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Keep in mind that a key piece of evidence in the murder case in question is a single datapoint from his smart water-meter. "Why did you use 140 gallons of wate

• woogiewonka 10y ago
  Depressing.
• icebraining 10y ago
  How is it not relevant whether someone used a lot of water after the homeowner was dead?
  • M_Grey 10y ago
    According to police records, a city utility billing and collections manager told detectives that, on the night of Collins's death, 140 gallons of water were used at Bates's home between 1 and 3 a.m., an amount of water usage that exceeded all other periods there since October 2013. “In comparison, while all four [men] were together earlier that evening, they never used more than 10 gallons of water in an hour,” police reports said. “The amount of water used between 0100-0300 hours was consistent with spraying down the back patio area, which may have resulted in the wet concrete patterns observed on the morning of November 22nd.” The utility department's source? Each home in Bentonville was on a smart meter, police were told, to measure and record the exact consumption of electricity and water every hour. -Washington Post The homeowner wasn't the one who died.