I'm listening to the Monster's police interview. At about 24:00 he describes Maddie's backpack with the same odd specificity as JS did, as grayish with hibiscus flowers on it. Both of them gave more details about the backpack than anything else about Maddie's appearance that day.
I don't have a link handy but I'm sure it would be easily found via google. In the first 911 call made by JS's sister, she has to ask JS what Maddie was wearing and she said a green sweater.*
Later in one of the TV interviews, JS says Maddie was wearing a green hoodie.
Such uncertainty about what Maddie was wearing and yet so specific about what the backpack looked like, from both of them.
I realize that JS probably saw the backpack every day, but when asked what your missing child was wearing, what does it matter what kind of flowers were on her backpack? You would just say a backpack with flowers on it.
Which was, of course, the same backpack that SS put in a dumpster.
I'm smelling rehearsal, and it stinks really bad.
*That's not even mentioning how in one of her interviews JS says "and that's when I called 911" when she never called 911. She knew Maddie wasn't going to be found so why bother calling 911? IMO.