It was one of the first things I noticed:
Police seized a folding knife and three guns from the scene, including a Colt .38 handgun, a Colt AR-15 rifle, and a shotgun. Two of the guns were found on the alleged gunman and one was recovered in a vehicle, according to police. The restaurant suffered at least $1,000 worth of damage to a door, door lock, computer tower, and barrier wall.
Washington Post
Now if they DO get investigated they can just say, "Aww, too bad, the computer was damaged by the shooter."
They needed a plausible reason to get rid of the evidence. I bet they now have a shiny new, squeaky clean computer at Comet Ping Pong.
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Baluga ago
No, the quickest way is to run software to delete the drive before Edgar even shows up. If Comet were doing stuff and Edgar was part of it, they could easily have done this themself. I bet that computer just had accounting info on it.
lilwagon ago
Accounting info can be very dangerous. Also... assume they're guilty. If they are, they might avoid guilty behavior. Let's say the case breaks, and the computer gets seized. Welllll heeeeyyyy there... why'd you go and BleachBit the HD? Instead... your in-house kook-op can just go in there, and destroy any evidence for you. It TOTALLY fits with the actions of a guilty person.
Baluga ago
You have other angles. Assume they're guilty. Buy a new hard drive and throw the old one in the pizza dumpster. There's no investigation, nobody will ever see it. A lot easier than hoping a gunman will make it to the back (not get tackled by a visiting hero) and accurately shoot a hard drive.
lilwagon ago
agreed to an extent. If I'm a cop, and I see that you changed your HDD for no apparent reason, that's suspicious. I guess you could just say it broke... but think about the underlings at CPP. They likely aren't in on anything (assuming there is nefarious activity), so you sort of need to convince them too...
Just a random thought. Any attempt to modify/remove that hard drive, even if for a legit reason, after pizzagate hit the news might raise suspicion. Of course... the elaborate situation that just happened might be messy too...
I just want to know why that Scotland Yard e-fit looks EXACTLY like the podesta bros... plus the whole handkerchief with a pizza related map... can someone PLEASE make that sound normal for me?
Baluga ago
How would anybody know about a hard drive being replaced? That's routine across the country.
Scot Yard: Somebody posted a theory that the e-fit was actually created years later as a fake in order to pursue investigating the Podestas. But no, these aren't normal and can't be normalized. Interesting factoid about the handkerchief: The realtor wrote that she found a black and white handkerchief. Ms. Sandler forwarded and said "pizza-related map". This was on a tour of vacation rental properties on Martha's vineyard. I suspect "map" means the design or color pattern on the handkerchief, a useful code for sex parties.