So….I didn’t see a lot of today…but did see LVD at Walgreens buying those flip flops or sandals or whatever they were and saw her putting hers on before leaving the store & saw the pic when they got back to the house of her & Tylee wearing them. Who goes to buy flip flops immediately after her estranged husband is killed in her home? Who does that?
And why?
Did Tylee go out to the car to be with JJ so quickly that she didn’t stop to get shoes? Remember Tylee was in bed when the commotion started. But LVD was up and dressed and expecting CV so was she really barefoot too?
Or did LVD have CV’s blood on her shoes when she fled the house and notice it in route to the BK and ditch her shoes somewhere along the way to the 2nd Walgreens?
What was wrong with the first Walgreens? Did LVD ditch her bloody shoes in their trash and then decide to go to another to purchase the flip flops?
Our local Walgreens have trash cans near the store entrances. I would like to see that first store’s surveillance footage too. But the reality is that LE botched this and if she had bloody shoes not only could she have discarded them anywhere along the route she took that morning but they could have just as well been in the car because they never searched it.
There are few reasons to beleive the parts of the narrative that came from Lori, Alex or Tylee.
We don't know who was in bed, who introduced a bat, when exactly gun shots were fired, etc.
Tylee spent some time with Lori getting told what to say, plus she was behind that thin wall listening to her mother talk to the police before her turn.
As was the point of today's testimony, it was impossible that Lori heard a shot, then got Burger King, dropped off JJ, stopped at a closed Walgreens, then an open Walgreens, then returned home all in 12 minutes.
AFAIK, and I haven't gone through minute by minute, all we know is when Charles arrived and when Lori, JJ and Tylee left, and when Alex called 911. Clearly, Charles entered the home for some reason. He also clearly knew "they are up to something," since he texted that to Adam.
JJ would have expected to go into his Dad's car to get breakfast with him. Maybe he scooted right out.
Charles could have left his phone in the car, for all we know. That was what Gibb said she was told. There really doesn't seem to have been much of a fight at all, except in that Charles was a bit bruised on the knees. I think it is possible that Lori got Tylee to slip out the garage with her and into Charles' car, which could have had his keys and phone right there. She could have told Tylee that Alex needs to talk to Charles, and made up a similar story to JJ. Picked up food and put JJ back on schedule, then told Tylee that there was a fight, we have to tell LE that Charles was going to hurt us, too, etc., and banged out the lie that had to be told.
That would allow Lori to participate in the tale-telling, which she had success with in the past with LE, and give Alex a more heroic story, defending more than just himself.
Tylee.
It beaks my heart to think about the days she survived, let alone the day she did not.
I would be curious to know what shoes were left behind in the house. If, for instance, there were shoes by the most used door that Tylee and Lori abandoned, they could have gone bearfooted outside to not waste time putting on shoes, to sneak out the garage, or to make it seem less like a plot to gab the car and drive off- stepping out without shoes would hint to Charles that they will be right back.
If there seem to be missing shoes, I certainly would want to know a great deal more about that, too. The first strip mall would be a natural place to dump trash. Or the drive through. When my kids were car seat ages, I'd use a drive through just to use the trash can for the accumulation of toddler-trash.
(Edited to acknowledge
@indicolite22 belief that Lori had dark colored shoes on camera while out the morning of Charles murder, and it may be she changed them to new flop-flops.)
I want to know: where was Bailey.
And what did JJ say at school, if anything? Was he upset, or was the AM pretty normal for him?
Tylee was obviously very, very upset at her police interview. And she never spoke with any concern for ANYONE getting hurt, not with a bat, not with words, not with a gun. No concern her uncle might go to jail. No concern expressed that her step father was dead. No concern about the financial implications of his death- he was her co-signer and insurer of her precious jeep! She could still anfford the payments, but would they take back the loan now? Would Mom say she has to support the family with her $$$ annd her mom take the jeep? Tylee had incredible self control to never mention her personal safety, her family's personal safety, legal implications of the day, or material implications since Charles was the main bread-winner.
All she talked about was the same narrative her mother talked about. Tylee obviously did not feel like she could discuss the topics that were far more likely the cause of her degree of emotion. Tylee's emotion and superficial, scripted narrative make me very confident the narrative was not true.
MOO