<p>“He pulled him out, laid him on the ground, and tried to resuscitate him,” Hamilton said.</p>
<p>Restaurant patrons and others in the shopping center gathered on the sidewalks, hoping for the best. It didn’t happen.</p>
<p>“He was lifeless, he was in the same position as if he were sitting in the carseat,” Hamilton said. “It’s something
that I’ll remember for a long time.”</p>
<p>They said rigamortis had set in. I thought I recalled the reporter saying in her interview that he was in the carseat on the pavement but this was from memory. </p>
<p>That must have been very traumatizing to see… Of course, lack of emotions is not a proof that they did it, but how can one stay so stone cold and calm as these parents did in this situation?! </p>
<p>The daycare was ON the Home Depot premises. His daily routine was to drop his son off there first. In some of these cases, it’s when the routine is broken that the forgetting occurs. I would think the more likely scenario for someone like him would be to go to the daycare without the kid on a day the boy was home sick with his wife–not to fail to stop by on his way into the office.</p>
<p>He went out with two friends for lunch, and they decided to ride in one of the other coworkers’ cars. They presumably stopped somewhere (a HD retail store, maybe?) for him to buy lightbulbs. But if that was the only thing he bought, why did he have to stop by his car to put them in there right away? It’s not like he had heavy lumber or something bulky that would have been inconvenient to carry into his office and then back out again at the end of the day. If he was trying to kill his son, he clearly couldn’t have offered to drive the others. But I think he wanted a reason to go to his car (to see if the child was dead), and the lightbulbs gave him one.</p>
<p>And finally, this guy is big–tall and solid. Presumably he would notice the heat quickly upon getting in any car, either the coworker’s at lunchtime, his own right after lunch, or his own at the end of the day. Given that “people dying in cars” was presumably on his mind, it would seem reasonable that any association with a hot car would trigger the “fear” he had of this happening to someone in his life.</p>
<p>Do they have him on camera putting the light bulbs in the car? I wonder if there is any surveillance video of him parking the car in the morning or of him going to it midday.</p>
<p>I thought they had video of him backing into his spot. Corporate headquarters is pretty monitored. Also, the flagship store is just across the highway from headquarters and that’s where they said he bought the bulbs. </p>
<p>In the ajc today a former co-worker stated that he had told them that he couldn’t hear in 1 ear and he couldn’t smell at all. So either the co worker is trying to give him an out or there is a chance that he didn’t smell his dead son.</p>
<p>I think he did do it and it was premeditated. I think that he planned on “finding” his son when his friends came to pick him up to go to lunch but decided his son might not be dead yet. I think he checked the car by throwing in the light bulbs after lunch but either heard something or still wasn’t sure he was dead so he left.</p>
<p>What kind of grieving parent says that, rather than something like, “he’ll miss riding the bus to school…his first date…getting his driver’s license…growing up with grandparents and other family who adore him”?</p>
<p>This kind of supports my theory that they might have thought they were sparing him the suffering of growing up in an unhappy situation.</p>
<p>Regarding smell, I’m guessing that is in reference to the sphincter muscles relaxing upon death?</p>
<p>However, not that I think he is innocent, but some people can’t smell.
Whether that is a problem with receptors or brain function, I’m not sure.</p>
<p>Wow, how could he even try to pull this off as accidental? He forgot to take his son to daycare, and then forgot about him being in the back seat after a HALF MILE car ride?? What is that, maybe two minutes?? I don’t think the death penalty is good enough for this loser.</p>
<p>That, to me is the most provocative piece of evidence. Usually, when someone forgets their child it is because their routine does not normally involve dropping the child at day care. In this case, he did it every day!!! Why would he forget on this particular day? And then never realize it at any time during the day?! No way.</p>
<p>Did they say whether it is evident that he opened the email from the day care? I know he received one but wonder if they can tell if he read it.</p>
<p>Emeraldkity, at the probable cause hearing, the detective stated that the car smelled like the decomposition of a body. I don’t really understand how that can happen so quickly but it may have something to do with the extreme heat.</p>
<p>ML - the loser does not have to be sentenced to death since he is not a general threat to society (IMO, death sentence should be reserved only for those). All he needs is some tough and rough cell mates who would definitely treat him as the scum he is.</p>
<p>I have very little sense of smell due to an issue with my sinuses (which makes it darned convenient to clean up after babies and dogs!). But I am sure even I would have detected that out by the end of the day… and I think he got in the car and drove for a bit before stopping, too.</p>
<p>You know, if he hadn’t murdered his child (assuming he did), he was still “sexting” with at least one girl the age of some of our daughters. That in itself would be likely to get him some extra attention in prison.</p>
<p>it came out on the hearing that when he put the lightbulbs in the car, he kind of turned his head in the direction of the car seat (according to surveillance video). Then as he was walking back to the car, someone walked past him in the other direction heading towards his car. He stopped, kind of started, and waited until the other person walked past his car before getting on his phone and walking back to working.</p>
<p>This guy has guilt written all over him. He’s a total loser and an absolute monster to do this to his own (extremely adorable) child, but he’s also really stupid to think he could get away with this blatant of a murder.</p>
<p>As I mentioned upthread, the shopping center where he stopped is 2 miles from his office. And, there is a large mall in between the two locations with plenty of parking where he could have also pulled over. The news said he pulled into the first ace he could. That’s nonsense. It’s on the opposite side of the street. </p>