First the notes.   The events surrounding the night of February 26th are complex only insofar as investigative evidence has not yet fully been made public.   The various leaks, accounts, media stories, witness statements etc. have been reviewed and essentially led up to the collection of information in Update #9.
Since March 12th, when investigators determined that no credible evidence existed to arrest or prosecute George Zimmerman, nor did anything surface to dispute his account of the nights events leading up to the shooting of Trayvon Martin, nothing has changed.
Everything beyond that official police investigation position has been speculation, media spin and manufactured media-evidence designed to stir public opinion and emotion.

Again we repeat, “media evidence” sold by lawyers and Media Image Consultants does not need to be real, it only needs the appearance of reality.   Much like planting seeds of doubt it is created to appeal to, and stir, emotion;  to overwhelm logical thought, to sway public opinion and ultimately force politically minded public officials to engage in activity they would otherwise stay away from.
None of it will ever reach inside the walls of the judiciary because it is either manufactured or irrelevant.   Period.
However, the false and specifically constructed media evidence does have consequences.  Real people have been brutally attacked and real people have been physically assaulted because of this “manufactured” media evidence created for public consumption.

Make no mistake in doubting the motivation or intention of those who have specifically advanced lies and manipulations into the public psyche.   This self-serving, naive, and intentionally false, often hate filled, rhetoric is dangerous.    Which is why we have chosen to call those liars and deceptive self-serving manipulators to task.   We have deconstructed their lies and falsehoods, and we will continue to expose them, shine the light upon them, and not let them slide back into the shadows.
Now for the Treeper audio tip:
A Treeper trained in the professional art of transcription read a concern expressed by another engaged and curious mind, justice 099, then forwarded their consideration and analysis to us on the tip line (e-mail).   We cannot chase down or research every tip, and need to prioritize (but keep them all coming please).   However, this one is supportive of an earlier Treeper inquiry and we thought it worth sharing for discussion:  From Sandusky

I ran across this site about a week ago and have been visiting it every day since, hardly able to believe what I’ve been reading here, except that I HAVE to believe it b/c y’all document this stuff so thoroughly. 

I gotta say that you treepers are a very remarkable bunch.  Mighty fine investigative work going on here, mighty fine indeed.  And plenty of humor too.  Love it!

OK, so…assuming the moderators approve me and also assuming I can navigate to the right place to post this, I want to talk for a moment about the “ghost voice” that justice099 heard (Update #17) on GZ’s call reporting TM as a suspicious character – b/c I ‘m here to tell you that I heard something even more startling than “justice” did. 

In fact, when I finally realized what I was hearing, I ripped off my headset and shot my chair away from the computer as if I thought the owner of that ghostly voice was going to come through the Internet and make good its threat. 

If you’re the impatient type, go ahead and jump to the bottom of this post to find out what I heard, but I hope the rest of you will bear with me for a minute or two while I explain why I believe I’m likely to be hearing right.

Obviously, the more you hear of a person’s voice, the better able you are to discern what they’re saying even when the audio is crappy, so (like the rest of you) I’m at a disadvantage b/c I have no other audio of Trayvon Martin. 

On The Other Hand, I do have a slight advantage over most (if not all) of you in this regard because I happen to be a medical transcriptionist, which means that I spend hours listening to less-than-perfect audio and gleaning crucial information from it.

And when I say less-than-perfect, well, you know how bad most doctors’ handwriting is, right?  Well, believe me, their dictation style can be even worse! 

There are docs who dictate while eating crunchy food, while driving (I used to have one who dictated while driving a convertible with the top down), while using the toilet (I kid you not), while having lunch in the hospital cafeteria, and once I even had one who was dictating on a plane as his flight took off.  There are doctors who shove the microphone so far down their throats that it must be tickling their tonsils, and others who whisper their dictation from the other side of the room. 

Through all this chaos, it’s my job to hear whether they’re saying alfentanil or fentanyl, clonidine or Klonopin, dysphasia or dysphagia (try saying those 2 out loud – very few people can enunciate the difference even when they’re trying to), a typical chest pain or atypical chest pain, etc etc. 

My ears have been tuned the hard way, and if I sound a little crazy at times, believe me, I’ve earned it.

You, however, are definitely not crazy, justice099, because I hear the “ghost voice” too, and I thank you so much for posting this because although I had read what I believe was the official transcript of the call, I hadn’t got around to listening to the audio. 

It was illuminating, to say the least. The “ghost voice” starts around 1:37, and just after GZ says “Okay” (and before he says “These assholes, they always get away,”) I hear the voice say “Fu-u-uck.”  (Is it possible that GZ is sighing this under his breath?  Yes…except that the voice is heard again, overlapping with his, so I’m inclined to rule out that possibility.)

Just after GZ says that they get away, I hear the voice snarling, “Bastard! Faggot!” There was so much hate in that voice that I gotta admit it made the hair on the back of my neck prickle.  (I’m not very conversant with modern thugspeak so I don’t know how likely they are to call someone a faggot, and perhaps an argument could be made for “Cracker!” instead, but “Faggot!” is what I hear.)

Where I had a problem was hearing “motherf*cker” next.  No disrespect fo justice099 because the *ucker was definitely there, and the first part of the word certainly began with an M sound and ended with an R sound, but those first 2 syllables were pronounced with an odd distinctness and drawn out just a shade too long – almost as if the speaker was saying, “Read my lips.  MUH…ther..FUKK…er.” 

And that first syllable…hang on, it sounds more like MUD than MUTH – no, wait, that’s not just a short U sound, there’s an R sound in there too.  Not MUTH, not MUD, but MURD.  Not MUH…ther..FUKK…er but MURD…er..FUKK..er.  Murder-*ucker?  Holy crap, MURDER???  (That’s the spot where I ricocheted away from the desk.) 

And the gap between the first 2 syllables and the last 2…Is he saying “Murdering *ucker”?  No, that makes no sense b/c there’s been no violence yet.  But there’s definitely an almost soundless fraction of a second there, just 1 syllable that I can’t quite hear. 

Or can I?  Yes, I think I got it now.  He’s saying, “…murder you, sucker!” (or “f*cker” – very hard to distinguish between S and F sounds).  So the fractional pause before “murder” probably means that the complete phrase is “Gonna MUR-der you, SUCKer!” (or perhaps “Imma MUR-der you, SUCKer!”)

Go listen to the audio:

(headphones – even cheap ones – will be a huge help), starting around 1:37, and see if you hear it now.  If you hear what I hear from that ghostly, vicious whisper, maybe your blood will run as cold as mine did.

Of course, if that really is TM’s voice, it does seem odd, on the face of it, that GZ doesn’t say anything about it to the dispatcher, but I can think of 3 possible explanations.  (1) GZ didn’t actually hear the words that TM was mouthing at him from outside the vehicle (I think we can safely assume that the truck’s windows would have been rolled up as soon as he saw TM approaching, if not before) so he didn’t feel there was anything specific to report, but the mike was so sensitive that it recorded most of the unheard words, or (2) the voice was so clear to GZ inside the vehicle that he assumed the dispatcher could hear it too, so there was no need to say anything further, or (3) he didn’t want to inflame the situation by describing what was happening in case TM was able to overhear him “snitching” to the cops.

Well, for a first post, this was certainly a loquacious one, wasn’t it?  But I’ll be interested to know what anyone else can hear. 

As has been suggested, this may not be TM’s voice at all.  Maybe it’s a “bleed” from another call.  Or maybe if I heard a cleaned-up and enhanced audio, I’d hear something different.  As justice099 has said and/or implied, we need more confirmation on this before we can consider it a fact. 

But it’s entirely possible that in this audio, St. Trayvon of Skittles has shown himself to be an edgy, hair-trigger, foul-mouthed gangsta, cursing and snarling threats at a guy who was doing nothing more threatening than sitting in his vehicle and talking on his cell phone.  And if that’s true, it’s gonna make it kind of hard to argue that GZ was the one looking for trouble that night.

Feedback, anyone?

Sandusky