ALLEGED TIMELINE

According to the Charleston Police Department the cash register at the Citgo station was 1 hour and 15 minutes slow. The times in that timeline are put at the correct time if using the 1 hour and 15 minutes slow time.

Now, Christopher Fields initially said that he purchased beer only and when he saw a black male in the store by the beer cooler, and a different black male at the register, that black male exited out the left door. That left door gets locked at midnight so there is only one open. So, according to the statement, he was in the store prior to midnight. However, the police continued to try and put him in the store much later toward the time of the crime instead.

Glenda Fonseca initially stated she had a $20 bill and bought cigarettes and beer. Then her story continued to change saying she bought a pack of condoms. Trying to fit her ‘purchases’ into matching a receipt time that was purchased at a later time. The Charleston police tried to show that she was at the store much later and as a fake alibi indicating she talked with BJW the cashier.

Bertha J Wilson, victim, always rang up her register without hitting the total button. She used her calculations to give the correct amount of change. Therefore, amount received from the customer and the change given are always $0.00 And she always did many safe drops, which means the cash register was opened and the money was taken out and put into a secure slot in the top part of the safe. The top part of that safe no employee can get into.

The right side door was the only door allowed to be available to enter and exit the store after midnight. When the clerks went back into the storage room or to stock the coolers, they would lock the right door so no one could get in while they were away from the register. This also doesn’t allow anyone to purchase gas while the clerk Is away from the register.

The operating system is called a Gilbarco. The register has an ‘Approve’ button on it that the clerk would push when someone is at a pump and wants to get gas. The register sends an alarm to the clerk to ‘approve’ the pump so that it can start to pump gas for the customer. If someone is not near the register when a customer pulls up for gas, they cannot pump any gas until the clerk approves the pump. This system is set up to only pump gas while the clerk is in attendance at the register. This also avoids the chances of a drive-off without paying.

We will come back to this ‘Approve’ button later in this case, as it applies to many of the scenarios that happened that fateful night.

More to Come very soon……….

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