Supposedly, BD doesn't have a computer at her home. I know for sure that she couldn't have downloaded the child *advertiser censored* (or any *advertiser censored*) from the computers at the library. So, unless she collected those pictures from a computer at a friend's house or was given the memory stick by someone, I don't think those images came from Billie. It seems a lot more likely that SA got them by downloading them from his mother's computer or got them from some of HIS friends. On Nancy Grace tonight, they said in Texas a person can get 20 years in prison for possession of child *advertiser censored*. If BD found that memory stick in her drawer, it seems she would ask Shawn what it was and where it came from (and what was on it). If SA was hiding it from Billie, he wouldn't hide it in her drawer! I think they are in big trouble now. I sure hope SA didn't sell or trade Hailey to be used for child *advertiser censored* or in child sex trafficking. One never knows what goes on behind closed doors at someone else's house.
"What-If?" scenario...
What if it was Shawn's drive?
What if Shawn HAD hidden it?
What if Billie stumbled onto it while cleaning, putting away clothes or throwing his stuff out on the lawn during a fight?
What if Billie thought "*advertiser censored*" but not "deviant *advertiser censored*"?
What if Billie then hid it in HER drawer until she could find a way to look at it before confronting Shawn?
What if she had not yet done so when Hailey disappeared?
What if Shawn looked for it, intending to dispose of it, and it was not in his hiding place?
What if the police came through and found it in Billie's drawer?
Shawn would not have known where it was, but probably would not have asked Billie, as she did not even know he HAD that drive, or so he thought. He probably assumed that if he could not find it, LE would not find it.
a. IF he realized they DID have it, and made some BS excuse about what was on it to Billie, that may be what influenced her to give him the boot.
b. He may never even have seen that police had it. Do they have you sign a receipt of some sort for seized property? Even if they did, Shawn may either not have realized the "memory stick" listed was his Attache flash drive, or he never read what he was signing at all... Since it was "Billie's house", it might never have been presented to HIM at all. Do they also show you the items?
If Shawn knew that they had it the day they took it, he would have tried to do
something, just as he had his mom try to get her computer back from LE when he found out they had that.