Here's a whole lotta what I think. JMO
Something happened Sunday night from which, in TS's scary mind, there was no turning back.
Sunday night she was up all night, plotting and covering up.
Monday, as soon as the girls were out of the house, she began the execution of Phase 2.
I can't get a handle on what occurred between 10am and 2pm and in what order but I'm convinced she choose the truck, assumed less trackability than her leased vehicle, left her phone at home to avoid tracking, and attempted to alibi herself while actually committing the crime for which she's charged AND disposing of evidence, the latter IMO along her loop up, around and in Monument/Palmer Lake.
And all this before getting back to Lorson Ranch before the girls arrived. More time for cleaning. She then dispatches the girls on a bogus errand, to give herself MORE time for cleaning. And by "cleaning", I mean "tampering with evidence and pre-interfering with an investigation".
By 6:30, possibly ahead of her hoped scheduled, she is pressed to report him missing. She may have hoped for a whole extra day....
Then what?
We know that TS has an apparent penchant for car rentals. I'm going to throw this out there -- IMO -- and storage lockers.
It might make sense to have one in Colorado for her things from SC, being that most (CO) houses in most new (CO) developments have little storage in house and even less in garages.
If this is the case, she could EASILY have accessed a storage unit on the 27th. Surely caught on surveillance but LE wouldn't have that information until much later.
And later that could well be a place where a LE dog could hit on a scent. Where a body HAD BEEN.
But by then TS could have moved him. Rental car on the 28th.
If she drove much of the night on the 28th, she could have arrived 400 miles away... waited until 8am and rented a new storage unit, and been back on the road and back to Colorado to return it, assuming she returned it where she got it.
I doubt AS ever knew she'd rented a car that day....
By her own admission, people were saying she'd disappeared.... the car rental option could've put her off the grid overnight and for most of the day on the 28th....
I don't think she could've done this without the internets....
JMO I think she may have commandeered her daughter's phone. Never imagining THAT trail would ever come to light.
I speculate she rented the car early, prior to AS's arrival, retrieved Gannon's body, returned to the airport, picked AS up and JMO I think they left together IN HER CAR. I think she returned later to reclaim the rental car...
Meanwhile ... on the 31st she gives her backwards interview, prior to bolting, with her moving truck in view. Containing items I SPECULATE she got out of storage....
She's busy creating drama.
The neighbor's video changes everything. Because now LE know who he left with and when.... which gives them a new, HUGE starting point.... and quickly they get warrants, giving them access to the house and access to GPS, pings, etc.
No wonder LE called this complicated from the start -- musical vehicles... moving targets, moving trucks....
FWITW I think TS had NO TROUBLE gaslighting her people. She'd made a career of it. This latest bit about being suicidal and hospitalized and having a fake pregnancy??? Seriously that's like the drama queen trifecta, individually each is a master manipulation, all three is a desperate throw at the wall to get SOMETHING to stick. SHE is a fuster cluck.
I believe she's spent HER LIFE manipulating people emotionally and I'm certain she worked this to new heights (depths) -- whatever it takes, playing a martyr, threatening suicide, demanding loyalty, gaslighting, all of it. She's used to telling people which brand of reality they are allowed to perceive....
So.... it wouldn't surprise me in the least if she spun a tale to take her private side trip south, en route to SC....
But her (dim)wits are no match for LE actual wits. They've got her number. AND her digital trail.
I believe LE knew where Gannon had been.... and I believe LE knew where TS went.... they just couldn't isolate where, along that journey, she reposited our sweet boy...
I wish we could take every earthly comfort from her.
I would lose all faith in humanity because of her, if not for Gannon's mother, who restores it -- with her strength born of despair, her grace born of grief, her generosity born of loss. I see where Gannon got his greatness!
Thank you, LH, for sharing your beautiful baby with us. He's touched us deeply.
In time we will happily forget about the stepthing -- but Gannon, Gannon we'll hold onto.
JMO
The other was to relocate Gannon's body without being tracked. We've all figured out that the rental cars she used had tracking info through the rental companies, and was how LE was able to map out her routes in CO and then across the country to SC. So my guess is, LS sent one of the people that was with her at the backward interview (2 "Aunts" & a young man) driving back to SC in the red rental car (trackable) while she drove the moving truck (untrackable) making a detour stop in FL before heading to SC. I'm sure GPS is an upcharge option in Uhaul type moving trucks, but the many times I've rented one it never had GPS as a standard feature. Correct me if I'm wrong on this. That's why LE was not able to track her route and find Gannon's body in FL....they were tracking & searching along the route of the rental car which lead them to SC.
