Oh, and one last thing to ponder... what is in those totes that is so heavy?
[Forgive me if this is too graphic...]
I just... I don't really think there are bodies in the totes. For one, while JJ is small enough that I suppose with some, uh... careful rearrangement it's possible, I just don't think it's very realistic for Tylee. I have plenty of those totes around here - and I've used them for moving, a lot - so I'm familiar with the size, and well, to put it bluntly, her torso would take more than rearrangement.
And they don't seem to be hiding any tools in the storage.
But the weight might well be right for that possibility. The totes are too heavy for toys, for clothes, for bedding. Dishes, if they were plates and glassware, possibly. Books. Canned goods. Maybe electronics, depending on what it was, like a desktop cpu + monitor, etc. A tote full of photo albums and envelopes.
A thought, since we're wondering about the in/out from storage... are we absolutely certain that it wasn't being used as a way to transfer items between people? Say, a dead drop? Do we have enough information to confirm that the same items went in that came out, basically, that everything is accounted for?
Does this storage facility have a gate that you have to enter with a keycode? Those log time of entry. I wonder if they used a system like that to determine what times to check the video, or if they went through the complete videos to manually determine everyone who accessed that storage unit? Because it would be totally possible for SOMEONE ELSE who had a storage unit at the same facility to enter the facility with their own codes, and access Lori's unit. And if the storage facility only checked the security video for the times that matched the entry logs... they could miss other people accessing that same unit.
I don't know if I explained that right... but it would certainly explain the seemingly strange behavior of removing stuff just days after putting it in the unit.