Admittedly I haven't read the several pages of posts on this thread after this development, so apologies if this is already explained.
I noticed this: "She insists the three of them, DeDe, Terri and her, only got the phones because they needed AT&T service which allowed them to make calls out of the Horman home at Shelter Nook Road, which is in a remote area and doesnt service Verizon phones which is what they had."
They=all three of them? If so, why would TH have a phone provider that doesn't service her home addresss?
Ya know, every time I think that the rabbit hole we're all plunging down can't get any weirder, it...does. How many weird little cakes and funny-looking bottles are we supposed to ingest in this mess?
The White Queen may have been proud that sometimes she believed "six impossible things" before breakfast, but compared to this production, Alice's little trip in Wonderland is starting to look fairly mundane.