I'm trying to establish the timing of MG's interactions with Alex, and other linked events, based on her interview. Entries in
blue text are
not factual, they are my guesses. I guess I'm interested in knowing what impact her actions and questions might have had on the rest of the group.
Tue 26 Nov
Welfare check for JJ. Police speak to Chad, Alex and Lori.
Chad drives away and police speak to him again.
Chad calls MG (who is in Utah) and asks her not to pick up when police call, tells her JJ is not with Kay and Lori is going to tell police JJ is with MG.
Lori calls MG and asks her to lie about having JJ.
MG planned to drive to AZ for Thanksgiving.
Police speak to MG late that evening.
Lori and Alex are packing up a truck that evening.
Wed 27 Nov
Police return to find empty apartments.
MG is driving to AZ. On the drive she calls Lori and Chad to pray for them because they said they were in danger, and were going to California. (NOTE she does not say anything about knowing they were going to Hawaii after California.)
Chad/Lori are en route to SLC airport.
Alex drives the truck to AZ?
MB is driving to AZ to be with IP?
Thu 28 Nov - Thanksgiving.
Alex goes to ZP's house?
MG is in AZ.
MG meets Alex and they talk about Lori throwing MG under the bus and MG's doubts about zombies?
Chad/Lori are in California with Chad's children.
MB is with IP in AZ.
Fri 29 Nov
8pm
Alex marries ZP in Las Vegas (fly or drive? 300 miles from Gilbert.)
Sat 30 Nov
5pm MB marries IP in Las Vegas.
Alex and ZP in Las Vegas
Sun 1 Dec
Chad/Lori fly from L.A. to Kauai.
Some boxes from ID are delivered to Kauai first week Dec - who posted them?
Alex and ZP in Las vegas
Mon 2 Dec
Alex and ZP in Las vegas
Tue 3 Dec
MBP is interviewed by Rexburg police.
Alex and ZP in Las Vegas
Wed 4 Dec
Alex and ZP in Las Vegas
Thu 5 Dec
IP and NP meet with Rexburg police per discovery docs.
IP records that Alex and ZP were still in Las Vegas preparing earthquakes when he met with police.
Someone tells Alex between 28 Nov and 5 Dec that MG is going to talk to police.
Fri 6 Dec
MG contacts Rexburg police.
Sat 7 Dec
Sun 8 Dec
Mon 9 Dec
Tue 10 Dec
Wed 11 Dec
Tammy's body was exhumed.
Thu 12 Dec
MG had one further conversation with Chad / Lori after 6 Dec and before Alex's death. (Nate does not ask if MG told them she had been to the police)
Alex died.
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MG's statements, in interview order: -
48:09
NE: What was your thought when you heard all of this talk about zombies?
MG: I did question it, all of us did. I mean
I sat and talked to Alex about that, a few weeks before he passed away. I'm like 'I'm not sure, I'm not too sure about this zombie thing'. He goes 'I 100% believe it'.
NE: He said he 100% believed it?
MG: Yes. So Alex really did believe.
57:29
MG: You know,
after I get to Arizona and everything I was talking to Alex cos I wanted to
meet with him. And he goes 'I cannot believe she threw you under the bus like that'.
NE: So Alex came to your defense?
MG: And I said 'I can't believe she did either'. I said 'I can't believe she said that'. I don't...that was not smart.
59:14
MG: After thinking and pondering and talking to a really good friend, I'm like 'there's something, there's something o...(odd? video cut) and I admitted, I said 'I'm very, very concerned about this zombie idea, I really don't believe it', and my friend said 'I don't think it's true either'. Then we talked about...we talked and talked til 5 o'clock in the morning, I mean we talked about everything, the belief structure and all these different things. We talked about all kinds of things about these doctrines, we talked about many things...
1:08:18
NE: After she dies, after they get married, you get that call 'don't answer the phone', did they call you or communicate at all with you during that week?
MG: I called once
on my way to Arizona, and I was concerned for their safety because that's what they led me to believe, so I wanted to have a prayer, I was like let's just say a prayer, pull over on the side of the road, let's say a prayer and Chad was very nervous and didn't seem that settled at all, and she seemed fine.
NE: So you were still on their side?
MG: Yeah,
NE: But Chad was nervous.
ME: Yes he was.
NE: Lori was acting like it was a normal day.
MG: Yep.
NE: So you spoke the one time over the course of that week?
MG: No, I spoke to her
when I decided that there's something going on, that's awfully wrong, and so a friend of mine called both of them, so I called Chad's phone and I knew she wouldn't answer cos I didn't think any of her phones were working any more, and so I just said 'I have no testimony that you've shared the things, you know, your own personal experiences that are sacred, I have no testimony of that, it doesn't fit the pattern that I see that's, you know, the pattern of things I've seen within our own church', and I had a hard time speaking honestly it was very hard conversation for me. I said very little, um and I said 'could you just please tell us where the kids are, if they're safe, why didn't', no I said I think the first question is 'why haven't you told us where the kids are?' 'Well for your safety we cannot tell you.' And that was just alarming for me cos I was like well 'what safety?' 'Why am I in danger?' I didn't feel like I was in danger. They wouldn't answer us of course and I shared, I really didn't have a testimony for things, I never got that confirmation that the things they shared with me were true or not. So we hung up with that conversation.
I went to talk to the police after that and um once I talked to them (police) I basically had a long conversation with, well kind of a long conversation with both of them about a lot of personal feelings about 'I am concerned for you, I'm concerned for your salvation, the things that you've done', I said 'this is not light this is darkness' and I asked again, like 'why did you tell the police I had the kid
s?'
, and she said 'well I told them because of for you know safety of JJ' and these different answers, um and so she did you know share that she lied about it and I asked a little bit about a few other things, can't recall everything it was kind of a long conversation and it was very, I was very uncomfortable talking to her, it was very, it was a disturbing conversation.
NE: Is that when you said that they were evil?
MG: Yeah.
NE: And how did they react to that?
MG: They didn't like that very much. Um I just continued to tell her that I was concerned for them. And I am, and I was.
1:12:38
NE: What did you think had happened to Alex?
MG: I had many different ideas. I thought, 'did he kill himself?' 'did he um...' He did realize that I was gonna tell the police, he did,
that was made known to him. And so I thought maybe he really, once he heard my um doubt in all of this maybe he got, maybe his heart was pricked, maybe he realized that 'oh my goodness I've been a part of something that's not good'... [part underlined makes me believe MG wasn't the one who told him]
MOO