We're going to take a look at the pros and cons of the police's initial boat ramp theory, and see if it can logically work out. This is also the theory her parents seemed to have accepted the most, considering their media appearances. I crunched some numbers, and checked out the weather. It can work, in the purest scientific sense, but by the end of this article it will seem a lot less likely.
The following are stats from the time frame and according to needed science. Time Frame Stats
Current: 7mph or 3 meters per second.
Average sink time: 30 seconds to 2 minutes
Possible sink time travel: 90 meters to 360 meters.
Car window: Down
Seat belt: Off.
The river was flowing 7 miles per hour, or 3 meters per second. The average car sinks in 20 seconds to 2 minutes. A car can travel about 90 meters to 360 meters in this amount of time on 3 meter per second currents. Ms Anderson had 30 seconds to 40 seconds to escape her car according to pure science. However, for the record, pure science is not how life works, ever.
The following is an image of Platte. There are two yellow pins. The first is where the the car allegedly entered at the boat ramp and the second is where the car was retrieved from the water. The yellow line is the full possible 2 minute travel distance of about 360-380 meters. We see that a car moving without resistance could travel quite a distance. This is of course, scientifically speaking only.
Lets take a look at a raft in the water.
The first thing to note is how shallow the water is. There is a small boat with young people in it, just off the ramp. Their paddles are still reaching bottom a couple meters meters out. Time Stamp: 1:57 https://youtu.be/jG3NrhfhXhc?t=117
The second boat is notable. It's at 2:12. This boat can be seen until 2:47 where the screen transitions. In this amount of time the boat travels about 10-12 meters, verifiable by Google Earth ruler. Time Stamp: 2:12 https://youtu.be/jG3NrhfhXhc?t=131
This is the minimum sink time of a car. 30 seconds. It did not travel 140 meters. 10 meters max. In the full sink time, of 2 minutes, the boat would have traveled only 40 meters. It would have taken the boat 8 minutes to get to the retrieval point.
A car with window down, seat belt off? Either her car was moving break neck speeds with no resistance, or it has the longest float time of any vehicle, without filling with water.
Now that this is cleared, lets be honest. What are the chances Toni's car broke records, and nestled up against a black SUV? Or is it more likely that she ended up in someone's dump site, be that a law enforcement officer, or not?
I've decided to create a second blog about the Toni Anderson case, because I simply can't believe the amount of injustice perpetrated by the North Kansas City Police Department. It's important the world hear about their absolute lack of integrity, and how this poor girl's case was treated. There's too much ignorance to ignore.
Toni Anderson went missing on January 15th, 2017. Her car was recovered 140 meters east of Platte Park Boat Landing in the Missouri River. Team Watters Sonar, reached out to the Anderson family, and ended up locating her car, along with a black SUV in The Missouri River. Police say the SUV is unrelated, but we'll never know.
The Injustice The following is an outline of all the injustices we could find. It seems that each media installment came with a lie. We'll cover them below.
Initial Stop
Police had initially denied Toni Anderson was pulled over, but have admitted
she was stopped by a North Kansas City officer that night.
In the following video the examiner mentions the officer pulling up behind Ms Anderson during the police stop over her “improper lane change.” She is issued a warning.
The most important statement in the video, at the following link, is that she pulls
away from the gas station alone.
“Kansas City police say the GPS
tracking device installed in Toni's car has not helped in the search.
Officers say the device tracks the car's speed, not its location. ”
- KWCH12
Interesting, so it's a Global Positioning System that doesn't know how to do it's job. Sure.
This lie from police is contradicted in the same Crime Watch Daily video. The officer states the GPS pinged its last ping at the gas station, where the officer watched Toni get gas. We catch them in another lie.
The North Kansas City Police officer is found to have been moving in an opposite direction in "unreleased surveillance video."
Call To Action
The Kansas City Police have been caught in lie after lie. The officer in question has been placed in the location of her last GPS transmission, and was seen following her up the road. She was never seen, or heard from, again. After so many lies no officer deserves to get off the hook on hearsay evidence alone. There is too much room for corruption.
Was he a rogue cop?
Did a corrupt group of cops get put in charge of this case?
Is the current chief of the precinct trustworthy?
Message the North Kansas City Police and demand they release body cam, dash cam, and all surveillance videos pertaining to the Toni Anderson case. Also ask that they re-investigate the officer in question.
Feel free to comment, and reply. Also sharing this would be a great help. Please spread it on your FaceBook, Twitter, or Google Plus. We seek true justice for Toni Anderson, even if it means the officer can be cleared and it was an accident. If not, we need criminal charges on all officers involved in a coverup.
First I have to say this sleuthing was inspired by John Lordan, who does some pretty good work when it comes to covering stories. He has a series known as BrainScratch. John covered Ms. Anderson's case in good detail, sparking my interest. Thank you John, for your amazing work. We may not always see eye to eye on theories, but I appreciate what he puts into his series.
I also came across a blog that implemented cops in this case, and thought the writer was being awful at times. He did a lot of conspiracy, with what seemed like no verifiable facts. He was put off from the shunning of the Anderson family, but I urgently want to say, as a conspiracy person myself, that sometimes, some of these people's hearts are in the right place. Please consider the following information, as a more, humane, and suitable source. This was not written without care for the case, and for justice.
Ms. Anderson, a 20 year old hostess at Chrome, had finished work in Kansas City, Missouri, Around 4am on January 15th. She was driving to meet friends, possibly a man, as sources say. During the short trip she was stopped by highway patrol, which seemed to be somewhat of a frequent occurrence for Ms Anderson.
Roxanne Townsend, one of her good friends received an SMS text, from her phone, at 4:42am.
“Omg just just pulled over again”
Oddly, Kansas City Police Department (KCPD) denied Ms. Anderson had been stopped by one of its officers.
Some speculate she had been kidnapped and murdered by police, or somebody impersonating an officer. Personally, I'm wondering if she wasn't murdered by a police officer myself.
Eventually a highway patrol officer came forward from North City Kansas Police, saying he had pulled over Ms. Anderson in a black 2014 Ford Focus, on the 9-Highway, after an "improper lane change."
Ms Anderson's text:
From there, one story states, she ended up at a boat launch at Platte Landing Park, on the Missouri River. Her mother thinks she was in a tizzy after being pulled over. This seems a bit of an over reaction for a simple stop with a warning, especially for someone who had been stopped before. Police think she somehow accidentally slid down the ramp. This seems harmless enough, and completely possible. Accidents happen, we all know this to be true, but was it an accident? The story seems much darker.
The image above shows how long the boat launch is. A car would roll down this very slowly. A quick thinker would be able to put their car in the reverse gear and floor it. Was the grip visible that night, was there ice? The car could have been going so slow when it hit the water that it could have hung on the lip of the bank.This is just speculation.
Not only is Platte not in the direction she told the officer she was
going, she was completely out of the way. Nowhere near where she should
have been to get to any known destination, according to currently
released information. There is no explanation given for Ms. Anderson
traveling down this side road. Why was she even there?
When the car was retrieved, it was not near the ramp. Rather, 140 meters down river. This can be verified with Google Earth, including the direction of flow, considering sea level.
The map above shows the boat launch to the left. The retrieval point to the east, south of the circular area to the north. The circular area is only marked as a reference. Many were confused about the retrieval area, but I was able to pinpoint the exact location through source referencing. Lets dig a little deeper, to show you I know what I'm talking about.
As you can tell, my reference can't be off by more than a few meters.
A black SUV was pulled out of the same location by police on the same day, before Ms. Anderson's car was located by a privately hired sonar team. There is total silence on the SUV. They have not said if a body was found in it, who it belonged to, or released any other media coverage on it. All they said was they believed it was unrelated. It's really hard to say if this is a dumping site for someone, but it's very odd. I'd also like to note that dumping and empty SUV near a crime scene is a very, very, clever way of confusing an investigation.
"Dennis Watters of Watters Sonar & Recovery said divers were looking in the area where they found Anderson's car because it was near where her phone last pinged. They had to bring professional divers out to the site because of how strong the current is. Watters also said Anderson's car was found upright underwater."
The car is badly damaged for being found upright. If the car was upright in the water, and entered from the boat launch, that means it likely drifted, and landed on its wheels. I'm not sure how the car could receive so much damage from such a light entrance. It had to be caused from retrieval, or during her trip into the water. Only one of these can be true, and someone should find out. A trip down the embankment, rather than the boat launch, can only result a few ways. She had an accident, and rolled down the embankment, she was ran off the road, her car was pushed in some way, or she drove off.
Her boyfriend has expressed skepticism of some kind.
"It's just too easy for someone to get rid of a car, it's 24/7 all access and there's no gate covering it," Sanchez said, describing a boat landing dock not far from where Anderson's car was found."
The video below gives circumstantial evidence that the officer did not point her towards a gas station, but followed her there, and was there when she pumped gas.
The surveillance video shows the police officer waiting there while she fills up. The officer didn't tell her she could go get gas, according to Crime Watch, the cop was THERE when the GPS was turned off.
"I know that when she started the car the GPS was no longer transmitting."
Someone needs to find out if he knows for a fact the GPS stopped working before, or after she came back.This is information they have such simple access to. I'm going to tell you right now, they know for a fact, and possibly to the millisecond, when that GPS shut off.
"GPS tracking: The device fits into the vehicle and captures the GPS location information apart from other vehicle information at regular intervals to a central server. Other vehicle information can include fuel amount, engine temperature, altitude, reverse geocoding, door open/close, tire pressure, cut off fuel, turn off ignition, turn on headlight, turn on taillight, battery status, GSM area code/cell code decoded, number of GPS satellites in view, glass open/close, fuel amount, emergency button status, cumulative idling, computed odometer, engine RPM, throttle position, GPRS status and a lot more. Capability of these devices actually decide the final capability of the whole tracking system; most vehicle tracking systems, in addition to providing the vehicle's location data, feature a wide range of communication ports that can be used to integrate other on board systems, allowing to check their status and control or automate their operation."
"Ford's global vice president of marketing and sales, Jim Farley, said that the No. 2 U.S. automaker knows "everyone who breaks the law, we know when you're doing it. We have GPS in your car, so we know what you're doing," according to the report. "By the way, we don't supply that data to anyone."
Note - how can they know if you're breaking the law? Unless he's over bragging the product, that sounds like audio and video included. Someone should find out.
Even Deeper
A glimpse into ready buyable GPS trackers. "Super Trackstick is designed to be concealed inside of the vehicle, allowing you to record the complete travel activities of your vehicle... anywhere... anytime. Automatically keep track of your vehicle including it's location, stops, length of stop, miles driven, speed, and more."
Ford has installed a sophisticated devices into Toni Anderson's car. Police are not being honest. I'm not sure if media would help cover up a crime or not. In this world, it really depends on who, and why. The police know everything, including times. They could match the times from the GPS, check the times with the ATM clock, and they know to the second when this GPS stopped. They could EASILY find out if it was while she was in the store or not. And more importantly, while he was watching her fill up.
If they are hiding something for the officer that pulled her over, someone should dig a little deeper. This family, if this case goes this empty, needs to open a law suit. They deserve the truth, the full truth, as does all that seek justice in this case. Toni Anderson deserves to have the truth brought to light.
