I have been following this case from before it came here (subie posted about it on another forum) and I have a few things that I want to add.
I have a really good friend who has Asperger's. She is married and has two kids, one of whom has been diagnosed on the autism spectrum (extreme side, non verbal, zero social skills, etc.), The one thing that I have noticed about her since I have been living with her for about 3 years now is that she lacks impulse control and doesn't catch on social cues, etc, but her biggest issue is that she lies about everything. It is almost as if she doesn't seem to realize that she is lying (or if she does, she thinks its okay to do). She has a real problem with money, if she has any she feels that she has to spend it, she can not save money. She has been working as a cashier for a year now and since she has been working her impulse control with money has gotten worse. She bought an XBox 360, never played it and eventually sold it to a pawn shop. Her son gets disability from social security each month, and since he's a minor, she is the payee which is a bad idea, she manages to pay the rent each month from his money, and anything that is left she blows on frivolous things for herself or her daughter, rather than using it for the son whom its is intended. She has never learned how to drive, so she is dependent on friends/family etc. to get her around town. She also has a few 'friends' (female) who only want to hang with her when she has money or food stamps (which she uses on them), and when myself or her husband try to point this out to her she 'shuts down' and storms off to her room. So in this situation with Jenna being Asperger's I can totally understand how she might have been molded or fooled into doing something, lets say less than legal, for her 'friends', and from what I have been reading here and the excellent timeline that has been put together, I can see a few scenarios that could have happened:
1) J is housesitting for the weekend, only has to worry about the cat whom she loves, otherwise she has a very nice house that is in a quiet neighborhood to herself. One of her 'friends' calls/texts/FB messages, etc her and 'suggests' that they invite a few other 'friends' over and have a party (this was mentioned earlier that the house showed signs of a party). Obviously not many came over, otherwise the neighbors would have reported that to LE or the family. So in the course of this little get together the buffet cover frame gets hit and either cracks or breaks in the corner. Now perhaps J had someone take it out of the frame, or someone else did it on there own, that is really not important, imho. Also while this little get together is happening a 'friend' of J's says to her that he/she knows about a private party that is going on and it is really cool, etc.and it is worded in such a method that she wants to go to it (one question I have that I don't recall being asked: did Jenna drink alcohol?) I understand that the family is Jewish, but must admit not knowing much about the religion, is Alcohol allowed in Judaism? I only ask because other religions such as the Mormon's do not allow alcohol.
At this private party something happened to Jenna, maybe some slipped her a roofie, or GBH (date rape drug) and then took advantage of her. Now she is ashamed or too embarrassed to come home, so she is hiding.
2) Same type of theory as above (party at house) but perhaps her 'friends' hooked her up with someone who is in the sex trade businesses, as lots have pointed out Atlanta seems to be a hot spot for this type of thing. Allot here have been showing how she has been showing signs of being groomed, and with her disorder, I can see that this would be fairly easy to do, and also if someone came into the pet store she worked at on a regular bases, it most likely would not take much to pick up on the fact that she has a disorder. I know myself that I frequent a store enough that I have developed a re-pore with allot of the workers and I could tell you if any of them had ADD/ADHD, autism, etc with a fair amount of success (I have not done that, just pointing out that it would be easy). So my third theory:
3)An unknown person (I will call them X) happens across her at the pet store, notices that she is very pretty and friendly. X comes into the store frequently when Jenna was working and starts talking to her, realizes that Jenna has a mental disorder, and decides to take advantage of this. So over the course of a few months X comes into the store more and more and maybe brings another person along, X and Y start talking to her, and perhaps Jenna makes a comment about she doesn't like her boss, or something to that effect, (maybe she needs housing as well?) and X and Y start tag teaming her (I have noticed that with my friend if me and her daughter or someone else are telling her something, she is more likely to listen) and they mention that they (or someone they know) needs money or has an apartment she could lease and they tell her 'if you take a few dollars out of your drawer, they are not going to notice...' so she starts to do that, and perhaps X comes back and says 'You doing good, but (the apartment, etc) needs just a bit more,and they convince her to take more cash maybe saying 'with your disability, you won't get arrested, etc." really laying it on so she feels that she really needs to help this person out. So, as we know, she did get caught stealing from her employer, and they did indeed prosecute her. So fast forward, she has been asked to move out of mom and dad's place and she has been couch surfing for a time, then she manages to get an apartment but never tells anyone about it (strange, but perhaps she was told not to?) Then Mom calls her and tells her that they are going to Canada to watch the eclipse and that her (Jenna) cat needs medication and can you please come over and watch the house while we are gone, and let the vet tech in to give you cat medicine. Jenna jumped at that, because she loves the cat and sleeping in her bed again was probably a wonderful idea to her. So we know from the timeline that she was over the night before the tech was due to come over, and she had some type of party (again, not very many people over) but lets say X and Y are there and at this point they have gotten money from her, so the next step is to get her, so they invite her to a private party, she goes with them and then they drug her and she then becomes a piece of property that is sold and traded for sexual purposes.