I wonder if he originally disposed of the bike in the dumpster and then thought about it and removed the logo/bike label the following day.
Of course, the banging noise in the dumpster could have been something much more gruesome - just hoping that was not it, but it is possible.
If you read carefully, the logo isn’t necessarily detached from the bike. It is possible that they found the bike or a section of it, with the logo still attached. The warrant reads:
“Evidence recovered from the Albany Ave trash receptacles
contains a logo consistent with a Mercier bike...
So this could mean a piece of evidence, such as a bike section or the bike itself, has that logo still attached, given the wording “contains a logo”. It could of course, just be a piece removed or detached too.
I think they’re being purposefully vague here. Clearly MT identified that the bike was missing from 4JC in the 6/3 photo she was shown. And she said she saw it at 80MS.
The bike in the Sturbridge dumpster is a good idea though. It could make such a banging noise, and it’s a big object to get rid of. While homeless people are always in need of bikes, and FD did lean the big and identifiable car mat up on Albany Ave, it would be really risky for him to haul out his bike on the trash run, and an intact bike would be quite big to stuff in the trash along Albany.
FD texted LA the nanny at 5:39am Saturday morning which is right around the time when the banging was heard in NC. They should be able to see where FDs phone pinged when that text was sent, if he was in NC at that time. It could also have been MT (or even KM) sent to get rid of the bike in the dumpster.
MOO.