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From: "Klemm - Pamela S." <psklemm@umd5.umd.edu>
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 06:57:25 -0500 (EST)
Fwd Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 19:16:57 -0500
Subject: Of Linda's Jeans, Time & Tide


Correct me if I am wrong here or delusional but one of the
things that has always bothered me about this case is the photos
of Linda running on the beach.  As I reread the story she runs
down to the beach to get away from Dan with her jeans and blouse
on under the night gown set he had her put on. At this point
(page 127) she should still be dry.   Dan comes up behind her and
he catches her making her fall to the sand.  He holds her and
rocks her, kissing her and then smears sand on her face.  He then
drags her on her stomach across the beach.  He removes her
jeans (page 128) and throws them down the beach 10 feet
away from the water.  He begins kissing
her again and drags her to the water imersing her head repeatedly.
She eventually breaks free and wades onto the beach and collapses
on the wet sand.  Dan sits down behind her and holds her again.
Richard appears on the scene on page 129 and rescues Linda and her
jeans and returns the pair to the beach house where Linda is
eventually taken back home.

On page 132 we find out that Dan had taken five color pictures of
Linda running toward the beach after her escape and obviosuly
before he takes off after her.  Richard sends these photos to
Budd with his letter.

One page 141 Budd talks about taking Linda back out on Long Island
to try to determine where she had been.  His theory is that
because you cannot see Fire Island in the photograph then it
must have been further east than that, possibly Quoque, Hampton
Bays, or the Hamptons.

Here are my problems:

1)  In the second picture of Linda running on the beach, we see
quite a bit of sand with typical ripples indicating that it is
underwater at high tide. This sand is dry as evidenced by the
mounds.  As we go toward the ocean there is wetter sand and the
impressions in the sand confirm this.  As there is so much sand
exposed, it appears to be at or near low tide.  We know that
since Linda was abducted after 11:00 AM and returned
by 2:30PM that we have a time period of 3 and 1/2 hours to play
with. Assuming that it took an hour to get to this point
(the trip, the dressing of Linda, the breakdown of Dan) it
should have been between 12:00-1:30 PM when Linda
hit the beach to escape and if so this photo is all wrong for
the area Budd was searching.  According to the New York Times
on October 15th, high tide was at

	Shinnock Inlet  12:35AM         12:59PM
	Fire Island     12:46AM         1:10PM
	Montauk Point   2:26AM          2:30PM

This takes care of the whole area from Fire Is. east.
The Hamptons and Quoque would have been under water right up
to the high water mark.  Low tides would have been at
approximately:

	Shinnock Inlet	6:35AM		6:59PM
	Fire Island	6:46AM		7:10PM
	Montauk Point	8:26 AM		8:30PM

This picture, if shot on October 15, 1991, was shot later
in the afternoon as the tide was still going out.

2)  There should have been minimal to no shadows between
the hours of 12:00-1:30.  Both photos show shadows longer
than would be expected for this time period.  The
direction of the shadows also appear to be wrong since
the sun should have been close to overhead.  They are to
the left in both pictures and if she is on the ocean side
of the Island, she should be facing south...That would make
it late in the afternoon when the photos were shot.

3)  She certainly appears to me to be jeanless in both
photos.  Jeans, even if they are pulled up, tend to fall down
as one runs. This gown was supposed to have been sheer and
something she wouldn't wear because of her children.  If it
was that sheer (we are dealing with white remember) we should
be seeing her jeans through the gown. It's only one layer of
SHEER material, the robe is flying in the breeze.
Where are her jeans?  Maybe in the color photos the jeans
are evident, but in the picture on top the gown is pressed
against her thighs and there's no seam lines, pocket lines,
nothing.

4)  The five photos were in color but our copies in the book
are in black and white and it's hard to see but the
sky does appear to be overcast which would be correct.
However, the waves should have been 3-6 feet on the
ocean side of Long Island (again this is from the New
York Times).  They are not nearly that high in these photos.

5)  Is it possible to have been abducted after 11:00 AM,
driven indirectly out to the Hamptons or Quogue (at least
50 miles one way assuming they took the expressway-this
according to Rand McNally's Long Island map),
done all that they did, and have Linda back in her
apartment by 2:30 PM calling Budd?

Maybe I am making mountains out of mole hills and I am truly
open to any ideas, but I have a hard time with these photos.
And if the photos are not authenic then one has to wonder
about the rest of the evidence and lack thereof.

Pam