Can you elaborate on why you think the timing was interesting ?
The one I find creepy is the one dated March 21, 2012 (his current profile pic) The background is a wooded area. It is well known that perps sometimes return to the scene of the crime. I realize the county is surrounded by forestry but I wonder if they could pinpoint that exact location somehow.
If I was LE, I'd be searching there for Holly's body.
Sure...
This is all my harebrained analysis from the perspective of put yourself in the psychopath's shoes....
Ok so "assume" JA murders or is involved in Holly's murder in April 2011. Even thought he is a career criminal, to our knowledge this is the first murder or first big time(media, community, etc) murder he is involved in, so all of 2011
he and his crew seem, except for standard meth-head behavior, a fairly low profile. Having Facebook activity and pictures floating out there at this time would be risky in case somebody recognizes them and remembers something. The point is that for this gang and JA, all of 2011 they are probably constantly looking over there shoulder. Then comes winter, the holidays, and the new year. Everyone relaxes a little over the holidays, and the new year invites a sense of new horizons, even for psychopathic murders right. Also, in early 2012 everyone is thinking the case is cold, no real leads or suspects at that time. JA starts to relax a little. Starts to feel like he needs for people to think he is a legit person with a Facebook picture and everything(psychopaths tend to try and gain your trust, it gives them a sense of power over you), so he posts the first of the three pictures, and its a pretty normal looking picture, you almost would look at it and say, hey this is a normal guy, right, not suspicious at all. Then a few weeks later, its going so good he starts to get cocky and posts the real JA picture...smirking, dark room, dark glasses, because a psychopath needs that kind of attention, however he also has a strong sense of self preservation (reference the whole
born again nonsense), so a few days later he he starts getting nervous about the real JA picture, and people being able to see right off that he is not good at all. Also the one year anniversary of Holly's disappearance is coming up, so the attention and public awareness will be increasing. March 20th, bang, he changes it to a picture of him in the woods but looking pretty normal, i.e. my take on it is that in that area, seeing a Facebook picture of a guy in the woods is normal, and if we didn't know anything else about this guy we would think, hey this guy was probably one of the search party or whatever. It gives the impression of a clean cut normal character.
That was kind of my take on it, rather than a picture taken from the scene of the crime as you suggest, although I could see something like that also and actually thought about that too. Who knows.
Not giving him more credit than is due, just that most psychopaths are cunning and IMO and would think like that. They have a strong sense of self preservation that is always being pushed or overcome by the need for attention/power. This IMO makes there actions somewhat predictable.
The "over there" post mentioning them as possible POI's in late 2012 indicates IMO that they kept a low profile for 2011, but in 2012 let their guard down and started bragging/telling the story.
Sorry my spelling is so bad, and Hope I didn't put anyone to sleep with this whole thing..