LAST EDITED ON Jul-12-03 AT 00:46 AM (EST)
 
>Sorry to interrupt all this sophisticated analysis,
I'm willing to analyze pizza anytime!

Now as for analyzing a line in order to determine if there is an interception device thats real tough. Alot of interception does not involve physical intrusion or actual connection to the line, mere proximity is enough. Now if you know where 'the pairs' are located and have access to the box a direct connection is going to give you great quality, but you would have to be able to detache your equipment fast and make tracks real fast. And at 5:52am 'making tracks real fast' might bring you to the attention of a car going the other way with its lights flashing. Installing something such as a 'harmonica bug' which shunts the 'off hook' signal into oblivion would have worked. That way the phone could be monitored as could all room conversation because the phone would have been electronically 'off hook' while it had been physically replaced properly in its cradle. But that means he would have had to have prior access to the home and that the bug would have still been there.

True, this does not take super sophistication electronically. Just as "script kiddies" exist for hacking the equivalent exists for telephone tappers. Anyone can wander into these 'spy shops' and 'telephone stores' that sell bugging books but its all a joke and no self respecting tapper would be caught dead using that equipment.

I really can't see anyone investing time, money and effort into tapping a telephone when all he was after was some thrills in the basement. Now if it had been a real kidnapping with a real ransom for a sensible amount of money, I might consider the phone being tapped.

As to the 'final moments of the tape' I admit that, as usual, those TV talking heads opened their yaps at the wrong time, but the tape on LKL clearly showed silence except for the 911 operator's keyboard with its clacking keys. No voices, No words, No Nuttin'.