<p>EPTR, If you stop the video just after the red dotted line is drawn, and again after the yellow dotted line is drawn, it makes sense. The map shows that the father would have turned left out of Chik-fil-A, and should have turned left again after just a few feet, to take a circuitous route to the child-care center. Instead, he went straight and arrived at his office a few minutes later. All of the locations are within half a mile of one another (although the distance from either CFA or the office to the child-care center was probably longer by road).</p>
<p>I think he would have been smarter to “find” his son in the HD lot. Then no one would have observed his actions. He could have just called 911 and waited for the police to come, when he could start his act.</p>
<p>They must know if he opened that email. I’m wondering if he did or not.</p>
<p>Somebody upthread mentioned that the fact that he was sexting at work that day could actually go in his favor. I’ve been wondering about the same thing. i guess because its not impossible for me to imagine that he killed his child but it is close to impossible for to believe that anyone could leave their child in a hot car with the intention of murdering him and then proceed to send sexy text messages to someone. Even if he has no conscience, as he admitted, wouldn’t he be somewhat stressed out or anxious about what he was doing? I do believe he’s guilty but i can see how the sexting thing might actually convince some people that he did not intend to leave the child in the car.</p>
<p>NYMomof2, I believe there are surveillance cameras in the HD parking lot. I think someone had mentioned cameras capturing him seeing someone walk by his car after he dropped off the lightbulbs and he turned around to watch the person walk by his car. So if he had stayed in the HD lot, all of his actions in “discovering” the baby would have been on camera.</p>
<p>That daycare email was just a group email. It wasn’t an email asking him where the baby was. His lawyer can successfully argue that a group email wouldn’t necessarily jar his memory of leaving the baby in the car.</p>
<p>I’m wondering what time he normally leaves work. If he had stayed later someone else might have noticed his son in the car in the parking lot when they were leaving. Perhaps originally he wanted someone else to find his son so it would really look like an accident. or maybe the plan was for his wife to get to the daycare , find that the child wasn’t there then she would call him and he would run out to the car screaming…This driving with the child in the car is just stupid. I don’t think it was part of the original plan…</p>
<p>He did so many stupid things. The only explanation I can think of is that he expected no one to even consider the possibility that he killed his son deliberately, and he expected no investigation of any kind. Just lots of sympathy.</p>
<p>As the sleep-deprived mom of a 3 month old I unpacked the groceries, cleaned some things out of the fridge, then sat down to take a break. Just then I realized to my horror that I had left my baby in the car. He wasn’t in any danger. It was a cool day, the car was in our driveway, far from the road and I had left the car door next to him open, I assume because I wanted to be able to hear him if he woke up while I was lugging the bags into the house, but I was aghast that I was so tired that I could forget this little guy whom I loved more than life itself.</p>
<p>Perhaps the difference between my story and one resulting in tragedy is that I would never have left a baby strapped into a car seat in a hot car. Had the day not been cool I would surely have risked waking him by bringing him into the house before the groceries.</p>
<p>That map route drawn makes no sense, since it doesnt show any route to the Home Depot headquarters, which is presumably where he works, unless he doesnt work on the grounds proper. Dont know if they have any IT offices off site. And the route they have drawn to/from his condo is not what anyone who lives there would take. They would take Terrell Mill to Cobb pkwy (US 41) to either Windy Hill or Spring Rd (listed as Spring Hill Rd). NOT the highway.</p>
<p>He works at an annex building not at the headquarters. His building is called “The House”
Home Depot Treehouse. Office. 2600 Cumberland Pkwy SE, Atlanta, GA 30339.</p>
<p>OK- He’s in one of the office buildings on Cumberland Parkway. So depending on which way he drives to work, he’d probably usually drive first to the daycare (my guess, again, is that he’d come down Spring Road to Paces Ferry Rd). If so, and if he usually dropped his son off first, I wonder how many times he hit the Chick-Fil-A before going to his office. If he did that on any regular basis, he’d turn right from Paces Ferry to go to Chick Fil-A and then afterward go straight across Paces Ferry to his office. I wonder if he was “distracted” by any testing/sexting during or after his stop at Chick-Fil-a that could have caused him to follow what would have been a “usual” routine to his office.</p>
<p>He was supposed to go to meet friends after work (wife was supposed to pick up the child) so his turning up Cumberland parkway towards the movie makes sense. BUT, he’d have to make a RIGHT out of his parking lot and a RIGHT around the mall to Cobb Parkway/Akers Mill, where he claims he was making a right and only then noticed his son.</p>
<p>So I am confused, is the daycare center in the same direction as his office from the parking lot of Chick-Fil-A? If not, then he has even more to explain. </p>
<p>Here’s something that’s been bothering me that no one else has mentioned.</p>
<p>When he got back in the car after breakfast at Chick-Fil-A, wouldn’t his 22-month-old son have been jabbering up a storm? I know my kids at that age would have been chatting like crazy. And even if not, when Dad got out of the car and started walking away, wouldn’t the kid have started yelling, “Daddy, Daddy!!” There’s no way the kid would have been asleep after a only 2-minute car ride. </p>
<p>Think of a cross ( or a lower case “t” ). The Chick Fil a is just below center (just below the intersection) on the bottom side, the daycare to the left on the “t”, and his office towards the top above the intersection.</p>