I wanted to post the "insight" I had a few weeks ago. It isn't really an insight, as it's been discussed before, but I could only find brief allusions to it. It's about the MM video and I was trying to locate more details about the alternate version. But there is no support for that claim.
Anyways, I am not really interested in MM, but in JR.
At 11:41pm JR, Linda D, and other friends leave the Continental and walk to Club Bayview. JR doesn't really want to go, and Linda actually says JR "couldn't stand the place." But JR does go along. Besides, the Conti was closing at midnight.
Once there, they realize they don't want to wait in line. A few of the girls are tired and they decide to go back to one of the girl's places to have a few more drinks. But JR doesn't want to go home. Linda says she could tell. When the group goes to hail a taxi, JR suddenly announces she's staying behind, and she walks away.
Her friends pull around in the taxi and ask her again to come with. JR declines, saying she'll call Linda the following day.
At 11:58pm security video shows JR standing outside the Conti by a light or traffic post. There seem to be quite a few people nearby, possibly exiting the Conti.
JR is looking towards Gujary St. She walks out into the road, possibly to cross the street or hail a taxi or because she thought her ride was pulling up. It is still 11:58pm, only 17 minutes since she originally left the pub with her friends.
The video cuts to 12:00am, and JR is standing by the post again. At 12:01am, MM approaches and JR gives a smile of recognition or possibly he just says something that makes her laugh. MM disappears from the video. At 12:02am, JR is alone by the post (group of people nearby). At 12:04am she looks at her watch. She is gone from view during the next shot, it is still 12:04am.
So...Why didn't Jane get a taxi with her friends? What did she think she was going to do? She had a destination in mind. The Conti was closing. She didn't like Club Bay View. Was there another club she was going to?
Linda said JR wasn't ready to go home. So what was she doing? I can see going to a pub alone (if there were any still open), but not so much a club.
Was JR meeting someone? Was it pre-planned? If so, why not mention it to her friends? Did she flirt with someone in the Conti and hope to run into him before he left for the evening?
It just doesn't make sense for JR to not go with her friend(s), but have no plan, other than standing by a post.