Post by cleopatra on Aug 16, 2019 17:29:22 GMT
Excerpt from article with interviews:
"Richard Call was on his way to work the morning of April 10, 1988, when he spotted his 20-year-old son’s car parked on the York River Overlook turnoff on the parkway and stopped to investigate. The driver’s side door was slightly ajar, the keys weren’t in the ignition, and a purse belonging to 18-year-old Cassandra Hailey, Keith Call’s date, was on the passenger seat. Richard Call figured the pair had walked down to the beach, so he drove on to work.
Park rangers, Plott said, had already discovered the Toyota Celica and initially thought it had been abandoned. They later told the FBI that they’d taken the key out of the ignition, gone through some of its contents to an attempt to locate the owners, and taken both victims’ clothing from the backseat. When they realized Keith Call and Hailey were unaccounted for, they tried to put everything back the way they’d found it."
Before 7AM – Ranger stopped at car. Door wide open. Key in ignition. Takes key. Takes clothes and other personal belongings.
7AM – Mr. Call stopped at car. No key in ignition. No clothes, no personal items. 3 beers and a gray coat.
Why did the ranger leave the door unlocked and slightly ajar? Why did the ranger take everything, including the bra and shoes, but leave behind the gray coat?
If the timeline above is correct, then my guess as to why the rangers removed the clothes is that they assumed that two kids were out skinny dipping or running around naked in the immediate area and when found they would need their clothes. Rather than walking naked back to the car with the ranger, the ranger probably thought he would try to avoid that awkward situation and bring the clothes to them. (Remember that these rangers are not true police officers and are not trained as such.)
Perhaps the ranger left the door unlocked and ajar in case the two occupants returned to the car while the ranger was searching for them. Door unlocked so they wouldn’t be locked out while naked, and door ajar so they knew someone was coming back soon (also maybe he thought if he shut the door it may automatically lock). He also found the car with the door open so he probably figured it was left that way for a reason.
formerlurker,
This subject was discussed over and over again throughout this thread. It kept coming up over and over, and it is a dominant subject within this thread, along with the subject of the dog tracks.
You asked, "Did the rangers arrive before or after Mr. Call?" The answer is: Before AND after. Supposedly, and this has been debated heavily in this thread, a ranger saw the car BEFORE 7 A.M..
7AM
Mr. Call, Keith's dad, was on his way to work to Anheuser-Busch, Inc. Every morning he took the Parkway to get to work. Mr. Call spotted Keith's red Toyota Celica, which he gave Keith for his high school graduation present. He stopped. The door was slightly ajar. He opened it and leaned inside to take a look and saw nothing out of the ordinary. There were only three beers on top of a gray jacket on the floor behind the drivers seat. Mr. Call thought Keith just took off with some friends and would be back shortly. He was perturbed that Keith left the car their unattended. He was running late, so he just shut the door and continued on to work.
7:15-7:30AM
The ranger said the door was wide open, key was in ignition, bra and purse on front passenger seat, a man's wallet on back seat, watch and prescription glasses on dashboard, shoes on floor, clothes neatly folded on back seat. The ranger gathered all the clothes and personal belongings and continued patrolling in his car. Before driving off, he jotted down the license plate.
9AM
The ranger arrived back at the station. He told the other rangers about the car and showed them the clothes. He called the phone number on Sandra's checkbook and Sandra's mother answered. The rangers realized the kids were missing. The ranger went back to the car and replaced everything, putting them back exactly as they were found. Other rangers arrived. All the rangers went down to the beach to search for the couple. They believed the kids went skinny dipping.
LATER
In the car were: key in ignition, eye glasses and watch on the dashboard, bra and purse on front passenger's seat, clothes neatly folded on back seat, Keith's wallet on back seat, Keith's pair of shoes, only one boot of Sandra's, ONLY ONE BEER, NO GRAY JACKET.
NOTE:
It was only after 2 days that the rangers finally admitted to the FBI agents that one of them had removed then returned the clothes and other items.
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In my previous post, I wrote that the ranger arrived BEFORE 7AM, but that's incorrect. I always thought that, because I knew the rangers took the clothes out then returned them after Mr. Call stopped at the car. But the ranger said he stopped at Keith's car around 7:15 A.M., and that he took the clothes and other personal items out in order to secure them. Other posters of this board, as well as myself, have all been trying to get to the bottom of this whole removing of clothing business. If the above timeline is what happened, then it means the killer returned to the car right after Mr. Call left and before the ranger pulled up, and he did it in broad daylight. It would mean: 7AM Mr. Call stopped. Between 7-7:15AM Killer returned and placed everything in car then left. 7:15 Ranger arrived, saw all the things the killer just placed in car, and took everything out.