Gitana,
This is a really confusing case to try to explain. Several big twist and turns. I will do my best to give a Cliff Notes Version.
Original timeline, given in news article, from JH-the Mom, was that 'everyone' left at 7 am, for work and school, except for AJ. So last seen time was 7 am at home, on March 2nd.
Also, there was a 'strange' text sent to Mom, at 5:30 am, saying " i am not ready to come home yet" but mom did not know for sure if it was AJ.
Mom called in missing report on the 3rd at 9;30 pm.
OKAY. that all seemed solid. And a few asked basic questioned on the BringAJHome FB, set up by the family. Respectful, simple things like, "did she have a car, was it missing, was her father leave at same time, that morning...?" Mom left a curt and even kind of passive/aggressive response, imo. She said it was not anyones business, no one needs to know any of that, and all that anyone needed to do was send out and share the MISSING posters, 'thank you very much.'
The missing posters had Moms cell #, Dad's Cell # and NPD # for any tips. Also, mom got VERY upset when her ex husband began putting up missing posters and offering 25k reward, and put the NPD #. She asked people to go pull them all down because he was interfering with the investigation.
OKAY. That response kind of made people dig a bit deeper. And eventually a few of the questions were answered. It was said that AJ's truck was left in the driveway but she was not home when family members arrived back at the house in the afternoon.
ALRIGHT. Now it began to get shady. A few sleuthers found out that 'dad'--Wesley Hadsell--had a long criminal history. And he had only been married to JH since 2005, 2 months after he was released from prison for the kidnapping/rape of his ex wife, and for a bank robbery that happened while he was on the run with her. And somehow, MAYBY YOU CAN EXPLAIN HOW it could happen, but somehow this felon with a long history, was able to ADOPT AJ when she was 15.
Now by this time, Wes had become the sole family spokesman. He answered the questions on the FB, did the media interviews, and organized the searches. he even was credited with the initial 'clues' and finds.
However, there was a clumsy, hamhanded, couple of days where the timeline was 'clarified' and re-clarified. And after a few awkward attempts, it was explained that actually, 7 am was NOT the last sighting.
Now we were told that Wes met her at lunchtime at a gas station to give her some cash. But no need to worry because 2 neighbors, apparently saw her after that time, driving her red truck home.
You REALLY need to see his interview explaining that new timeline, in order to understand the reason for much of our skepticism. It is hard to explain but he is very 'leaky' and awkward when he tries to explain things.
OK, so now we have a newly revised timeline, placing Wes in a 35 minute 'meeting' in an unnamed gas station, where they did not speak much but stared at each other. <<<HIS WORDS.
And trust me Gitana, from there the entire thing went NUTSO. I think, with my suspicious Scorpio mind, that Wes planted much of the evidence and tried to frame a neighborhood teen.
But some believe his stories about why he broke into the teens home --because he thought he needed to look for evidence--and he found a jacket that he says is AJ's so he left it there, and got some other kids to call it in as a tip to LE. But these kids now say they are afraid of him and he threatened them? So I don't know how to explain what happened. Wes found her cut up credit cards but it was hinky because her name was not cut off of it, and it was in the street. And the first piece was 'found' by the kid whose house he later broke into, so It is very convoluted.
Bottom line for me--3 weeks later, after all the cell records, surveillance footage and witness testimony--the cops spent 15 hrs interrogating Wes, and accusing him of killing AJ. And they told him that there is no video of him at the gas station with her, but that his cell pings at his hotel, not where he says he was,].
OH, and the family did not want to admit that Wes was living in a hotel and separated from JH at this time. A WS member figured that out here by the interview Wes gave, where he tired to dance around it.
Are you confused yet?
at the beginning of the thread there's Elizabella's timeline and links. I think it might need some updated I haven't checked it out in a while but it has some of the basics in there.
