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| FROM UMPD 2007 SECURITY REPORT |
As far as I know, this is the closest thing online to an independently verifiable statement from UMass itself about the hours security personnel might have worked in 2004.
Certainly, it's possible that the security hours were decreased two or three years after 2004 - possible, but seems doubtful.
Just so there's no confusion... It should be noted that "weekdays" always refers to five consecutive days, almost always Monday through Friday. Weekends, on the other hand, always refers, except in the case of holidays, to two consecutive days, almost always Saturday and Sunday.
If, for some odd reason, Thursday was, for the purpose of this security report, deemed a weekend night, then Saturday night would have been a week night, which seems pretty unlikely.
I think Friday and Saturday nights, in the ordinary sense, were the nights to which UMPD referred. These are obviously the nights of heaviest traffic and partying/drinking, hence the need for later security desk hours.
Here is the current (2016) schedule of security desk hours directly from UMPD's own website:
So... perhaps the hours of the security staff were different two or three years before the 2007 security report was written, but they are obviously the same today, in 2016, as they were in 2007.
she talked to her boyfriend between 12:07 AM and 12:14 AM.
Petrit Vasi, by the way, was found lying unconscious in Triangle Street at 12:20 AM. Although Triangle Street is not heavily traveled at that hour, it's not lightly traveled then either.
Vasi would not have lain in the street very long unnoticed. Triangle Street is probably the most popular route between Main/College Streets/Belchertown Road and UMass. It's also the straightest shot between UMass and the ever-popular Bruno's Pizza, at the intersection of Triangle and Main Streets.
Here's a video of what it's like to drive up Triangle Street from Main Street to the location of the Vasi hit.
All this raises some interesting questions.
Why, for example, has there been constant insistence for thirteen years that Maura could not possibly have left her desk at Melville, driven to Triangle and Mattoon, and returned to Melville without having been detected? What's to detect if she got out of work at midnight?
Why has there been - from various quarters, I might add - this years-long insistence that Maura could not possibly have hit Vasi despite the ready availability of these documents?
Why has no one ever referenced these documents, even if only to claim that the documents are incorrect? They're not exactly hard to find.
Why has there been, for thirteen years, no effort to substantiate the actual hours of Maura's shift, especially in light of easily found documents that indicate the strong possibility that she clocked out at midnight?
Where has the highly touted "hive-mind" been all this time? Where have all the so-called citizen detectives been hiding? Isn't this an issue they should have addressed long ago? Why aren't the "citizen detectives" on the case very interested in details like this?
Sure, it's entirely possible Maura did not hit Vasi. But why keep insisting it’s 99.99 percent impossible when it’s obviously very possible?
Another thing. While Maura’s father, Fred, has vigorously sought records from NH authorities, he has, to my knowledge, been completely uninterested in any records from MA.
Wouldn’t learning something, anything, about the Vasi hit be, potentially, a huge help in figuring out what happened to Maura?
The 12:07 phone call also raises another question. Regardless of whether or not Maura worked past midnight, her boyfriend has never said something like, "Maura could not have hit Vasi because I was on the phone with her..." Wouldn't this be something worth pointing out?
As far as I know, he’s never said a word about this phone call; this despite the fact that the phone bill has been around for more than a dozen years and seems to have been provided to Renner relatively recently. Somebody must have noticed this - a long time ago, I would think.
In fact, I don't think the boyfriend has ever said anything at all about Maura's schedule. But here we have a phone record, supplied by James Renner, that indicates Maura and her boyfriend were talking just after she likely left work, which would be a pretty normal time to talk with a significant other.
I gotta ask. If Maura hit Vasi, was she talking on the phone with her boyfriend when it happened? If so, what does that mean? Seems like it could mean a lot.
There has been a general assumption that Maura either was, or should ordinarily have been, on duty in Melville until at least 2:00 AM, despite fairly strong indications that her hours on Thursday night might have ended at midnight.
Regardless of what her scheduled hours actually were, it seems that virtually no one was interested - for years - in nailing down Maura's actual work hours; which, by itself, seems to say a lot, too.
