Anyone know the make/model of that van? It is pretty suspicious if you ask me. Who would go out of their way to take those signs down? Someone who knows
something. Looks like a tall white male in the video, possibly one of Donthe's basketball buddies in Pueblo.
Maybe one of his basketball teammates from his days at Central High School. Someone with the know-how should cross reference those names against owners of that make/model in the Pueblo area. I'm sure Donthe has gained much respect for his skills on the court and probably has some friends who got his back on anything whether they know if he did anything or not. Donthe could say he didn't do it and they'd believe him to the end, or, they might know he did it and they'd still never rat on their boy.
Personally, I believe there are dirty Pueblo cops that Donthe's mother, Sara Jennene Lucas, has connections with in some manner. I thought I read somewhere that she was a corrections officer in the Pueblo area. I need to dig that up again. I think that in the past, before Kelsie's disappearance, she either saw something, partook in something, or bribed Pueblo Police insiders. Or they owed her a favor. Something went down.
Here's a petition by Donthe's mother, Sara Jennene Lucas:
https://www.change.org/p/city-of-pu...itizens-be-held-to-the-same-legal-standards-2
Sounds like she was trying to complain about being mistreated as a civil servant (as a corrections officer I believe). Who knows, it could be something like she was "Sexually harassed" by an officer who was a good pal of the detectives. Totally hypothetical, but that's kind of what I mean by her having inside connections in some way. Made 3 years ago. Nice timing. Maybe she created it to get them to lean in her direction because she knows their dirty business.
Links of interest:
My take on the case:
I can picture it now. Donthe was a rising star in his basketball days. His mother probably had great visions of Donthe being the next Michael Jordan. Even Donthe himself sported the jersey number 23. A future of riches and fame lay before him, before her, and before their whole family. But what a better way to foul their hoop dreams by Donthe knocking up a girl and becoming a father in his vital basketball career make-or-break years, a girl who, in Donthe's mind, was just a piece of meat to unleash his primitive male impulses while off the court.
In my opinion, there's no question about it. Donthe lured young, desperate mother-to-be, Kelsie, with text messages that hinted at a proposal of marriage ("I have something I want to give you..."), flip-flopping from wanting nothing to do with the baby, to all-embracing and fatherly in intentions. By that moment he made up his mind (he and his mother). Since this girl was keen on having that baby she had to go. The last thing Donthe needed was baggage to weigh down his ball, pulling down his dreams of being a basketball celebrity. Of course, this was his simple mind at work here, thinking in extremes.
How I think they did it: First he lured her to Walmart. Kelsie was actually a bit skeptical I think, gullible, yet, skeptical. Walmart doesn't sound too bad in itself, so she drove down their, 2 hours, albeit reluctantly. But Walmart isn't a safe place to kill someone. Too many people. It was just a trust-gaining locale. She drove 2 hours she won't turn back now...He gained her trust, now he needed to lure her somewhere darker, somewhere he knows, somewhere private: His own street of course. His own dark, quiet street less than a mile from the Walmart. His mother's/grandmother's house was on that street. They all lived there. He slipped out that night. They met there in the dark and that's when he did it.
Whatever he did. I don't even want to know. I think he drove her car with her body inside to a remote location outside of Pueblo and buried her in the desert. That, or the body in the nearby lake was more than just a bad "tip" but a massive cover-up. The black car has dust all over it if you look in the Walmart security videos when it's being parked there the next day at noon (when his mom picks him up). Dust from the desert or from around the lake? You decide. When the police retrieved the car at the hospital a week later it was freshly cleaned. I'll bet that $400 went to the car detailing bill, not his phone bill.
Of course, by now Donthe probably realizes he's not
THAT good, and his B-Ball prime is over. He probably feels great cognitive dissonance for 1) not meeting his own expectations and 2) for taking two innocent lives to safeguard that dream and
still not becoming much of anybody. Except...someone with a first name that can be Googled by itself and yield hideous, disparaging results.
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