A few questions and thoughts after reading this entire thread:
* One possible reason for her clothing change if she wasn't hiding evidence: she might have wanted one "final outfit" to wear to the motel and she simply discarded the previous outfit along with her cellphone. It would be interesting to know whether the clothes she wore to the motel were her usual style. Were they something she'd wear on a day off from work or did they appear to be the first thing she'd come across in a store?
* She took the brochure from the water park into the motel with her while so many other items were missing. Was this something she was looking at as she died, maybe trying to focus on better times, or was it set aside somewhere else in the motel room?
* In post #459, Cubby asked about the blood found in the SUV. Timmothy's dad remembered the nosebleed that might have been responsible for this, but was Timmothy using his carseat at that time? Was any corresponding blood found on the carseat that had been stored at his grandma's?
A kid who is seated in a booster seat would be more likely to get blood on the car upholstery around the edges of the carseat base, while a kid in no seat at all would probably get blood directly on the car upholstery around his lap.
Assuming the blood came from the nosebleed as LE seems to think, a pattern that suggests Timmothy wasn't in his carseat at the time makes it less ominous that Amy never took the seat with her for the vacation. She might have been lax in using it. (And since Timmothy was older and 70 pounds, it doesn't sound like the mechanic who drove them to the zoo was outraged he had no booster seat.)
* Although her SUV was only seven years old, it wasn't a sure-fire thing it could have been fixed in just a few hours or even that very day, right? Sometimes unexpected problems come up and the vehicle has to be kept overnight while parts are shipped in. If she had planned the trip in advance, it seems like she took a risky bet on having the repair done after she'd picked Timmothy up from school, not knowing for certain it would be fixable that same day.
* While a video shows Timmothy playing with his new toy truck in the lobby of one of the places they stayed, were any of those tiny craft beads or parts of that customizable vehicle playset found in the SUV? Any of the packaging? I just wonder if it means anything whether or not he was able to play with the toys in the SUV.
* If Amy bought a big jug of milk as opposed to a single-serve carton, did it look like a six-year-old had had a chance to drink any of it? It would have been too heavy and unwieldy for him to manage, unless she bought cups or the motel supplied some.
* One possible reason for her clothing change if she wasn't hiding evidence: she might have wanted one "final outfit" to wear to the motel and she simply discarded the previous outfit along with her cellphone. It would be interesting to know whether the clothes she wore to the motel were her usual style. Were they something she'd wear on a day off from work or did they appear to be the first thing she'd come across in a store?
* She took the brochure from the water park into the motel with her while so many other items were missing. Was this something she was looking at as she died, maybe trying to focus on better times, or was it set aside somewhere else in the motel room?
* In post #459, Cubby asked about the blood found in the SUV. Timmothy's dad remembered the nosebleed that might have been responsible for this, but was Timmothy using his carseat at that time? Was any corresponding blood found on the carseat that had been stored at his grandma's?
A kid who is seated in a booster seat would be more likely to get blood on the car upholstery around the edges of the carseat base, while a kid in no seat at all would probably get blood directly on the car upholstery around his lap.
Assuming the blood came from the nosebleed as LE seems to think, a pattern that suggests Timmothy wasn't in his carseat at the time makes it less ominous that Amy never took the seat with her for the vacation. She might have been lax in using it. (And since Timmothy was older and 70 pounds, it doesn't sound like the mechanic who drove them to the zoo was outraged he had no booster seat.)
* Although her SUV was only seven years old, it wasn't a sure-fire thing it could have been fixed in just a few hours or even that very day, right? Sometimes unexpected problems come up and the vehicle has to be kept overnight while parts are shipped in. If she had planned the trip in advance, it seems like she took a risky bet on having the repair done after she'd picked Timmothy up from school, not knowing for certain it would be fixable that same day.
* While a video shows Timmothy playing with his new toy truck in the lobby of one of the places they stayed, were any of those tiny craft beads or parts of that customizable vehicle playset found in the SUV? Any of the packaging? I just wonder if it means anything whether or not he was able to play with the toys in the SUV.
* If Amy bought a big jug of milk as opposed to a single-serve carton, did it look like a six-year-old had had a chance to drink any of it? It would have been too heavy and unwieldy for him to manage, unless she bought cups or the motel supplied some.