Breaking News: Sean Phillips Wore Different Shoes

[XLFD]

Phillips Wore Other Shoes to Hospital Earlier in Day Baby Kate Went Missing

Botanical Search Likely to Germinate Only Twisted Ankles and Mosquito Bites 

 

New evidence recently made publicly available to this reporter, seem to indicate that the shoes that Sean Phillips (Baby Kate's father) wore earlier in the day just before he went to see Ariel Courtland, were not the same dirty shoes that were found at Sean Phillips' home later that day.  Those shoes have been used to implicate him as having 'secretly confined' Baby Kate in an April 2012 trial, and the plants found thereon have been a springboard used to justify a botanical search taking place at the end of this month to find an area where Baby Kate may have been placed by Phillips.   

 

Here is a prior thread dealing with the issues of Sean's shoes:  a-broken-trail-the-shoes-of-sean-Phillips complete with pictures of the shoes he is assumed to have worn the day where he has been presumed to have secreted Baby Kate somewhere in the wilderness.  One would think that if you were to call 80 plant experts to our area to look for evidence found on shoes in order to locate a missing baby, you would want to be using the shoes he wore that meaningful day, not some other day, when he was not engaged in such activity. 

 

But that doesn't appear to be the case.  I recently asked for the hospital video used in the Sean Phillips' trial.  I did that in order to affirm that the Seedless-brand shoes acquired by the police at Sean's house with a warrant were the same shoes wore by him at the hospital just before he went over to Ariel's Birch Lake apartment a mere two and a half blocks away.  What I saw made me doubt the official line that Sean was wearing the Seedless shoes pictured here.  

 

 

Here's the sequence of Sean's interactions at the hospital that day

1)  At 11:42 AM Sean's car is seen coming up Atkinson Drive towards the back of the hospital (Camera 5, seen here towards the end, with sunroof)

 

2)  At 11:43 AM Sean parks and walks toward the hospital  (Camera 4, seen here).

 

3)  At 11:44 AM:  Sean walks through the reception area, where we get our first good look at his shoes (Camera 12, seen here).

 

4)  At 12:04 PM:  Sean walks back outside, once again giving us a look at his shoes (Camera 12, seen here)

 

5)  At 12:05 PM:  Sean walks to car and drives off (Camera 4, the video was not released, one must believe he went out hospital's Lawndale exit to get to the Birch Lake Apartments)

 

6)  At 1:07 PM:  Sean (and others?) travel north just like he did at 11:42 PM, apparently en route to Ariel's apartment.  (Camera 5, seen here)

 

7)  At 1:08 PM:  Sean would have drove past camera 4's lens on his way out of the hospital (video not released). 

 

I am assuming sequence phases 5 and 7 were not out of the ordinary, just showing Sean exiting the back lot.  Seeing him walk back toward his car, may have allowed us to see the bottom color of his shoes, but his shuffling gait likely wouldn't have allowed us the opportunity.  Phases three and four gives us the best look at his footwear, here is a still from the ins and outs:

 

 

They're dark shoes, like the others, they have black laces, but It looks as if he has a series of maybe green stripes on the shoes sides.  A light colored marking on the insoles, some coloration underneath his low-rise white socks.  They look in better condition than the ones he supposedly wore out in the wilderness and got dirty, and a bit unlike them at first glance.  Let's look at them closer:

 

 

 

Frankly, if one would say at another trial, "if the gloves don't fit, you must acquit"  should it be said that "if the shoes don't match, another plan the prosecution will hatch".  The  shoes Sean Phillips wore to the hospital, and presumably to Baby Kate's funeral, were not the shoes that we are sending 80 botanists out on a wild goosegrass chase for. 

Unless you believe that he brought a pair of extra shoes in that day, changed them before he went into the wilderness, changed out of them when he got back, and then snuck them past his mother into the immaculate Phillips house before he brought the fireworks in.  Hope springs eternal.  But one must wonder, why did Detective Kenney try to pass these shoes off as one and the same pair of shoes, when they most obviously are not?  Was this just incompetence at detective work, or some lame plan by the prosecution to show that Sean must have trudged around in marshlands getting rid of a body? 

[april]

Def NOT the same shoe, are they really that incompetent?

[XLFD]

I will give them a convenient excuse:  LPD had control of the shoe until it was sent to MSU's Professor Crum for forensics; Kenney (who used to be on LPD) presented the hospital footage in court, he based his opinion that they were the same going by hearsay description of the shoe or a glance at photos of the shoes.  Plausible deniability of intentional error on the prosecution's part is achieved. 

 

[Lisa O'Brien]

why wouldn't his own lawyer mention they had the wrong shoes?

[XLFD]

Great question, but consider that Sean needed to inform her of that first.  I think Atty. Smedley would have brought that to light to help her client by showing the others made an honest mistake if she knew about it. 

Further deduction would have to hinge on Sean's motives for not pointing this out to her, or told her and decided why he did not want her to pursue that line.  There actually are a diverse number of reasons one can go in this, due in large part to us not knowing what were/are his underlying motives.