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June 8th-
7: 00-11: 00 pm-- Senior Night party at Ben’s Restaurant and Bar
10: 00- 10: 20 pm-- Rocket leaves and returns to Ben’s in order to drop of Dana.
11: 15 pm-- party breaks up at Ben’s
11: 20 pm-- Rocket arrives at the LaSalle Park with buddies and heavy liquor One bottle of vodka is drank. (Three miles between park and bar)
11: 45 pm-- Knowalls leave the home of their niece

11:50 pm- Grimm arrives at police station, soon after she is hearing about park rangers breaking up a party in LaSalle Park.

11: 55 pm-- Fran and Kerry Knowall fix a flat tire on Colvin Street extention

June 9th –
12: 00 am- Grimm’s shift begins, Grimm arrives at 1500 Colvin street extension to break up a separate party,

12:05 am- Rocket leaves LaSalle park (see 11: 50, there is a discrepancy)

12: 10 am- Grimm leaves 1500 Colvin Street extension northbound (Rocket would then have been going north too)

12: 10 am -- Fran Knowall sees two cars on the road. One s/he says was speeding and recalled it to be a yellow Pontiac Sunbird, like his neighbor Chris.

Somewhere before 12: 15 am, Strongarm is injured while jogging and knocked unconscious

12: 15 am – Grimm finds one very-hit-by-a-car Mr. Strongarm (driving at 35mph, 10 less than necessary), Mother Rocket claims she heard son actually arrive (but this is hearsay and a bit argumentative)

12: 20 am-- Rocket arrives home, ambulance and more police arrive where Strongarm was hit

12: 30 am-- Knowalls can drive once more and continue down Colvin street extension, shortly after they run into Lindsey Grimm and describe the speeding car, Fran says s/he saw it “less than half an hour ago”

2:00 am- Grimm obtains Yellow “T” Sunbird registrations in New York that lead to Rocket’s arrest
8: 00 am- Grimm’s shift ends, she continues to work

9: 00 am-- Police obtain a warrant to search the Rocket home

9: 30 am- Grimm arrives at Rocket home

9: 40 am- Rocket speaks with Grimm and describes route- Stahl rd (35mph)(four miles), right on to Colvin Street extension, turns into Paradise Acres subdivision. Colvin Street (45mph) and distance in Paradise Acres (30 mph) equals eight miles. A total of 12 miles.



Roman, black = case summary
Courier, black, Bold = Grimm’s affidavit
Arial,black, italics=Rocket’s Affidavit




My Findings

Ø Rocket may have had 15 more minutes to leave LaSalle Park than he described. This gives him an average speed of 12/30 or 24 miles per hour. While this is unlikely as s/he says himself that s/he was moving fast, this casts doubt on his overall speed. The average of the two speeds is 36 mph, which is not unreasonably fast in a dire situation on a foggy road.
Ø Grimm too is a possible suspect in hitting Strongarm, his/her trip to 1500 Colvin road extension puts her in the right time and place. She found the lack of state charges against Rocket “unfortunate” and worked overtime in order to work on this case after 8: 00.
Ø The Knowalls see two cars going in Rocky’s direction, one may have been Grimm’s vehicle.
Ø These points are however not concrete. If one were to guess some or any of the times were off by a minute, one can alter how incriminating these times sound regarding speeds on the road and gaps in the timeline where actions are not explained.