"Undisclosed's" tower coverage map error post followup: Did Susan Simpson and Rabia Chaudry deceive MSNBC viewers with their depiction of L689B?
For the uninitiated, L689B is the infamous "Leakin Park Burial Site" sector, the cell tower sector that Adnan's cell pinged on the evening of Hae's disappearance, picking up the cell tower that one would expect to pick up if Jay and Adnan were indeed disposing of Hae's body that evening.
This map was presented on MSNBC's "The Docket" by SS and Rabia as a recreation of a trial exhibit, with SS and Rabia adding in the marker boundaries and labels:
http://i.imgur.com/771wn3V.jpg
Notice how the boundaries of L689B take a significant dogleg southward.
This map was also briefly shown on "The Docket" as "Exhibit 33, as it should have been depicted", and it shows the same L689B shape and dogleg.
http://i.imgur.com/FmPGZV9.jpg
It's probably already obvious if you're paying attention, but plotting these A/B/C sectors:
http://i.imgur.com/z3y85RJ.jpg
Where's sector L652C if not encompassing half of undisclosed's version of the L689B sector?
I submit that a coverage map that hadn't been falsified by the Adnan Syed Legal Trust would look something like this:
http://i.imgur.com/j11pjCe.jpg
Thereby almost halving the coverage area for the L689B tower.
Disappointing, cynical stuff from a group who have this on their "About" page: We want our listeners to know that this podcast will not give you purely pro-Adnan information or intentionally slant it in his favor. We will present a smart, nuanced legal argument based on the totality of the facts in the case. As attorneys, we pride ourselves on looking dispassionately at facts, analyzing those facts, and applying the appropriate law in our analysis.
ETA: Link to "The Docket" appearance: http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc-news/watch/susan--their-case-falls-apart-517334595604
ETA2: Something else I noticed, the strike of the boundaries between sector "A" and sector "B" seem to be awfully close to 90° with the exception of L689 and the L653 sector (and L653C boundaries are frankly a guesstimation on my part, as it springs out of the falsified L689B data).
See here: http://i.imgur.com/Ov0yahk.jpg
I measured the angle between the A/C contact and the A/B contact and came up with these values for each sector shown: http://i.imgur.com/sEr70XK.jpg
Again, L689 and L653 are odd at 103 degrees. Excluding those two, the mean angle is ~116.25°... which is about what you'd expect out of a system with three sectors that need 360° coverage.
If we add those 13 extra degrees to L689A it looks like this: http://i.imgur.com/izqZARt.gifv
Posted Oct 16, 2015, 7:11 AM UTC · edited