If CL was in clinicals that night that would be easily proven by LE so I have to go under the assumption she was there unless its proven otherwise.
We have a eyewitness that saw a truck there. We also have FH rumor there was a silver car there . At one point all 3 vehicles were there. Neither of the accused perps own a truck and there have been no arrests so far of anyone that does. Perhaps the neighbor saw this on Friday when there probably was LE and investigators running in and out? We know for sure AL was there because he confessed to kidnapping BC.
Going with just what we know for sure, AL by all accounts was at the vacant house alone. (CL was at school. )
When was BC bound with duct tape? She met him approximately 5-5:30. There were neighbors close to this vacant house and this is a prime time for people to be returning home from work which is a risky time of getting caught. Would he have taken the time to bind her or use a weapon to force her to leave with him? Im assuming he would have taped her mouth also to keep her from screaming. If he just forced her in the car he would have had a hard time driving and controlling her too. If her mouth was taped he ran the risk of other drivers seeing a woman duct taped and calling the cops. So he probably would have had to bind her there and throw her in the back seat lying down or put her in the trunk. The only thing I can figure out if she was unbound at that time he made her get in the trunk which was the fastest way to get out of there. He had her phone on him and most likely was the one who texted her RE friend around 7. So maybe BC wasnt being held anywhere and was in the trunk.Then CL comes home and finds out what he did. At this point, BC was bound with duct tape. I think a struggling BC would have been a challenge for AL to handle by himself other than forcing her in the car with a weapon at the vacant house by himself. Al wasnt that much bigger than BC. If she is fighting him back at all I don't see him doing all this then. I can see her doing like Holly Bobo though and walking away with him.
Some thought provoking ideas here concernedmother... My tendency is to think that BC was
not walking out of that house in any "free" state, meaning I think she was bound inside the house - and (being an empty house with no threat of any owners stopping back for last minute something they forgot, etc,) AL would have known he had the time luxury of disabling her momentarily or long enough for his next needs - to transport her. This explains the "wide open door" of the house when CC arrives.
Then there were reports of a car BACKED UP TO THE GARAGE. To me that implies pretty clear forethought to prepare for a swift and stealth 'delivery' of the 'body' to the trunk. Carrying her out under the cover of the garage and dropping her right into the trunk. The trunk makes the most sense as an easier drop point for a body than a back seat and less conspicuous than the bed of a pickup for the travel to the next place. All of the above could have been out of view of neighbors. (in house, in garage) And... all that would have been best accomplished with two people as opposed to AL alone, not easy alone, but doable I guess.
I had said earlier that the "accident" of her death may have been suffocation if she'd been bound at the mouth (which is pretty certain) and then in a fast duct tape job he somehow also covered her nose and then shoved her in the trunk for... who knows how long.
Now we have CL. Who like you, I believe was at clinicals for the same reasons. However, here is a leap ...not knowing her.
What if, midstream in all this, she were to discover AL was smack in the middle of a crime gone wrong, one that she was just close enough for her to be potentially implicated -- and AL had convinced her it was not too late to get out of it undetected, if she would help him now. I go there since we see AL has this semi-Svengali charm effect on certain women and seemed able to convince them to act against better reason, common sense, and even their own interests. I mean, just living with this guy alone would be going against most better judgement and common sense, let alone living with your child ...and marrying him etc etc.
So the question being, would CL be the type who, once she discovers her husband to be in the middle of a criminal blunder, to (A) call the police and report him. (B) run from the whole scenario to a friend and extricate herself but NOT call and report him or (C) believe his plan to get out of it stands a chance of working and assist him at that stage thinking they/he could still get out of it and not get caught.
Your theory took me to that place...CLs decision she might take at the moment of discovery her husband had just committed a crime and it was going south ...and him pleading with her to help him get out of it. What course would she be likely to take at a moment like that? All very interesting speculation!
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