petone Working’s Men’s Club. On the night that Lundy was meant to be murdering his wife and child, Mr Stanley says he saw Mark Lundy sitting on the foreshore in Petone reading a book at and after dusk (exactly what Lundy claimed he was doing at that time). Evening civil twilight (i.e. sunset) in Petone on August 29, 2000 was 5:53 pm. (Lundy was supposed by the Police to have already left for Palmerston North 23 minutes earlier, further cutting the available drive time to less than 110 minutes) If we do what you suggest, which is to throw out the rules of evidence and convict people through sheer guesswork, e.g. an accomplice making a conference call from Petone for him, an accomplice committing the crime, a hitman committing the crime, lawnmower petrol in the car, etc., all without a single shred of evidence, we could just about convict anyone of any crime. |
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This evidence was presented in Lundy's rejected 2002 appeal. Stanley said he saw Lundy reading in his car between 6:30 - 7:00 pm and he was still there half an hour after he finished his walk along the beach. So it appears to give Lundy a clear alibi for the high-speed murder trip. Stanley's testimony was discounted, and when you read the reasoning given by Justice Tipping I guarantee you will either shake your head sadly or laugh out loud:
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Check what I was responding to and you might notice I wasn't suggesting there was any evidence for any of those.
It's quite important to read what is actually written rather what you want to read. Ok, then don't try to change my points into something they didn't say. I deliberately paraphrased your "strain credulity" to make it even more obvious that's what I was responding to. We're all good now, though, which is lovely. |
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Staggering!!
I guess being a high court judge doesn't make him immune from being stupid. However it is not surprising to me given the comment made by the judge in the David Dougherty rape case (which you no doubt will be familiar with). Justice Ellison directed the jury "that the DNA evidence points both toward Dougherty and away from him" I mean, hello?? How do idiots like that ever get to serve on the bench!? |
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forms of potatoes
Maybe a New Zealander can help me out. In what form does McDonald's serve potatoes in your country? One thing that was a little unclear to me from reading about the autopsy. Was it "chips" that they saw, or was it french fries? If they observed potato chips, then this might have been from a later snack.
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Chips is chips, although I believe ignorant Yankees refer to them as "French fries". Once they're in your stomach, they're potato.
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A rose by any other name
Ignorant Yanks refer to them as "Freedom Fries." By potato chip, I meant a very thin wafer of potato (less than a millimeter in thickness, I would guess). To me "fish and chips" means a somewhat more thickly sliced potato. By fries, I meant oblong pieces of fries several inches long, often with a square profile when sliced perpendicular to the long axis.
What I was trying to get at was the question of whether or not what the pathologist found was what McDonald's sold or something else. |
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Crisps. I don't think McDonald's sell crisps. But it wasn't crisps that were found in the stomachs, it was potato, as one would expect with chips that were being digested.
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French fries always, about 1/4 inch square by a couple inches long. They are called chips. Flat crisps from sealed packets are also often called chips, but what was consumed here was almost certainly only french fries. Since it was a drive through, it's possible they were not consumed immediately in the vehicle, but taken home, though hard to see what delay would work for Christine to turn the lights out, unless they were put in oven to warm up, and another activity intervened before eating.
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There is a difference between "Chips" and "McDonalds Fries"
Chips, as in the type you usually get in "fish and chips", are potatoes sliced into sticks which are then either deep fried or baked. It is customary to prepare them and then cook them within a short time frame. McDonald Fries are potato mash extruded into chip like shape. The are held often held in shape using a chemical bonding agent and then frozen until used, which can be several days or even weeks. |
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They're still going to look like potato in a half-digested state though.
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It could do, although I would argue (with no evidence, sorry) that Maccas fries might digest a little more quickly, because they are essentially potato mash, while chips tend to be more solid potato.
I am unsure as to the effect that the bonding agent (dimethylpolysiloxane?) in extruded fries would have on digestion time. That is a question for coroner or a forensics expert. |
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The most improbable alternative will be the truth? Well that settles it then. Lundy wasn't driving his Falcon that night, he took the DeLorean!
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Dimethylpolysiloxane; time of death
From the Washington Post:
"'Dimethylpolysiloxane: it's a long word. It's the longest word on this list. And I know it sounds scary, but it's actually an anti foaming agent,' Imahara says casually, as though anti foaming agents are the sort of things grandmothers use to make lasagna. But nevermind about Dimethylpolysiloxane (which is actually a fairly innocuous additive that keeps oil from splashing). What's really problematic about this latest ad campaign is that it furthers the evidence that McDonald's doesn't get what its customers want." I don't know whether or not it would affect the appearance of or rate of digestion of McDonald's french fries, and I suspect no one else does, either. It is simply knowledge that is too specialized for someone to have turned the question into a research study. I am not an expert in gastroenterology, but I do read papers on the subject from time to time. More generally, I am still wavering on the actual TOD. I think that the computer might have been shut down by the virus and that the TOD was early. On the other hand, there was some witness testimony within the last week that suggested activity around 11. I am not sure what might account for the sound of breaking glass, but I am also not sure that it was related to the murder. "* Tupe Tupai, a neighbour, saw a light on in the house and a security light outside going on the night of the murders. He noticed a sliding door was open at the back of the property and at one point heard the sound of breaking glass." See also this link: "Tupe Tupai lived next door to the Lundys. About 11pm on August 29, 2000, he received a call from his father in Samoa and he stepped into the backyard to take the call. The area was lit up with the outside security lights from the Lundys' house and a light was also on inside the house. That night the conservatory door was also part open when it was usually closed. Tupai said he later heard a sound like smashing glass but he did not go outside and he did not know where the noise came from." |
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