This was a chase, folks: White Jacket Man in pursuit of Tan Jacket Man.
And another thing Mrs. Dean told family members may contain a further crucial piece of information to help us piece together what really happened.
Mr. Myers was told that Mrs. Dean "stepped out of the store and peeped around the corner" after the man she had just seen. The man "had flung the
jacket onto a tire rack of the Texaco station next door". Mrs. Dean "picked it up and came back into the store. Later when the police arrived, my mother turned the jacket over to them telling them she had found it on the tire rack".
Now Mr. Myers, who gives full credence to the earlier part of Mrs. Dean's story, is having none of this: Mrs. Dean simply couldn't have found the jacket, as the jacket was found under a car in the parking lot.
The jacket? Well, one of them anyway. But there is a possibility that Mr. Myers appears not to have considered: the jacket found by Mrs. Dean was not the same jacket as the jacket found under a car.
What's missing from the account is any mention of what
color the jacket Mrs. Dean said she found was.
I believe that Tan Jacket Man may have discarded his jacket at the tire rack, and that it was
his jacket that was found and brought into the Dean's Dairy Way store by Mrs. Dean. He had quietly slipped out of the furniture store just as White Jacket Man was entering it, and---------knowing he'd been pursued to this area----------needed to lose the jacket asap.
Recall this detail from the earlier part of Mrs. Dean's account, as quoted by Mr. Myers: "
As he broke into a run, he was tugging at his jacket, as if to take it off." It would make sense that he did in fact take it off just moments after this, and discarded it on the spot.
I submit that Mr. Myers' dual policy of endorsing Mrs. Dean as a terrifically credible and important witness on one phase of her story, whilst dismissing her in effect as a deceptive fantasist on the other, is incoherent--------------and that my analysis of her WHOLE story is a lot more cogent.