Was it 4 PM? I only heard that she left for work in the afternoon. Regardless, she obviously didn't know about this trip to Brawley which makes this supposed special trip peculiar. Brawley Probably didn't happen. Maybe when JR ordered the pizza he was with someone, who was from Brawley and maybe that someone used JR's phone to lure AM out. Sorry if I sound like a broken record.
6 PM Pizza. Pre-8 PM text for pickup. 8:45 - 9ish pickup, perhaps even later depending on how far AM still had to drive, although it seems like it was soon after 9 considering AM (or someone) was texting her mother back with the pic. If JR did go with someone to Brawley, he could make it but would literally be turning right back around to make the time frame but to do so makes no sense.
I looked back and I'm not sure where I got the 4pm time. Usually I don't remember something this specific, if I didn't see it--but can't find the reference.
The roommate did say afternoon, so this could be anywhere from 1 - 4, I guess. Then there is the pizza order at 6. And the reason I take that pizza order seriously is that it seems that JDR's mother references it in her timeline of him, in the first interview with KMIR--when she says that the only way JDR could have gone to Brawley and come back, was if he flew. It seemed by that statement that she believed he did order the pizza. But this is an inference made by me. She never clarifies this.
On the McStay family disappearance there was the vehicle captured on a neighbor's surveillance, that was thought to be the McStay Trooper. Only after an arrest is made, over 3 years later do we find out that the vehicle captured leaving could NOT have been the Trooper. This one piece of erroneous information had on-line sleuths looking in the wrong direction for years.
What I've noticed in a lot of these missing person's cases is that for whatever reason, trying to pin down a fact and verify it, is almost a fool's errand.
I have a feeling Brawley, may be the McStay Trooper sighting of this case.
Brawley just doesn't fit in.
However, if JDR is unemployed at this time. Watching his pennies very carefully, then he really may have stayed home all afternoon. Ordered a pizza and then went out for some reason. When I've been broke, usually going out meant going to a friend's place. So I wonder if he did land at someone's home. Maybe a new friend, met recently, not on anyone's radar...
But again, JDR's activities, before meeting up with Audrey, may turn out to be irrelevant to the disappearance. There are just so many unknowns.
