Post by mustangman on Oct 27, 2018 15:46:55 GMT
PULLING UP CAR PLATES
When car plates are pulled up by LE, it is always recorded. A database will show what scanner was used and the time the plate info was retrieved.
If the CPK was LE, he could create a cover by leaving the vehicles somewhere they would be seen right away by a patrol car, and in a manner in which the patrol office would feel the need to pull up the plate info. The officer would then pull up the plate on his own scanner.
David Knobling's truck - in parking lot, left unattended with wipers and radio on, glove compartment open, 2 unused condoms on dashboard, and keys in ignition.
Keith Call's car - parked right on a patrol route, left unattended with door open, gold watch on dashboard, purse on front seat, and keys on driver's seat.
Daniel Laurer's car - left half on the sidewalk, half on the road, in truck-use only area, in front of a NO PARKING sign, windows down, keys in ignition, unattended.
If investigators are aware that when plates are scanned by cops are recorded, and would want to check to see if anyone pulled up the plates of a MISSING COUPLE to ticket them or for any other reason, without this cover it would show the last scan on the plates were done at 11:45 P.M. on Friday. The investigators would then trace the scanner to the cop who was using the patrol car of that scanner on that date at that time. But with the cover created of leaving the vehicle parked where it shouldn't have been, unattended and with all those odd details (open door, cars in ignition, purse on seat, radio on, etc.), a trooper would definitely scan the plate, and that officer's scan would then be the last one recorded and seen by investigators.
This would be a clever cover and it would be a reason the cars were separated from the victims then left in spots in manners they'd be seen right away by a passing patrolman. Left right on their routes. This could also explain why the male victims owned the vehicles they were driving (not borrowed, not mom's or dad's or a big brother's, etc.).
I wonder if records still exist on the plate scanners database for David's, Keith's and Daniel's car plates. 1987-1989 is not that long ago. Each and every time LE pulls up car plates, the activity and the scanner used is recorded. There would be records of the troopers pulling up the plates when the cars were first found, and there'd be any other ones prior to that. If the CPK was LE and did scan those plates, the scanner database will show it.
The FBI should look into this.
Yes, there should be some kind of record to go back and check if anyone called in for info on the Victims Plates. I am not sure about if LE in Virginia back in the late 80's had onboard computers, I think most police back then would pull over a car and radio in the plate number to the Police Dispatcher to get the info on the driver. I do know that all radio transmissions made to the Dispatch officer are to be recorded. Do these records still exist? Maybe the CPK called in the Victims plate numbers days before any attack, so not to get caught, if investigators back then looked at the Dispatch tapes?
IMHO if the records still exist, investigators should look to see if the Plate numbers of the Victims were ever called in, not just 1986-89, but many years prior. Maybe this has already been done, and LE just hasn't told us?
