Just finished watching the Disappeared episode. It leans very heavily (and rightly, in my opinion) towards AJ, which is why I'm surprised that, according to the Charley Project description, his roommates—plural—divided Brian's belongings among themselves after he disappeared. Is there more info on this? The episode mentioned only that AJ had his car, and CP adds the cellphone and passport. What did the other roommates have?
The episode also went out of its way to portray Andrew in a good and cooperative light, but two things felt off to me about his interview. One, he said Brian moved in on December 15, and Andrew left for Christmas vacation a week later on December 22. But then he talks about the "palpable" tension between Brian, his ex AJ, and AJ's new love interest, all three of them living in the same house. I mean, I guess a week is enough time to pick up on that, but in my opinion, the way Andrew talks about it makes it seem like something you'd need more time to notice. Especially one part where Andrew says he was walking by Brian's room, and Brian had the door open, but had positioned himself in such a way as to have his ear against the wall so he could hear what might be going on between AJ and his new love interest in the next room. Like I don't see myself noticing that behavior to that level of detail in just one week, especially right before Christmas when I'd be busy with shopping, upcoming vacation plans, and also a full-time job, as Andrew said he had.
But two, in the episode, the police officer says that when he went to check the house about a month later, he saw that Brian's room had no door, that a plastic bag was covering where the door was, and that the room inside was in complete disarray. All this led him to suspect violence or an altercation. Now, Andrew claimed he'd left on vacation on December 22, came back a few weeks later to find Brian wasn't there, and didn't think much of it. But did he not think it weird that a room that once had a door, by his own testimony, now no longer had one? And why was stuff inside suddenly strewn all around when a few weeks ago it wasn't?
So again, to read that the roommates—plural—had divided Brian's belongings among themselves just makes me question Andrew's story, and I wonder if it's trying to set up "suicide" as an explanation for the disappearance.
