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Reading the FBI's criminal complaint I deduce the following which has heretofore not been discussed:
1. The 2 hikers who posted the YouTube video, identified in the complaint as Hiker #1 and Hiker #2, were the same 2 accosted by the defendant in Unicoi County;
2. The female victim ran south b/c at the onset of the attack, she just ran for her life as the defendant was killing her male companion. The defendant ran after her, stabbed her, and she played dead. She just continued south b/c to do otherwise would have required her to go back thru the camp where the defendant had returned;
3. The police probably made Hikers 1 and 2 remove the video b/c they are eye witnesses to the attack and all prior statements by witnesses in federal court are subject to Discovery and cross examination by the defense.
If I am correct, and Hikers 1 & 2 are the two hikers from the prior incident who refused to cooperate with law enforcement for the sake of their own convenience, they have a lot to answer for.....
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Nothing from the criminal complaint suggests in any way that any of the four hikers from VA were involved in the previous incident in Unicoi.
Nor has any media coverage suggested or stated that.
I may be overstepping my bounds here, but given the prior advice from the WB administrator that victims' families and friends are reading threads about the attack and in some cases upset by them, it might be the better course of action not to speculate, especially if the speculation suggests that the victims are to blame for the incident. My two cents, and again please forgive me if I'm talking out of turn.
I was also wondering if the two in the video were the same two who Odie interviewed about the prior harrassment.
It is what it is.
Jordan had run-ins with lots of hikers and given his state of mind, I'm not sure he'd remember specific people from several
weeks back and especially encountering them at night. One of the articles I saw said Jordan was asking hikers at one of the
road crossings what the password was to hike on the AT and was waiting around for someone to tell him. This dude was out
past Neptune somewhere.
This is devastating and those involved and their families have my sympathies.
Speculating on who's at fault and whether anyone brought this upon themselves is no help.
We'll learn more details of this sad story soon enough.
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I wish this thread was done.
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I wish some hikers would have taken out the threat them self's.
Time is but the stream I go afishin' in.
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https://www.backpacker.com/news-and-...james-l-jordan
Fair warning, it says nothing to support BlackCloud's interpretation.
I found it here:
https://www.scribd.com/document/4097...vit#from_embed
I agree. It doesn't fit BlackCloud's interpretation.
Time is but the stream I go afishin' in.
Thoreau