The timing and mystery of Jolissa's disappearance doesn't make me think of street gang involvement. That time of night, even gangsters are asleep - there's a reason that LE no-knock raids typically happen around 5:00am. And it doesn't send a clear message about turf or disrespect or unpaid debt if you disappear a person but no one knows who's responsible. At that point in early August, twilight begins around 5:30am, so if you ARE a gang member who is willing to commit a capital crime and who is now in need of a good place to hide evidence including a vehicle, you've lost all the benefit of doing this under the cover of darkness. This isn't to say it's impossible, but a lot of things have to go right for such a series of criminal acts to go down without leaving a shred of evidence to be found three weeks later.
Welp, that's my thinking at this stage. And I'm happy to admit I've been wrong before; the Cary Stayner murders always pop into my head whenever I start saying "this seems highly improbable" because of course that chain of events was the very height of implausibility, and yet it all really happened. In this case, I've been hoping Jolissa and her car were down an embankment or in dense brush (or both), hidden from view, and someone was going to spot her and rescue her. Still hoping, but time isn't on our side.
