I like how you're thinking. I too have questions about the Camelbak, maybe there are water fountains/sources at the trails she preferred to use? They have parking lots and seemed to be attached to larger state/national parks.
I know the gloves were wadded up in the closet floor (several of us believe that was Barry having used them for something to leave her DNA behind) I'm not remembering any wadded shorts, but stuff gets lost in my head.
I believe the "unchambered" round is the one that ended up on the bedroom floor.
On the note in the bike helmet, that is a common thing in the mountain biking world. Should you have a bad accident, EMTs/anybody who happens along can contact your family. I agree that SM probably left her bike on the RR if she wasn't going anywhere. I'm not clear on the model, some of those mountain bikes can get super pricey, if it was a higher end one she probably took it off to go grocery shopping, but being COVID nobody was going much of anywhere.
I do not believe that Suzanne planned on a ride on May 9 (or 10th for that matter), the girls were coming home the next day and she would want to get stuff around the house ready. They were an for-appearances household and MM1s bff was with them. She was doing Barry's business books during all of this, too.
I also think Barry sexually assaulted her before she died. He was just so obsessed with the idea of her being molested by her abductor.
Rsbm
Her bike shorts were on the floor of the closet, as I recall. They're the article he pointed to, for LE as a scent item.
I think Suzanne WOULD have gone on a bike ride on 5/9. Perhaps with Barry. Or the hike. She was playing nice, and I believe she thought they were on a new civil path to divorce -- finding a nice place for him, continuing to do invoices, etc. It was a lovely day in Salida, sunny and warm.
With a side of dark and foreboding.
Funny (no awful) that Barry himself adds the stench of death to the day's story-- with his chipmunk tale.
Barry, what were you doing at 2:45 on 5/9?
I was home and I was killing things.
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I don't doubt bikers leave contact info in their helmets. Smart. I don't know that they list all the people they know (okay, three). I'm just saying that MAYBE Suzanne's to-do list and the emergency contact list were modified. To fit details. Barry had an order of events...
Didn't Barry say the bullet was in his pocket? Not confident on that so MOO MOO MOO.
Either way,
I believe it was in his pocket. And I think it fell out of his pocket when he took his shorts off.
Right by the bed.
Those scratches on his arm? He didn't say they were work related. He said they were Suzanne-related because IMO the brain doesn't lie. When LE asked, I bet how-they-happened is what popped up in his brain -- something he was NOT going to tell so he told something tamer-- got it from a tree, while hiking or searching for SUZANNE. Point being, it was SUZANNE'S FAULT, she caused the scratches to him. He just sanitized the how, from direct to indirect!!!
During the hours in question, based on LE's timeline and theory of the case, some time between the tranq dart and murder, Barry was close enough to Suzanne -- and Suzanne was alive enough --that she attempted to fight back. Sge was trying not to die which IMO means she knew she was going to. THAT is chilling.
And all I can hear in my head are the words of beautiful Kelsey Berreth as Patrick Frazee beat her to death with a baseball bat....
As if Suzanne to Barry --
Please stop.
JMO