“You have three independent witnesses. Not people knew each other, not people who could be mistaken, three witnesses who at one point, after midnight, after 2 in the morning, see a man with a small enough frame that could go through a window carrying a baby in October with nothing on but a diaper,” Tacopina told www.lobbyistsofficesofgrw.wordpress.com.
Witnesses could not have been mistaken?
Tacopina says the witnesses weren’t people who could be mistaken. What? The human witnesses he speaks of could be mistaken. Then there’s the video, which records a human form but linking it to the Lisa Irwin case could be a mistake. No baby is visible in the blurry footage, nor are any features that would help identify the subject. Of course, the video is not mistaken in the sense that it’s a record of something, but it could be mistakenly associated with baby Lisa’s disappearance.
If the reports were accurate baby Lisa sightings
The video is so blurry it’s hard to make out, yet Tacopina would have us believe it’s a man with a frame so small he’d fit through the Irwins’ window. That would be the window police determined was an unlikely point of entry. The same one that had a screen in it after the alleged kidnapping. So if we buy Tacopina’s story, we have to believe a kidnapper came in through a window, then replaced the screen before completing the kidnapping.
But the improbableness keeps growing. Let’s look at the time frame of what Tacopina would have us believe are unassailable witness reports.
First Sighting
At 12:15 a.m. Oct. 4 , a couple living four doors from the Irwins said they saw a tall, thin, possibly bald, man in dark pants and a white T-shirt carrying a baby who appeared to be clad only in a diaper. This neighbor who used only her first name, Lisa, in media interviews, said the man was very tall (though she estimated his height at 5-foot-8 to 6-foot). This is the most important of the alleged witness sightings, if accurate and linked to the Irwin baby disappearance, because it establishes the probable time of the removal of baby Lisa from the Irwin home.
The mother’s remembrance of the time is probably accurate because her husband was leaving for work. She said in a Monday interview she and her husband were unable to tell if the baby was dead or alive. She also said her husband, who was outside the house, said he heard no noise from the baby.
Two hours later and four blocks away
The surveillance video was taken four blocks away, two hours after the neighbors’ sighting. If it should prove to depict a man carrying baby Lisa, it would mean one of two things: the man who took her from the Irwin home didn’t leave the neighborhood for two hours or left and came back with the baby. Does either scenario sound like something a kidnapper would do?
If the surveillance video shows a man linked to baby Lisa’s disappearance coming out of the woods without her, the natural implication is that he left her- or her body- in the woods. At that point, we would assume the story is complete, except that nearly two hours later at 4 a.m., three miles away, there’s yet another sighting of a man with a near-naked baby. So if an enhanced version of the video doesn’t show a baby in the man’s arms, it’s likely a coincidence. If the man is carrying a baby, is he a kidnapper?
4 a.m. witness sighting
Another witness, Mike Thompson, says he saw a man with a baby in a diaper three miles away almost two hours after the surveillance video was taken. This would suggest that the scenario in which the man on the surveillance video left the baby’s body in the woods is improbable. So now we’re left with a kidnapper walking around with a baby- or a baby’s body- for four hours. Why would any kidnapper or baby killer nonchalantly walk around for four hours carrying the evidence of his crime in plain view?
When you think about who might carry a dead baby’s body around, the most obvious answer is chilling- someone reluctant to part with it, i.e., someone who knew baby Lisa.
There’s no way of knowing what really happened to baby Lisa at this point, but the likelihood that the human witnesses and surveillance video all spotted a kidnapper seems nil.
