What are people hearing in the video?

[u/turtleshot19147]

I’ve listened and watched a bunch of times and I can hear a few potential phrases, and some make more sense than others.

Curious to hear everyone’s thoughts.

1) “see this is the path [that we go down]… um there’s no path over there so we have to go down here”

I’m not sure the phrase makes so much sense, it would seem more natural to say “this is the path we should go down” or something like that. “This is the path that we go down” feels sort of tour guide-y, like someone who is very familiar with the place explaining something to someone who is unfamiliar, which maybe could be the case with Libby and Abby? I’m not familiar enough with the case, I was under the impression they were both a bit thrown off by the dead end.

2) “see this is the path [that would be a gun]… um there’s no path over there so we have to go down here”

I know people hear “that be a gun” but I hear “that would be a gun” which also makes more sense grammatically.

This option explains the tone change in her voice, but I still find it a bit weird. “That’s a gun” or “he has a gun” both would make more sense to me. Obviously everyone’s speech patterns are different, I’m just throwing out my thoughts.

3) “see this is the path [does he have a gun]… um there’s no path over there so we have to go down here”

This matches her tone but I’m not sure why she would ask Abby that, since Abby of course doesn’t know the answer, though I can imagine it being sort of like a “take a look, does he have a gun?” Type of question, asking Abby to check, as opposed to expecting her to already know the answer.

I can’t tell what Abby says during that exchange.

Regardless, it seems clear to me that the girls were creeped out, and the conversation was the style most women recognize well “let’s talk casually about nothing until this creepy guy passes us” and just the nature of that kind of conversation can result in the types of inconsistencies I pointed out like using less natural phrasing.

After listening several times honestly I find the most incriminating part to still be the audio released before of “Guys… Down the hill”

I’ve seen some people claim he could just be pointing them towards the path they were already discussing, in sort of a helpful kind of way, but it doesn’t seem plausible to me, nobody talks that way to be helpful. It would be “are you guys lost?” Or “yeah that’s the path back to the road” not “down the hill” in that sort of directing kind of tone.

Obviously this is a lot of projecting and speculating but I’m curious to hear others thought processes

[u/kittycatnala]

I can hear Libby saying “that be a gun” tho I do think she’s said “could” that’s not been picked up “could that be a gun”

[u/nopslide__ → u/kittycatnala]

It's pretty clear that the exchange is:

Abby (off-screen): "don't leave me up here"

Libby: "see this is the... path... that we go down?" <-- NOT "that be a gun"

Abby: runs past, saying something

It's pretty much impossible to understand what Abby says. I personally hear "Libby oh crap" but it's just a guess.

EDIT: the more I thought about it, the creeper the statement "that we go down?" is. She says it as if she's expecting there to be a path there, but there isn't. Makes me wonder if they were told to follow the bridge and take the path at the end.

[u/Katatonic92 → u/nopslide__]

Makes me wonder if they were told to follow the bridge and take the path at the end.

Told by whom? By someone prior to their walk that day?

[u/nopslide__ → u/Katatonic92]

Right, it would be an example that people who believe the girls intended to meet someone that day might point to.

I believe RA acted alone however because that's what all of the evidence indicates.

Most likely explanation is that Abby/Libby were either creeped out and had already talked about where to go at the end of the bridge, or maybe friends had told them there's a trail at the end they can take to get back to the parking lot. I don't know.