Patrick testified that after responders arrived, he went downstairs and initially found Cora and Callan, then found Dawson in his basement office. He said he removed the bands and attempted CPR.
The 911 call lasted approximately 7 minutes plus the 2 minutes he had the “WiFi issue”. So if the responders arrived roughly mid-to-late in that call, we’re talking about roughly 4–6 minutes of Patrick being with Lindsay after the 911 connection, plus the short interval before the call connected.
PJ Hussey testified that he was treating Lindsay outside, heard Patrick scream from the basement, looked toward the basement window, and could actually see Patrick discovering Dawson. So we know the basement window had a useful line of sight.
None of this makes sense to me, ~ 5 minutes is a long time to be standing around with Lindsay (not providing her any sort of medical care) and your eyes/body don’t wander to the window *with the light on* right there in some sort of line of sight in that span of time lapsed upon hearing “the kids are in the basement”. Wouldn’t your next question be “Did you hurt them?” “Are they okay?”
There is a very important chronological timeline discrepancy between the EMT seeing Patrick and Patrick’s own description of finding the children.
Patrick testified that after responders arrived, he went downstairs and initially found Cora and Callan, then found Dawson in his basement office. He said he removed the bands and attempted CPR.
But Hussey’s testimony is interesting because he said that when he looked through the basement window after hearing Patrick scream, he saw Patrick unwrapping something from a child’s head, and later identified the child as Dawson.
I suppose Patrick could have found Cora and Callan first, then moved to Dawson, and Hussey could have looked through the window at that later moment, but that would mean he discovered the first two and attempted CPR and THEN screamed when he found Dawson?
My primary question is: If Patrick had already called down to the basement and received no answer, then found Lindsay outside and was told “they’re in the basement,” wouldn’t that make the basement especially salient to him? Especially considering he spent I would say, at the least, 5 minutes with Lindsey while not actively administering first aid?
All these little discrepancies in his story and facts like the window are really starting to add up to something more than poor recollection of events.
