@CTGrammy, thanks for this!
I am still puzzling out the Lapham vehicle placements and the timing of the Red Truck arrival/s at Lapham.
AW2 says that the bus cam from 7:05 does not capture the the Red Tacoma, YET it seems to leave open the possiblity that Red Tacoma arrives shortly after 7:05 (I guestimated around 7:08-7:10 under this scenario) at Lapham.
The next buscam does have the Red Tacoma pictured I believe at 7:40. Per this information we only know FOR SURE that the Red Tacoma was at Lapham at 7:40 and can only infer the arrival of the Red Tacoma at 7:08-7:10.
Many have speculated that there might have been another person in the Red Tacoma on the 24th. Based on the photos in AW2 its impossible to say whether there was/was not anyone else in the Red Tacoma with FD on the 24th.
If, however, you believe that there was an accomplice it might have made sense for the vehicle to exit the Merritt at Rt124/Exit 37 and drive to drop FD off near Welles so he was positioned well in advance of JD arriving at the house. The Red Truck then drives to Lapham and is then captured on the bus cam at 7:40.
The Red Truck being parked in the turnout against traffic on Lapham doesn't make much sense (some I think have speculated that it would make it easier to FD to slip out the driver door and into the woods by the mulch pits and towards Rt124). I'm not sure with the elevation shift from Lapham to Rt124 this would necessarily work but have to take a close look at this issue under the jogging to Welles scenario. But for this post I am just puzzling out the 'accomplice scenario option' for the Red Tacoma.
But, the other thing that I am puzzled by is the Suburban being parked 100ft behind the Red Tacoma on the same side of the street after FD drives it from Welles to Lapham. I don't understand this distance if your goal is to transfer the body from one vehicle to another?
If there was an accomplice present, did the Red Tacoma move upon the arrival of the Suburban to accomplish the body transfer? Were other cars present and that is why the Red Tacoma and the Suburban could not be parked closer together? Or, did the Suburban originally pull up closer to the Red Tacoma, the body transfer was done and then the Suburban was moved back to the place it was found?
There is still a time gap present at Lapham from the time the Suburban is estimated to have arrived and when it is captured on CCTV travelling on the Merritt Northbound.
Did the body transfer and possible phone disposal at Waveny to establish the 'missing while jogging' scenario eat up all of the time gap? All we know for sure I believe is that the JD phone followed the path of the Suburban from Welles to Lapham. The AW2 states that the body of JD was believed to be in the Suburban as it left Welles. But was the JD body in the Suburban by the time it arrived at Lapham? Maybe if the body wasn't in the Suburban then the fact that the Suburban was 100ft away from the Red Tacoma becomes less important? Maybe there was no body transfer at Lapham?
But what other options might there have been for body transfer between Welles and Lapham if FD didn't want to transfer a body on a street in broad daylight? Transferring a body (even one bundled in the Suburban mat) on Lapham while not impossible, does seem a bit improbable IMO. IDK.
Still challenged to put this together based on AW2 information. Ideas?
Here is the very helpful GH diagram to help sort out possibilities:
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Source: Gray Hughes Investigations/You Tube (2019)