Actually it was reported that the car broke down and was towed. I believe elsewhere it was reported that he had called his brother in association with having the car towed and that the vehicle was in a ditch and that's why his phone was in that area for hours.
"He told investigators he was traveling between Okeechobee and Orlando and that his vehicle, a black Chevy Malibu, broke down during the trip and had to be towed."
http://www.naplesnews.com/news/crime/person-of-interest-jorge-guerrero-in-diana-alvarez-disappearance-transferred-to-lee-349d513e-5a83-7b-381967181.html
Some questions I'm thinking on:
Was the vehicle really broken down and not drivable?
Did no one pass by and remember a car in a ditch, especially after all the searching and news coverage?
Was it actually towed? By who? If so, what does that person have to say? (Commercial tow company or someone they knew towed it?)
Did the brother show up there in person or just assist with arranging for a tow?
If towed, did JG just ride w/ the tow truck to where it was taking the care? Or was he picked up by the brother or even hitchhike to the next location?
I would think all the questions above should be fairly straightforward investigative discoveries for LE. Or...is the broken down car a red herring altogether and his car was in that area for hours (w/ his phone) while he was "busy" nearby w/ Diana and he drove away on his own, in that same black care when he was all done.
His reported story brings his brother and a possible tow truck into the mix, which would lead LE to a car that would need to be proven to LE as underivable for his story to jive. His story also put himself and the phone with a vehicle in a location that LE knows. It's clear from his introduction to all these excuses and potential witnesses that his focus shifts to explaining it all away. At this point in the timeline it makes me believe JG was was "finished" and his intent immediately shifts to coverup work and escape strategy. He knew he needed people, places and things in his story to show there was "nothing to see here" when LE told him they knew he was in that location for hours.
IMO, if Diana was NOT with JG when someone/anyone stopped to help or arrived to meet or even passed by him on the side of the road, then he had already done whatever he intended to do and left little Diana somewhere. Based on that I would guess that Diana is likely to be found along JG's travel path between her house and YeeHaw (per criminal complaint: his phone was near her home between 12am-3am and then left the area headed toward Okeechobee, continuing to YeeHaw). If we assume 3pm departure from Ft.Myers to YeeHaw Junction with a travel time of about 2hrs 20min. he could have had Diana to the YeeHaw location before completely loosing the cover of darkness. Could he have at least been off the roadside and out of direct sight by then? Are there crops planted in this area? Might he have worked nearby and was familiar with the area (awareness space)?
Or, if the car break down/ditch story is indeed a red herring, it is possible he used those few hours at Yeehaw Junction to violate and extinguish her little life and somehow have been able to drive away with a body in the vehicle to dispose of later. If anyone showed up on the side of the road for car trouble she was already gone and hidden before that point I believe. (Could the ground conditions and the rain/muck really have been enough to inhibit a discovery by LE if she were in that area? How much acreage are we talking in that area? He would have been on foot right?)
Police said they found the car in the Amber Alert (tan), he said his car was black. Really want to know about the black car's location and contents. LE knows so much more...just wish they would find her for her Mom.
I just keep thinking about very early on her mother said Diana had never spent a night away from home.
Again...all JMO and all that stuff. Sorry for rambling on and likely repeating myself somewhat too. :sigh: