I do understand why someone would want a lawyer if they were with somebody who disappeared, even if that someone was innocent. After all, it's not like innocent people haven't been wrongly convicted.
On the one hand it certainly is everyone's right to remain innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. At the same time, WE can be suspicious of a group of people who all run for Lawyers and the exits instead of cooperating to find someone whom they were all with the night that person vanished. Even more, the fact that so far ALL of these POI's are MALE and the missing person is a very small female.
I had some catching up to do on the last thread and saw some interesting ideas about LS moving around, say going to JR's, leaving and then going back. And then more on the idea that she never made it there in the first place.
Also JJenny you had mentioned some additional reasons why she could have been disposed of... for example dying after perhaps someone had sex with her(willingly or not, under the infulence of something or not, etc...)
That would be very hard to explain.
So, my mind is going... if something happened and she never made it out of the gravel lot, What could it be that would all cause all of these people to say otherwise? So far the only things I could come up with were some accident but they would cover up because of something in her system that would incriminate the others in various ways or the others believed it was an accident but didn't want to see one of the group go down for murder.
Another scenario came to mind in all of this...
What if... CR/LS exited the Alley Now Mystery Man is there (could he be DR? AA? Mystery Guest from Michigan? ) Perhaps as indicted by someone upthread CR walked ahead since he was close to his apt and LS became distracted in a conversation. Perhaps she said she was going to head back home... and he just said... whatever... and got there and crashed in bed. Then... as someone suggested... something else happens... perhaps she is out over on N. College at 3:38. There are ways to walk from the Gravel lot out to N. College without going back through the Alley, or to 11th Correct? I had hoped that btown would update that map to include the 3:38 Witness account... that witness would have had a direction she was moving and the direction she saw LS and MysteryMan moving... some arrows and dotted lines around the duration of the sighting could be useful. I really don't have a good sense of how long that encounter lasted... 10 seconds... 30 seconds... 3 minutes? AA was in the gravel lot/ Alley area at 3:00am Did he see Mystery Man? Did AA see anyone at all? So if something went wrong while Mystery Man (or for that matter someone else) was with LS, and they brought her to CR's for help (because maybe they knew CR and saw LS with him just previously... but MB answers the door and says CR is passed out... So then if JR is also there (doesn't have to be because he was involved earlier and that may have caused what happened) they could have made the pact on their simple stories. A twist on this is again that maybe this mystery man didn't bring her up, but left her out in the lot or in a vehicle and went to tell the others what happened. Now, it's been said that LE says they know the mystery man and he is not involved. To me this says they seem to know more about what happened than they are revealing. Another twist... what if CR/MB/JR did not know she was missing until the next day but realized they were all culpable for various reasons? For example, they knew she ingested something, and/or that she was with someone ELSE that they all know and need to cover for.
To suggest that the 3:38 witness has her time wrong... means that they know the mystery man was somewhere else around that time and have verified that. Maybe he even is LE!
My gut is telling me that something happened to her fairly quickly after passing through that Alley. (I wish I knew how far that cam can see outside of the Alley) Because of her purse being around there, there is the possibility of a brief struggle, a fall or her sudden unconsciousness. Since CR conveniently still has amnesia he may have witnessed this event or been part of it... yet... exactly how and why MB and JR would cover for him is a stretch. It had to be brief because just a few minutes later AA is picking up the purse, and as far as we know he didn't see or hear anything. That also tells me that CR and LS were moving swiftly and LS was still ok at that point. Still she should know if she dropped her small purse. To me, that seems like she was unconscious. I really want to know the Alley Cam range, and how close that purse was found outside of that cam range. Perhaps she hit the gravel with her feet and it hurt so she hopped on CR's back? Would they be playful like that? Then if her hands were around his neck or shoulders she couldn't hold her purse and it may have easily bounced right out of a pocket or if it were clipped on just popped right off. I'm really wondering if the cam caught a piece of that. Otherwise... the purse being there seems really suspicious then. it sat there maybe 10 to 12 minutes before AA picked it up. It's not clear how long AA was in the area.... but seems reasonable that he would have been arriving from a vehicle in the lot or coming from Morton or 11th, or perhaps he has friends in another apt too.
As such AA should have been in that lot a few minutes prior to finding the purse. So perhaps there was just a couple minutes between AA's arrival and when CR and LS passed by. I find it strange that he didn't see them because the timing was really close. If he didn't see CR and LS, then perhaps he saw someone else? And why would AA be off the hook?
If LS passed out and CR stumbled home it may have been the next day before they all heard about her missing... What if AA is involved in her disappearance, but these other guys cooked up their story initially because of their culpability (ie drugs, negligence, etc...) Any Chance that AA is the Mystery Man? I recall early on that he was called "A Dark Man" does AA match the description? I hadn't considered before that CR/MB/JR could be lying to protect each other but that they didn't know what happened to her... so far it's been assumed that at least JR may have known. But what if none of them saw her after the gravel lot and had no idea what happened to her? Why would AA put the purse on the rail if he were involved? AI'm wondering if he could see he was on camera at that point. So if he were to just take the purse it might look strange. I wonder if he went to LE when LS turned up missing OR... if he was caught on cam and LE went to him??