You're right. Wasn't there 12 minutes unaccounted for while he was still in New Canaan, or am I confusing that with another crime? I just don't think he'd drive all the way back to Farmington with Jennifer's body in the Tacoma. But I could be wrong. He was very daring when he was alive.
Your account of the bike being thrown in the dumpster that caused it to clang makes a lot of sense.
MOO
IMO, as far as we know from the arrest and search warrants, there were 3 to 4 unaccounted for gaps in time in which something significant could have happened with JFD's body after it left 69 Welles Ln in the back of her own Suburban.
39 minutes in New Canaan - after JFD's Suburban was seen leaving 69 Welles Lane at 10:25 am and before the Toyota subsequently showed up on the surveillance at the New Canaan Rest Area at 11:12 am. (47 minute time interval less 3 minute drive of JFD Suburban to Lapham Rd and less 5 minute drive of Toyota from Lapham Rd to NC Rest Area).
74 minutes somewhere between New Canaan and Farmington - after Toyota arrived at 80 MS Rd at 12:22 pm, but before FD arrived at 80 MS Rd in his own Suburban at the same time as MT arrived there in the Jeep at 1:36 pm.
If a transfer was made from JFD's Suburban in New Canaan to FD's Suburban or Jeep or a sequence of both rather than to the Toyota, those two gaps together (before those vehicles show up at 80 MS Rd later) make a combined 1 hour and 53 minute gap.
41 minutes again in and around Farmington and surrounding areas - when Jeep leaves 80 MS Rd at 2:24 until it returns at 3:55 and is believed by some (based on timing of search warrants of cell towers) to have made trip from 80 MS Rd to Avon to Bristol and back to 80 MS Rd (1 hour 30 minute time interval less a 50 minute driving trip... 10 minutes plus 25 plus 15). Remember, the Jeep departed and then shortly thereafter returned after a cellphone call occurred between FD and MT, then steps were taken to figure out when employee PG would return to the area before the Jeep departed again at 2:24. MT also took steps after the Jeep returned from its trip later to make sure PG could not reach either of them at that expected arrival time.
Finally, there is an unaccounted for 102 minute gap between the time FD left 80 MS Rd in his Raptor immediately after PG did in the Toyota and before the Raptor later reaches Albany Ave (5:28 pm to 7:31 pm is 123 minute time interval less 3 minute drive from 80 MS Rd to 4JC and then 18 minute drive from 4JC to Albany Ave).
It is worth remembering that at some point during one of these intervals, JFD's t-shirt and brassiere were removed from her body and disposed of in those plastic bags that FD placed in the trash receptacles FD and MT visited on Albany Ave. The zip ties that had been used on her body or remains were also removed and found in those bags.
So, were those clothing items and zip ties removed in New Canaan? That seems unlikely to me given the high risk of detection or capture involved in doing that in such close proximity to the scene of the abduction or murder.
So, WHEN were those items removed and placed in the garbage bags and WHAT made their removal necessary? And how do the subsequent vehicle movements up to the Albany Ave run fit in with those assumptions?