MsBetsy
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I don't think there's much of a hole in the timeline. If he pulled over and got out of the car around 8:20, chased her down and disabled her, dragged her back to the car and put her in the trunk, it could have easily been 8:27 when he took off down the road.Agent says lack of Spanish skills delayed Iowa investigation
Vileta said the evidence suggests Tibbetts was abducted on a road outside Brooklyn after 8 p.m., but that he does not know precisely where or when she was killed.
Data from Tibbetts’ cellphone provider shows her phone was moving at a running pace before accelerating to over 60 mph around 8:27 p.m. and eventually slowing down and stopping more than 10 miles away, FBI agent Kevin Horan testified. By 8:53 p.m., her phone went dark.
This suggests to me that CBR did not take Mollie to his house, which is less than 6 miles south of 385th Ave. on 200 (but he likely drove right past his house).
But I agree there is an opening for wonder at this stop he made. What happened there?
Iirc, in the beginning when LE was looking at the pig farmer, they were saying that it was near her phone's last ping. Somewhere there was a stop, and it was 26 minutes from when her phone suddenly headed south from 385th to when it went off.
There's definitely a hole in our knowledge of events.
He may have sped off initially, but I doubt he was driving that fast all the way to the cornfield. He also may have spent several minutes driving around, searching for a secluded spot. Maybe he even considered going to his house, but decided it was too risky.
He either turned off her phone before removing her from the trunk, or right after he covered the body and got back to his car. Imo