Honestly, it still doesn’t make sense to me. Paramedics wouldn’t need to pull him out with his head and arms dangling even more-so to check to see if he was alive. And at that point, what good does it do to photograph the scene–after it’s been altered. If they are going to check for vitals, they don’t need to pull him out like that and if they are going to pull him out, pull him out!
When Pelissetti the first responding officer arrived at the scene, he described in ‘This is the Zodiac Speaking’ seeing Paul Stine slumped over the passenger seat, his head in the floor well. We don’t need to take his word for it, look at the pooling of blood in the well and blood does not lie. Therefore the position you see Paul Stine in the photographs is after somebody moved him, whether it was police or medics, he didn’t jump into that position by himself. He most certainly wasn’t left like this by Zodiac. It is a duty of paramedics to check for vitals, either by light into the eyes or a pulse. This cannot be done adequately with him in the floor well of the passenger side. The blood in the well is the most significant pooling in the crime scene, indicating Pelissetti was correct, unless you are assuming he is making it up, therefore the photographs you see of Stine are different to Pelissetti’s recollection, in which he makes no reference to Paul Stine hanging out the door.
The first job of any medical staff who arrive would be to check for signs of life, not say to photographers take your pictures first so the scene remains untouched. If they had clambered into the foot well the scene may have been compromised even more. Once the medics were sure he had expired, by your reasoning there is now no point in taking any photographs as he’s been moved. The scene still has to be documented whether the body has been moved or not, you don’t just say ‘Oh crikey the body is not in the same position, there’s no point now we’ll all go home…damn medics, how dare they do their job and compromise our photographs’. Unlike the LHR murders where apparently they are drawing chalk outlines around a still alive David Faraday, unless the outline was a recreated afterthought.
You guys saying "Lb is the zodiac", I was thinking "who is LB?" It took me a minute on that one.
