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In reply to the discussion: Why do an internet search about infants dying in hot cars because you are so afraid of it happening? [View all]TorchTheWitch
(11,065 posts)always all grouped together on the same site. Depends on the size of the business and the availability and size of the site. I can totally see that the daycare was in a different building nearby but on a different site while the building he worked in was elsewhere.
The time line though pretty much nails him as killing his son intentionally. The Chick-fil-a is a stone's throw from where he worked and less than a mile's drive. He took the child into the Chick-fil-a with him and buckled him back into the car when they left. He went straight to work from there. It's not reasonable that in the space of only a few scant minutes from buckling his son back into the car and parking at his office that he could have already have forgotten the child even if the child was completely silent during that time, which is doubtful being a toddler.
He parked his car on the highest level of the parking garage when there was plenty of spaces down lower and closer, and the top level had no roof and was ope to the sun and other elements.
Even if the child was not dead by the time he took his lunch break and went back to the car to put something in it, it's not reasonable that the stench inside the car of either a dead child or a toddler who most certainly would have defecated or urinated by that time normally would have been not even noticeable but overpowering.
There is no way that when he got back into his car at the end of his work day that the child most certainly dead by that time would have been giving off extraordinary odors that trapped in the hot car all day would have been nearly explosive to anyone that opened the car door. It's simply not possible that he got into his car unknowing that his dead child was in there and drove to the mall where he suddenly "remembered" his child. Just opening the car door to get in at the end of his work day would release a flood of foul odor. The police mentioned that when they arrived at the scene at the mall though the child's body was outside of the car on the ground and at least one door still open that the odor inside the car was overpowering.
Anyone that researches deaths by being trapped in a hot car because they worry for their child already knows that such a death is atrocious and if the reason for researching it is because of being so worried about it happening means that it would be ON YOUR MIND and PREVENTING you from doing it. There's no question that his internet research on animals or children dying in a hot car had to do with premeditation and wanting to know how long he should leave the child in the car to MAKE SURE he was dead before anything occurred that would have prevented that such as someone else noticing the child in the car alone and doing something about it before the child was dead or he himself needing to use the car before he was dead.
Personally, I believe that his going to the car during his lunch break to put something in it was for the sole purpose of checking to see if his kid was dead yet, and given the temperatures that day and with the car being in direct sunlight with the windows closed he would have been, and there would have been extreme odor inside the car that he couldn't help but notice even if for some odd reason he still couldn't see the child still there in his car seat.