One thing I've been pondering since JR returned to IU-Bloomington-5 North to resume being neighbors with CR and MB is...why?
Possible scenarios:
1. JR may have provided party favors for LS and been negligent in not walking her home, but he's not guilty of her actual disappearance. (tho I think there's an argument that he'd not want to return to the scrutiny of B-town even under this scenario, not the least of which is potential civil liability). (i give this about a 10% probability)
2. JR's the only person who knows what happened with LS and is thus hubristically confident that he and he alone controls his fate. (maybe a 30% probability)
3. CR and MB (and perhaps others, but esp JR's 5 North neighbors CR and MB) as well as JR know/were involved in LS's disappearance and JR's back to keep those potential loose ends in line. He's living next door to them. A recent news report noted that JR was on his way over to their place with a beer when they approached his townhome. (maybe a 60% probability now).
4. ??? Any other iterations?
The reason I rank them as I do is b/c JR has from the get-go been getting top-shelf legal advice. And any defense lawyer worth his P# is going to tell a client in JR's situation that there are 2 rules:
1. You (JR) tell me everything. No surprises. I get surprised by something you didn't tell me, I drop you as a client.
2. You do exactly what I say, when I say, how I say and you might get out of this.
1. JR's relatively "innocent". Tough call here, but the lawyer would likely suggest that not being in B-town would be the preferred course of action---unless JR felt like going all out and granting LE and others extensive interviews and participating in the search for LS.
Otherwise, the situation's a tinderbox and JR could be a flashpoint for angry friends, etc of LS. This is more about JR's personal safety than say legal implications, tho civil liability lurks in the background.
2. JR's the only person culpable/who knows what happened. This was my preferred theory previously. But once you factor in JR's return to the "scene of the crime", so to speak, it becomes difficult to support. If only for this reason:
If a perp walks into a defense lawyer's office and seeks counsel for involvement in this sort of situation, AND they make it clear they (JR) are the only person who knows what happened, that defense lawyer, after he gets done dancing around his desk, separates the ONLY person who can impeach his client from the milieu of the scene of the crime as much as possible. Esp with the ready-made excuse for not returning to B-town that #1 provides.
Can't see a defense lawyer letting a guilty but solely knowledgeable about the situation JR return to Bloomington/IU/5 North like this. Way too much risk. Send him to a new school. Take a year off (upset over LS's disappearance etc). Spend a year overseas.
But do not go back into the party environment that caused the situation in the first place.
Which leaves #3 as the most probable reason for JR's return.