Remember how Patrick Frazee tricked Kelsey into getting blindfolded under the guise they were going to play a name-that-candle-scent game? That whole scenario was particularly messed up, the fact that here she was trusting him while he was about to take her freaking life.
Something tells me that MF didn’t suddenly ambush HB. She’d had 9 months to come up with a plan, and had even been at Margo’s birth so poor HB must’ve trusted her basically with anything. There are countless scenarios that could’ve played out that made sense for HB to go with her willingly. I tend to think it was a sort of very rushed fake emergency situation, and that’s why Heidi’s purse was in the car still and unlocked. It may have had to do with HB’s pretend baby being injured or possibly at a nearby hospital and she needed her immediately for emotional support. They may have argued briefly in the apartment because HB wanted to grab Margo’s car seat and HB might’ve been snappy and insisting there was no time for that, she could just use her fake baby’s car seat that was already in the car.
That’s as far as I can get with that theory though. Because it appears that Heidi’s phone was shut off and I think that would’ve happened early on, before they could be tracked to the scene of the crime, wherever it was to happen. It seems like Heidi was likely controlled by *something* in that car, whether it be that MF quickly incapacitated her, or something else. I can’t imagine MF being able to keep HB from grabbing the steering wheel or rolling down the window and screaming, unless it was something as lethal as a gun. It leads me more to think she either immediately incapacitated HB somehow, OR she had a really good, believable reason for Heidi to be unsuspecting until she was at the scene of the crime (where she was put or ordered into the trunk and strangled).
The phone, though. It was off at 1:40 but do we know it was off prior to that? I’m kind of thinking MF was waiting for her in the parking lot when she arrived home from the book fair because that could explain the purse in the car and it being unlocked. So I wonder what time her phone was actually turned off. I can’t imagine any reason (except one off the top of my head) that HB would willingly turn her phone off. Maybe MF said she took her baby with her to score some drugs and something went wrong and needed her help to get her baby back but needed Heidi to shut off her phone so it couldn’t be tracked in case something went down with her dealer nobody would know they’d gone there. BUT THAT IS PREPOSTEROUS lol. So, I’m pretty convinced it was shut down deliberately by MF. I’m just surprised that HB wouldn’t have told SC that something urgent had come up and where she was going with MF if she was going anywhere urgent and still had control of her phone at first. Pretty sure it was not a long trip to Austin or she would’ve told him for sure IMO.
Sorry, I’m just kinda thinking out loud here but this case is so puzzling.
I also don’t get why MF would tell people the baby she was supposedly expecting was a boy IF she knew that HB was having a girl. In this day and age I think it’s rare to not want to know the gender, but it’s possible that HB and SC wanted to be surprised. But if that were the case I would’ve thought evil, plotting MF would’ve said “I want to be surprised too” rather than guess, and be wrong. But who knows how these sick sociopaths really think?
All that said, if Heidi were incapacitated from the get go kinda seems more likely I guess. Because MF knew HB completely trusted her and she had 9 months to plan out something plausible to get HB to go with her willingly. Then again, maybe she did but soon had to go with a backup plan because HB wasn’t cooperating like she thought she would.
Time will tell if we ever get the truth about details like these. In the meantime I feel like I’m losing my mind trying to figure it out. Such a brutal, tragic case with the bittersweet ending of baby Margo being found alive.