Okay, if we focus on JR, what exactly do we have?
Someone recently out of rehab. Extensive criminal record. Staying with TG for a few days. Brought to LE's attention by the 10 year old sibling. Picked up shortly after walking from walmart with new clothes. Picked up and released after giving TG as an alibi.
Was Bella dead or alive when she left her home? How did JR and her get to the site she was found at? Did he carry her if dead? Did he steal a car? Where did the car go if it was him that someone saw leaving on foot from that site? Why walk from Walmart? Did he leave the car at Walmart if the person who thought they saw him was wrong? Why did he give TG as an alibi when questioned as to his whereabouts? Why did he say he couldn't talk about the murder? (I find that very bizarre as I believe that was said when she was merely missing, right? Or even if not that would be a weird thing to say as if he was talking about other stuff or was at least willing.)
I think there is much more to this case that does not involve JR himself. And I'm really curious why RF was the only one not in jail over those other charges.
One thing to keep in mind: the current indictment document refers to only two locations: "in the vicinity of 2436 Lakeside" and coordinates pointing to a location just below 2323 Hummingbird Ln, which is across to the other side of the wash. They are either defining two endpoints of a contiguous crime scene across the wash or defining endpoints of travel that does not path across the wash. I tend to believe the shortest distance scenario: the crime scene lies between "in the vicinity of 2436 Lakeside" and the coordinates pointing to a location just below 2323 Hummingbird Ln., *across the wash*.
LE might have pursued the possibility JJR had access to / was permitted use of TG's car but what might negate that idea is that evening LE happened across JJR on-foot ...no car.
I do not find it impossible for a determined, in-relatively-good-shape individual of being capable of carrying Isabella (limp) firefighter-style across the wash. It is not possible to determine JJR's capability simply by viewing recent photos. And with JJR just coming out of rehab (unknown how many days had passed) would he have had the endurance, let alone strength? We do not know if JJR was high that evening, which a proper dose of the right something would have given him the required endurance.
A car-theft or hijacking charge against JJR has not been filed.
As for giving TG as an alibi, he may have assumed since they were good friends that she would either assume he was still at the house while Isabella wandered away from the house and support his claim or she would simply do him a solid since they had been family-like friends for years, never suspecting him.
JJR also provided one of his best friends as an alibi, and that best friend denied ever having seen him that evening. Using TG as an alibi could simply have been an act of desperation, without any real expectation.
I would like to hear more from TG's cousin. How long was JJR there with them? Did he leave while she was still there or was he still there when she and her daughter left?
Another point to ponder: If TG was involved, how could she hide that from her cousin and her daughter? The cousin's, her daughter's and Isabella's sister's testimony would be very interesting to hear in contrast to TG's and RF's, in a JJR trial.