Did anyone actually walk the dog that morning? Do we know?
I wonder if the real reason SS entered JS’ room was to put Maddie’s phone on the charger? It appeared maybe he was trying to hack into it later while JS was out and only he and their roommate Natalia was home. Maybe when he opened the door to JS’ room the dog was accidentally let in too and jumped on the bed. Panicking because it was waking up JS, he lied and said he was going to walk the dog when he really he needed the leash just to get it out so that JS would quickly fall back asleep before she noticed Maddie’s phone on the charger and he already left the house.
I don’t know what to make of JS’ emotions. MOO it seems like she didn’t care but then Angelica and Natalia both claim that she was a wreck at home in the days following Maddie’s disappearance. Her ex-husband seems to confirm that she was in a state of emotional distress as did the homicide detective who overheard breakdown over the phone after being told they found Maddie’s body. Another investigator had noted she became extremely upset when she saw CSAM photos. Her reactions seem confounding to me but maybe LE and family has more insight available than we do about why her affect seems so blunted at times and she also appears as she put it spacey.
If IIRC too LE noted that SS had scratches on him. I need to reread the document to remember where they were noted but I wonder if perhaps that indicates Maddie put up a fight and these are defensive wounds?
One more factor I noticed that IMO SS may have taken advantage of to unfortunately predate on and harm Maddie and further put her safety at risk is that JS’ medications typically did knock her out. Her ex-husband, DS and CS all noted that whenever JS, and according to his parents, SS use the drugs prescribed to them they tended to sleep all day and were difficult to wake up. Her roommate Natalia also mentioned that JS was an heavy sleeper when she took her meds and even slept through her multiple attempts of alerting her that someone was trying to break into her car in front of her house. Her ex-husband noted this sleep pattern was new to him and attributed it to an antipsychotic she was currently taking. Predators of children’ who parents experience similar side-effects could use this information to time when they sexually assault knowing that their parents would be unresponsive to their shouts for help, crying, thuds and any other alarming or questionable noises coming from within their home or their children that would normally trigger their concern and wake them right up.
It is still crazy to me that she let SS and Maddie sleep alone, even after indicating she knew about cases like Woody Allen one. It would also be crazy to me that no mandated reporter, like a doctor or therapist, had asked Maddie or her mother about how she slept and then addressed with both of them the inappropriateness of sleeping alone with SS. Or that those conversations wouldn’t eventually lead further into uncovering the sexual assault. I know at least her roommate tried to confront JS but if Maddie’s doctors knew she wasn’t sleeping alone because of her anxiety did they ask then her and her mother who she slept with? Or did someone, like Maddie’s legal guardian JS, decide to keep that information hidden from them and if so, why and what insight could be gained from that?
Also, no one, like her teachers or school nurse for example, thought it was weird that Maddie was so ‘spacey’ and tired during the day even though her ADHD stimulant was being treated with the stimulant Adderral? And out of concern for Maddie’s well-being, did her needing leave class to speak to the counselor require further intervention with mandatory participation of her parent/s? It should have.
