How do we know?
Well she says that she called him back twice. So even if she were mistaken, she's going through the procedure to create a new connection to his phone. Shirley, that would require her to expect to hear the ringing and the usual business of initiating a phone call. I don't find that theory about the clicks to be persuasive.
If the 7:04 call was not her, then the 7:12 and the other call which doesn't appear but would have come later would also be her.
Or, perhaps she's not being a good witness
PROSECUTOR: Like a mail area, like a covered area, because it was raining? So did he tell you he was already inside, like, the gated place?
GIRLFRIEND: Yeah. He ran. That’s when the phone hung up.
PROSECUTOR: I’m sorry?
GIRLFRIEND: The phone hung up and I called him back again.
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PROSECUTOR: He, Trayvon, started walking?
GIRLFRIEND: He gonna start walking. And then the phone hung up and then I called him back again. And then, I said, ‘What are you doing?’ He said he’s walking, and he said this man is still following him, behind the car. He put his hoodie on.
PROSECUTOR: He, Trayvon, put his hoodie on?
GIRLFRIEND: Yeah, ’cause, he said, it was still a little bit dripping water so he put his hoodie on. So I said, ’What’s going on?’ He said, this man is still watching from a car. So he about to run from the back. I told him, go to his dad’s house. Run to his dad’s house.
This only works if I buy the theory that she doesn't know very much about what phone call to TM's phone is like (and/or is unfamiliar with phones in general).
From what I have seen of today's youth, I would need some pretty strong evidence of that to be convinced that she's not familiar with phones.
Additionally, she purportedly has had many phone conversation with TM. So, she had plenty of opportunity to become familiar with what it's like talking to TM on his phone. Plenty of opportunity to learn to distinguish between other incoming calls and not being able to talk to TM anymore.
I just can't get on board with the "Dee Dee can't tell the difference between a click and being disconnected" theory.
Do phones even click anymore when they're disconnected? My cel phone doesn't and my work phone doesn't.
Isn't that a vestige of the good old days?
I know why you have to have some theory about that though.
Because w/o it, we have three calls between DD and TM w/ GZ in the picture. Examining the phone records we see that it would have spanned more than a dozen minutes or so w/ GZ around.
That certainly does not fit w/ GZ's story or the NEN call and possibly not w/ TM's phone records.
But, just like it's possible that DD's not being good witness, there's the possibility that GZ's not being a good witness either, (or instead). His account of things may have left one or two things out.
Your theory that DD only actually connected to TM's phone one single time doesn't fit with her version of events.
If she's wrong about how many times she connected, I can't help but question the value of her entire testimony.
It seems that adding her to the equation didn't do much to reduce the number of variables and get us closer to a solution. The opposite rather.
Instead of clarifying, it muddied.
I am not sure that her account is more reliable than the SCSO event report.