I wonder if he had any logic when he did that? Any thought process at all? I cannot come up with a single good reason for him to have dumped her things in that dumpster, nor for him to have RETURNED there at 8:19am wherein police saw Maddie ON CAM in his vehicle (possibly dead already!). Can anyone come up with a reason??
Best I came up with for his return with her body in the car was so that he could go inside and use a device to plan where to take her and come up with his story as to where he dropped her off.
OOPS I thought I made two separate responses. Guess not.
My first thought was NO, NONE, and that he was wandering around in a sheer, blind panic attempting to get rid of Maddy and all her things before she was discovered missing when her mom when to pick her up in the afternoon.
However, it has occurred to me to think perhaps in his haze, he thought Mondays were trash days at the apartment complex. If so, perhaps he anticipated the dumpsters would be emptied and all Maddy's possessions safely in the landfill before she was discovered missing.
Putting her things that close to home appears the most dangerous thing he could have done. However, if he felt positive dumpsters
were emptied on Mondays at the apartment and he had no idea when other dumpsters would be checked. Well, it almost makes sense doesn't it?
Apparently, dumpsters were not emptied on Mondays - not that one at least.
Also, returning home at 8:29, I agree with the idea of using a computer to look up locations to leave Maddy. And perhaps to look for ways to not be connected to a body. Plus, maybe he knew Jenn would be up and gone from the apartment by that time.
Wouldn't his computer searches be interesting? Wonder if he would have searched anonymously?
So, he found taking bodies across jurisdictions, a la Ted Bundy and went down in Osceola County, out of both Orange and Kissimmee.
He also avoided Rex Heuermann's fatal mistake of bagging his victim as left to the elements and nature, almost everything gets washed away and scattered.
I'm so thankful SS was not given the gift of time for nature to conceal his brutality. I am also thankful for the flat tire that exposed SS to passers by and surveillance cameras.
Was he able to think at 7:35 a.m.? I don't know. Maybe.
My guess is that it must be alleged that SS was the stepfather for him to be eligible for the charges that he was in a “custodial” role (see payrollnerd’s listing of the charges). It occurs to me that JS did us all a favor by saying SS was the stepfather. Did SS ever refer to himself as such?
The lawyer in me wonders if the defense can knock out those charges by proving SS was not the stepfather (legally not married to mom). Fortunately, it will be years before that appeal can be heard and with all the solid evidence of murder - and I’m sure there is more being developed as we speak - this is still, IMO, a death penalty case.
If SS himself referred to Madeline as his stepdaughter, then what? If inside the family it was understood it was a stepfather/stepdaughter relationship, would that carry weight?
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