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12:05 | Det. Hunt interviews SS at [redacted-VBV]. | SS is interviewed at least three times by detectives at VBV. At one point, he is asked to not return to his car. JS is told at an unknown time that they will have to sleep elsewhere for the night and that the Lincoln MKZ was going to be towed. At some point after 20:38, detectives ask for the home to be cleared and secured, but this does not mean that JS and SS are made to leave, as SS is interviewed at the residence some time after 23:00. The house is closed and secured at 01:00 on 02/29. | 896 page doc dump |
Some point after 16:00 | At some point after responding to the scene (16:00) Det. Tagler, while she and Det. Acosta conducted an interview, asked SS to not go back into his car (presumably the silver Lincoln MKZ). | 896 page doc dump | |
After 20:38 | Dets. Tagler and Acosta ask Det. Hunt to clear and secure the residence (VBV) | 896 page doc dump | |
Unknown time, but likely around 20:38 | Dets. Tagler and Acosta interview [redacted-JS] and notify her that she will need to stay somewhere else for the night and that SS's car would be towed for processing because [redacted-MS] was last seen in that car. | 896 page doc dump | |
About 23:00 | Det. Hunt interviews SS at [redacted-VBV]. | 896 page doc dump | |
Prior to 01:00 | Dets. Tagler and Acosta interview SS at [redacted-VBV]. | 896 page doc dump | |
About 01:30 | SS's vehicle (presumably the silver Lincoln MKZ) is towed to Central Operations. | 896 page doc dump | |
02:13 | Surveillance footage from the hotel (TownePlace Suites) shows SS, his father CS, and [redacted-JS] checking in to the hotel at the front desk. | SS, JS, and CS are seen checking in to two rooms at TownePlace Suites. CS estimated that it was about 03:15, but surveillance footage shows it was an hour prior. SS is then seen exiting the hotel at 04:42 and is not seen returning until several hours later. | 896 page doc dump |
03:15 | Christopher Sterns says he met with SS at their hotel (TownePlace Suites), checked in, then the both went to bed in their respective rooms. | North Port PD docs | |
03:19 | Debra Sterns heard someone inside her North Port home who she believed could not have been her husband but might have been her son, SS. She believed SS might have returned to abandon redacted-MS in the woods near the house. | DS very specifically remembers that her dogs alerted at 03:19 and was confident it was not CS but thought it was SS. This is not possible, since SS and CS are seen on camera about 2 hours away just an hour before, and SS is seen on camera again less than an hour and a half later. | North Port PD docs |
04:42 | SS exits the hotel (TownePlace Suites) through the front entrance. | 896 page doc dump | |
04:42 to 10:55 | Unspecified information shows that [redacted-JS]'s vehicle was driven on US-192 and southwest toward North Port. | After leaving the hotel, unspecified information shows JS's vehicle, presumably driven by SS, driving toward North Port, entering at 06:29 and leaving at 07:46. Early information indicated that CS's storage unit may have been accessed at 09:08, but it appears this was a misinterpretation of the data, and that nothing other than his presence in North Port points toward SS accessing the storage locker. | 896 page doc dump |
06:29 | A vehicle connected to [suspect-SS] entered North Port at approximately this time. | North Port PD docs | |
07:28 | SS's father CS exits the hotel (TownePlace Suites) through the front entrance. | CS left the hotel at 07:28, and nothing indicates where he might have gone. JS contacted him around 09:00-09:45 to ask if he knew where SS was, and he presumably stated he didn't. JS took her dog out at 09:54 and came back a few minutes later. CS returned to the hotel at 10:50. | 896 page doc dump |
07:38 | Detectives arrived to execute search warrant of [redacted-VBV] | 896 page doc dump | |
07:46 | A vehicle connected to [suspect-SS] left North Port at approximately this time. | North Port PD docs | |
Possibly 09:08 | SS is believed to have visited his father's storage unit in North Port for approximately 10 minutes before returning to I-75. Later information (59) may contradict this. | North Port PD docs | |
Between 09:00 and 09:45 | CS says [redacted-JS] contacted him and asked if he know where SS had went, as he had left their hotel shortly before. | North Port PD Docs | |
09:54 to 10:03 | [redacted-JS] exits the hotel (TownePlace Suites) through the main front entrance then returns. | 896 page doc dump | |
10:50 | SS's father CS re-enters the hotel (TownePlace Suites) through the main front entrance. | 896 page doc dump | |
10:55 | SS re-enters the hotel (TownePlace Suites) through the main front entrance. | SS returned to the hotel at 10:55. It is possible that he made stops on his way back from North Port, but 3 hours is also a plausible driving duration for that time of day. CS says SS returned around 11:15-11:30 and he found out SS went to North Port, but it's unclear if SS told him this or told him why. | 896 page doc dump |
Between 11:15 and 11:30 | CS says SS returned to the hotel. He later learned his son had traveled to North Port, but says he did not know. ~2 redacted sentences elaborate on this. | North Port PD Docs | |
15:02 | [Redacted-JS] is transported by LE from the hotel (TownePlace Suites) to the Sheriff's Office for a planned press conference. SS was also taken in a separate car, so presumably that happened at the same time. | 896 page doc dump | |
15:07 | [Redacted-JS] checks out of the hotel (TownePlace Suites) room that she and SS were staying in. SS's father (CS) stays another day. | JS checks out of the hotel at 15:07 and she and SS are driven separately to the Sheriff's Office Central Operations for a press conference that had been planned. The press conference begins at 15:33. It is unknown if JS or SS were ever planned to appear in the press conference, but they ultimately do not. | 896 page doc dump |
15:12 | Det. Acosta drives from the hotel (TownePlace Suites) to Central Operations for a planned press conference. | 896 page doc dump | |
15:33 | Orange County Sheriff's Office holds a press conference. Only Sheriff Mina appears on camera. | Orange County Sheriff's Office - Sheriff FB | |
After 16:45 | At some point after 16:45, Det. Morris interviews SS at the Sheriff's Office. | SS is interviewed again at some point after 16:45, and then arrested for sexual battery and possession of CSAM, at which point he can obviously no longer move freely. | 896 page doc dump |
Evening, prior to 19:00 | SS is arrested for sexual battery and possession of child sexual abuse material and named as the prime suspect in MS's disappearance. LE specifies only "evening," but posted a video of SS around 19:00. | Orange County Sheriff's Office - Sheriff FB | |