Sylvia Sellers was driving north on Peachtree Industrial Boulevard on the night of the murder when she observed a dark car sitting alone in the driveway of Gwinnco Muffler. In a recorded interview, she stated that she got off work at 9:00 PM every night and was always on her way home by 9:05 or 9:10 PM. She would have normally pass the muffler shop about 9:30 or 9:35

By coincidence, Ms. Sellers worked at Ciba Vision, the same place of employment as the victim, Emogene Thompson, and the victim’s friend and neighbor Virginia Chance but on a different shift. Ms. Sellers was obviously estimating her normal driving time and not the driving time that night. All of these drivers coming north on PIB would have experienced the same driving conditions. Stormy with very heavy wind and rain.

Virginia Chance, one of the victim’s friends and neighbors and one of the ”hearsay” witnesses, had tried to wait out the storm that night before driving to work. At 10:18 PM she decided that the storm was not going to stop, and she began her trip to work. It took Ms. Chance 40 minutes to drive the distance to Ciba Optical, and she just made her start time of 11:00 PM. Although she stopped for a few minutes to get some gas, that would have been offset by the much better weather conditions going south on PIB at that time than for those driving north between 9:00 and 10:00 PM.

The storms heavy rain, said to be falling in sheets that night, and driving at speed which seems to multiply that effect, seems to have increased the driving time for all these drivers coming north by about 40 to 50 percent. Ms. Sellers would then have passed the muffler shop between 9:45 and 9:50 PM.