and....she adds additional info in the second interview: she wasnt at her BD party, she had to work. it wasnt relevant to mention in her first interview, so why add it in the second interview?
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lots of pieces missing with his movements. and there is no information concerning JS movements that morning, nor the rest of the day.
Glad you brought this up bc it’s really bugging me. I’m wondering Madeline was SA killed shortly after the party. We know step mom received a pic of Madeline with her gifts, I’m assuming that was toward the end of the party.
JMO but I feel as tho Madeline was killed at home after the party, somewhere around late at night or in the first few hours the next day, since LE already suspects she was dead and her body was being moved early morning.
Would SS really have dumped her laptop without deleting things off of it? IDTS, and that would some time unless he did a factory reset style wipe.
What about what was in her backpack? Surely SS would have removed some items from it like a school ID, papers with her name on it…I’d be very interested to know if any evidence went into the backpack that he had hoped would seem innocuous enough but needed to be out of the house…maybe clothing, a pillow case or god knows what that he hoped would be buried at the bottom of a landfill.
If JS saying she wasn't at the party and presumably went straight to bed bc Madeline was already asleep by the time she got home, I could follow the logic of JS knowing absolutely nothing until very late that night or early the next morning.
But what it doesn’t explain is why JS told police she saw Madeline at 8:00 AM when SS was dumping the laptop and backpack less than an hour before. If SS killed Madeline in the early hours of the day after the party, he would have at least until about 7:30ish AM to get himself out the door with her things to throw in the dumpster.
Wondering if he dressed her in the clothing she was reported to have been wearing when she was missing before disposing of her body? Certainly at a minimum doing so could imply something happened to her after drop off, but not before. Obviously getting rid of DNA evidence would be a huge factor in redressing her, but also to point away from anything having happened to her in the home, but rather after drop off.
His movements seem to point to someone who didn’t really have more than maybe 3-4 hours to figure out what to do, what to get rid of, and where to dump her. I don’t want to be grotesque but if the scene of the crime involved one of his firearms, there may have been extensive cleanup. He was very sloppy and seemed as though he didn’t have the time to better plan things out. But I do believe he felt he needed to be seen by some kind of camera near the school, and hence the big