Spent the last four hours catching up on the board's activity on this case. Whew, you all move fast!
I am troubled by what's been speculated about LS perhaps being on her way to JW's (who is not a Smallwood res.) after being at JR's. It's not unusual for college girls to end up at their boyfriends' (or ex-boyfriends', for a bootycall or whatever) after a night of drinking, but were that the case, why would she have called DR 15 minutes before she leaves, who
is a resident of Smallwood? To me that sprouts a number of scenarios:
One is that LS was truly on the outs with JW, in which case she wouldn't have been heading out to see him. She is more likely to have been caught on camera because then she'd be heading home. She could have called DR over her roommates if she knew he was likely to be awake at that time over her friends. In school, I try to sleep before four, and many of my roommates would be asleep and/or impossible to wake up through a call. In contrast, there were a few people in my building whom I could rely on to be awake at that time for whatever reason to at least let me inside.
Once inside the building, though, she'd need her key to get inside her actual apartment/room. If she knew she lost her keycard, she'd probably know that she'd lost her key, because she was wearing leggings, and so most likely the keycard was inside the pouch with the "gold key" on it that AA found, assuming that physical key is the method used to gain access into each individual's residence and not the electronic keycard. She'd still have to call her roommates to get inside the room. It's possible she didn't remember their #s and would use DR's phone from there, but JR knew HT well, so she'd at least be on the contacts. Overall, this scenario has a bit of merit, but not much.
Some have speculated that she called to see if DR knew where she'd left her phone. Doubt she'd call him for that, since this article
http://www.indystar.com/article/201.../Interviews-Spierer-s-friends-family-continue indicates that DR and LS headed over to JR's after 12:30, and only after this initial meeting to "watch the game" :innocent: did CR come by and convince LS to go to Kilroy's. If LS came back to JR's after depositing CR home, DR may or may not have been there, but regardless, she would have searched JR's apartment for her phone and not found it. The only way DR would have known about the phone being missing is if he followed CR and LS to Kilroy's later but wasn't kicked out. To me, DR having knowledge of her missing phone would indicate he was there at the bar and would mean he's on my suspect's list. This is much less likely than the first reason for her to call DR from JR's phone.
This makes me suspect JR is the one who placed the call to DR instead of LS.
Another less likely scenario is that she wanted to visit JW to have a temporary truce (not a bootycall, since then she'd head over w/o calling DR) due to the altercation between JW's friends and CR and wanted to have a neutral, non-APES-related party to be there with her. JR wouldn't have been privy to LS's plans because he's a frat brother/friend to JW, so she might just say she's heading home to avoid more conflict. For this scenario to be plausible, DR would have to be unaffiliated with JR and the APES, and LS would have to feel uncomfortable enough to want to have a buddy to see her home safely/neutral party to discuss the issues, but not feel so overly threatened as to want to avoid seeing JW altogether. If DR didn't answer, then, she might have just decided to see JW herself, thinking that if she didn't deal with the problem immediately, she would just make things worse. JR would then see LS leave, assuming she's going home, but she'd continue where he couldn't see her, in a direction away from the highly concentrated area of security cameras. This scenario would either mean JW is the perp or could give an unknown assailant a much longer window in which to abduct her.
Thus, I think it's more likely that either LS never made it out of JR's, or somehow she made it just out of JR's view and was abducted just a few yards from her place.
Finally, I'd like to take a few minutes to beg you local posters to be careful while sleuthing! I'm really starting to get nervous with some of your posts indicating that you've been reported/have been stared at by strangers/walking around at night.