Witness protection hasn't been mentioned.
The timeline is pretty basic. There isn't much of one. (I'll try and put something together with actual links later.)
--The last reported sighting of JDR was the afternoon of Wednesday, May 10, by his roommate at their shared apartment in Palm Desert (KMIR)
--The last reported sighting of AM was between 8 & 8:45 the night of Wednesday, May 10, by her sister, at her sister's home in Coachella (numerous reports)
[AM had some form of phone contact with her mother the night of Wed. May 10, sometime after 8. Whether this was a direct voice conversation, or text, or both, is not clear. The photo that we see of JDR and AM at a restaurant was texted to her mother at that time. But the photo itself was taken on an unknown, earlier date. According to a televised interview with AM's mother, AM informed her mother that she was with JDR at the time of the contact. (KMIR)]
---Friday, May 12, 2017, the GMC SUV that AM drove was found parked on I-10, west of Oak Parkway, just inside the border of the city of Beaumont.
It's really unclear if LE has JDR's phone records; but they have reported that AM never pinged outside the EAST Coachella Valley the night of May 10 (ECValley is actually South of Coachella, the city, and includes Brawley) Some reports, though, state that she never pinged outside of the Indio / Palm Desert area, so who knows?
What has been reported pretty consistently by all sources, is that neither JDR or AM's phones were used after midnight on May 10.
Those are the bare bones of this case. There is other information, but it remains very fuzzy.
