I'm having problems posting so sorry if it's taking forever. I think I wasn't logged in. Haha. Anyway, a little bit of background on Jon before I post info on the case. We do not know Audrey.
Jon was the sweetest, funniest, cutest kid. Always smiling & always surrounded by a gaggle of friends. He has that charismatic "it" factor that is hard to define.
I'm going to try & frame this reply from a perspective of people who do not know this area, so u can help with the efforts to solve this case. We are in the Coachella valley & we have access to only 1 freeway which is the I-10. Anyone who has lived here for a time has a good working knowledge of all the freeway exits & Jon has lived here many years after moving here from Queens, New York as a boy (thus the pics of him wearing the New York ball caps that u have probably seen).
The Banning/Beaumont area is roughly 30 miles west heading toward the Los Angeles area. The place where the car was located is just past the main exits for the city of Beaumont (if u were heading west out of the valley here). Everyone knows those Beaumont exits & would know that if they wanted to get off of the freeway & go where all the fast food restaurants and so on are... they would exit previous to where the car was found, or they would continue on past that spot because there is another exit ahead where there are known fast food & gasoline etc. type of businesses. I say this because a resident of the Coachella valley would not stop purposely at the place where her car was found. Plus this is a somewhat remote area leading into Yucaipa with empty fields. (I'm going to interject my opinion here of what I think happened, but it has been well thought out as u can imagine, plus I'm drawing from known info on the case).
First of all, no one pulls over on the freeway unless they are having a mechanical issue or a road rage situation, or perhaps forced at gunpoint to do so. Yet her car was fueled & still operational. Plus... the Highway Patrol will tow a car fairly quickly if it's left parked on the freeway. So I have my doubts that the car was left there Wednesday night until it was discovered by Onstar on Friday morning. So, it is my opinion that the car was dumped there by the assailant/assailants perhaps on Thursday night leading into Friday morning.
Im hoping the Indio police will release the info on the forensics that they are gathering on the car. It hasn't happened yet, but if there was an unknown person or persons in that car, it will be very telling. If no one else was in the car then we have to surmise that they did stop there & get out which is highly unlikely unless forced to do so.
Im going to post this reply and start another one as I have more info & thoughts on this case. Please bear with me as I do have an appointment to go to soon & I may or may not be able to post it all today.