10ofRods
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All her word salad aside, I wouldn’t put any stock into her calling her SUV a car. I call my van “my car” half the time.
It's not just that one word. It's a pattern of her using a noun that's vague (car is vague and generic) when she could be more specific (but that would tie her down further to a particular story).
I sure hope everyone would agree that TS's use of "my car" could mean any of the three vehicles attached to that Mandan home. Since she was claiming she was out of miles on "her car," then perhaps she took "the red truck" which, as you say, can be called a car by her. SUV's are classed as light trucks, but people misuse words all the time.
I am not going to build any theories around which car she took (although I think it's important) until we get a confirmation of which vehicle she took to the airport. It makes the most sense for her to take the truck so that Al cannot immediately see what's in it or not in it.
If she did take her own SUV, then she is lying about being worried about "too many miles," as she just put more on it by taking it out (when she didn't want to use the SUV, due to mileage, the day before). It's true that the airport is closer than the Petco, but then that begs of the question of why go to such a faraway Petco (or PIAS or bike shop?)
We know she used that trip to discard some evidence (a sock and a board, which flew out of the back of the truck) but was there a reason she didn't want AS to see that truck? I think so.
If she (stupidly) took her SUV to the airport and swapped cars, then perhaps it's because she wanted the least evidence in her own vehicle. But that would have made an already-suspicious AS have to use his own truck to do whatever he did that day, I do not believe that he accompanied TS in going "door to door" by driving a rental car slowly down the streets of their neighborhood..and then the next neighborhood. I do believe that if AS's truck was in the driveway, that he would have looked it over, although not as carefully as he would the following Saturday, when RD shows him the surveillance video.