Timeline set out by Goff:
Charli murdered the evening/night of Sunday the ninth.
Eggs laid on the body Monday the tenth in time frame between 1 PM and 7 PM.
This means he left the body (in whatever condition), lying out where flies could come, the first night and most of Monday. Flies can get in whether body is under bushes and so forth, hidden from view, but not if taped up and sealed in the blanket (he agreed with Rivera).
Monday night, we pretty well know that Steven got out there after leaving the Kaiser house, maybe around 5 PM.
This is when Goff's timeline says that fly access ceased.
This means that Steven probably wrapped the blanket around her on Monday and left her again.
The reasoning here is that the oldest maggots, from the Monday exposure to flies, were inside the blanket, developed there.
Regarding her clothes, they did not have a horrible smell of decomp that was mentioned, only the blanket, so I think he removed her clothes, possibly even on Sunday, and placed them where he planned to retrieve them and dispose of them later. Had she been clothed in tank top and skirt inside the blanket, the clothes would have been just as infested and full of stench, but they were not, but the bra that was found near the bones did have it and also the maggots. So I think he removed the tank top and skirt first and left the bra.
Next event is unwrapping the blanket, and a second exposure to flies.
Goff says this occurs BY (no later than) 6 AM Wed. 2/12, after an "inactive period" (from Monday 7 PM to some unknown time prior to 6 AM Wednesday.
Goff also says the flies are not active at night, so this would rule out Tuesday after dark.
This leaves Tuesday afternoon as the only time he could have unwrapped the body in my read (open to correction).
Tuesday he started by Skyping, cops interviewing, work at Mana foods, leaving for Keanae with Brooke Scott around 3:30, going out to "the breakdown pullout" -- and then separating himself and getting down to Paraquat's, where he was seen by Brooke and Phaedra leaving at or near dusk? This is very little time to do anything more than to unwrap the blanket. It is not enough time to dismember a body, is it? It's an hour or less by my calculation.
The important thing for Goff's timeline is that the flies COULD access the body (or parts) on Monday day, but COULD NOT for a period of time, but then COULD and did for some time prior to dawn on Wednesday, and that second access was focused not by where the blanket was, but in the spot on the ground that was near the tree and rock, where the bones were found, and her bra.
Now, gruesome as this is to say, he could have dismembered the body on Monday night, and wrapped up the pieces in the blanket instead of the whole person, and taped it up and left it for Tuesday to finish. Then he would have opened it up and removed the body parts, and taken the blanket and his clothes that were there to the stream (and the tape rolls). For transferring to a new and better container, I think a black plastic hefty contractor's bag is more likely than a box. If you have ever bought those, they are made for disposing of construction fragments, and are really tough so that nails and sharp edges don't tear them open.
OR, he buried the parts or took them to the ocean or somehow scattered them, but did he have time on Tuesday afternoon?
When did Kyle smell the decomp by the bridge? Was that Wednesday?
Lastly, it is possible that he began dismembering on Sunday night, starting with her jaw and head. Thus making the knife incision mark on the jawbone very close to time of death, perimortem. What I would speculate there, due to the ultimately short time window he had, is he then realized it was going to take much longer than the time he wanted to spend right after the murder. Let's assume he was in some altered state of shock or rage or something right after. No mood for methodical work, and he has the vehicle to torch, and drugs to sell. This would explain why only the one part of the mandible is marked up. He started and aborted?
So, Hana and beyond. What if his idea was to separate the head and torso. Did Scott Peterson do that? So say he takes her head off and takes it with him to dispose of south of Hana or beyond. It is much smaller than the rest of her, and less risk to have in the vehicle. I am not wedded to the theory, but we need a reason he went out to Hana instead of home. It is dark, and the trauma and decapitation broke the connection between the lower mandible and the head, and the mandible pieces fall off in the dark, and end up hard to see on the ground. This is how they get separated. The torso he leaves there, maybe rolled under some vegetation cover, unclothed except maybe bra.
Monday night he returns to do work and then wraps in blanket until he can get back to do the next step. At that point, there is no search going on that he has heard about, and he figures he has more time that week to work in this remote area that is 4WD only.
There is at least one problem I see with the idea he dismembered her on Monday night. The "younger" maggots on the ground were from eggs laid after an inactive period, lain late Tuesday or Wednesday. But the dismembering is most likely the event that put material on the ground that caused all the maggots. I think this means that the optimum time for creating the material is Tuesday night, because he did not have time to do this on Tuesday afternoon.
Tuesday he followed Brooke and Phaedra to Haiku residence, talked to Kim, went out with Adam Gaines to Keanae, came back to Haiku, "went home" after Adam and Fiona went to Nahiku to get Nala.
Now at this point he learns Nala is found, which he probably did not think was going to happen, and now he is worried? So possible, tired or not, he goes back in the middle of the night and completes the job, and leaves material on the ground that attracts flies at dawn on Wednesday, which is within Goff's timeline. If he does the dismembering in the middle of Tuesday night, exhausted and sleep deprived, that would possibly explain why he doesn't manage to collect everything.
However, I do not think he used HIS truck to transport remains prior to Wednesday morning, because he let the police do a visual search of his truck Wed. morning with no reservation. On THURSDAY morning he bleached his truck. So maybe on Wednesday evening when the others went to Peahi and he was out Hana Highway and not seen again, but claimed he went home, perhaps then he used his truck to move evidence, and bleached the next morning.
I will stop there and hope for feedback.
