So maybe they haven't been honest with their lawyers?
Unless it happened more or less the way the POIs describe except that LS fled 5 North in a compromised condition because of something that happened there and then met a worse fate. But that would mean that she had a worst possible luck ever.
I'm trying to reconcile something like that with JR's story ... say somebody hit on her and then let her stumble away when she wouldn't cooperate ... and sent someone after her who found her deceased?
I hope we someday know.
No one needed to hit her on the head, she clearly had been hitting her own head and very hard. There is no proof that she ever got up after that last fall. If CR was capable of carrying her within a few minutes before that happened... then he would have been capable of carrying her after that happened. There is no doubt in my mind that after she fell face down without blocking her fall that CR attempted to pick her up again and carry her - to where is the question! This fall and the attempt of someone to carry her, would easily explain her wallet and keys being left at the scene. If CR picks her up and her wallet and keys fall, he may not have noticed or was perhaps very difficult to do so after picking her up.
Since the account from MB is that LS was there but CR was the one puking and needing to be put to bed, to me this is one of the single biggest conflicts. I can see CR stumbling in with LS sometime after 3:00... based on how fast they were moving previously and with LS on his back, I would expect this to have taken 5 to 10 minutes depending on his need to stop and rest or if she slid off and sustained further injuries it may have continued to devolve. It just can not be as MB and his Lawyer have said, as we know the several facts that led up to her supposed arrival and her condition was extremely bad. MB and Lawyer have painted a picture that is totally opposite of that reality. So, why mislead like this? There must be something that went on here. By 3:30 MB was calling JR. We are talking relatively short intervals of time here. Now you have JR admitting that he saw her black eye forming, which means he knew that she was suffering from injuries. It's not been said that he questioned her about how she sustained the injuries. So, this leads me to think, that someone else had explained to him how she sustained the injuries. Who would not ask, what happened? It is not believable to me that LS was face down comatose in the Alley a couple minutes before 3:00 and then perfectly normal, wanting to party, assisting putting someone else to bed, with no signs of trauma within a few minutes later. Even with the known tendency of high doses of Clonopin to cause people to rotate between coma and alertness, her recorded alertness just prior to that fall is not in any way consistent with MB's description. The idea that her condition suddenly and radically improved within minutes is not something I can swallow. Then you have the inconsistency as she supposedly is pawned off on JR. JR describes something more believable, but still unbelievable. He admits to seeing her injuries (MB is blind?) and describes SOME aspect of her state. But his own description is contradictory. Not enough time passed for her to recover from the state she was in combined with the injuries that even he observed at least superficially. We are talking about minutes here. Sure, I can see other types of tragic possibilities here, like her falling down stairs, drowning on her own vomit, slamming her head yet one more time on a very hard surface. Some guest in JR's taking her to a guest room, trying to have sex with her and her heart just stops beating. Regardless of what went wrong... it happened in a short time interval and there is a body. A body that goes missing. And sure, that body may never be found. But there is definitely something wrong with these inconsistent characterizations of LS from what was know of her condition just prior to this. You see MB didn't say that CR carried LS in, that LS was puking, and that LS was unconscious. That would be consistent. But if MB told that story, where would it go next?
I can see CR and MB trying to revive her. MB freaking out. And eventually JR gets a call. Is she already dead at this point? I think so. So, why call JR? There of course are a bunch of theories on why JR would shift attention to himself. His ties to LS. Because of drugs, partying and whatever other dimensions of human nature, these people were all feeling culpable as a group in LS's demise. So, to me it's not believable that LS got up and walked out of 5N, barefoot with keycard in hand at about 4:20am.
I'm very inclined to think that the situation had been contained, story agreed, and body removed by that time. Roughly 1 hr from when CR would have dragged her in, unless of course he dragged her somewhere else and then made it back to conference with the others. I do think CR dragged her back to his apt however. Initially, I had thought he might have not been able to do so. The revelations by PI's this June changed that picture for me.
CR was capable of carrying her. Yet, I do wonder if MB actually saw her and interacted with her. I could see CR dragging her in and going to his room and bathroom... and MB at first not thinking much of it. But then problems arise and all MB can think of doing is to call JR. I get the feeling that MB felt stuck in the middle and not wanting to be there.
And so there are loose ends in this picture, some important ones. From the begining it was said that others were present at CR/MB's when JR was called over. I really don't think JR would get called over at 3:30 am because LS was alert, perky and wanting to party. She could just have easily walked next door and knocked on his door. JR was called because something was up, something was messed up. JR had guests. So there are other POI's that should have witnessed some of what was going on here. Was there a mystery person in this group that the known POI's have made invisible? I think so. I think there were at least 2 other people there with JR, one has not been named publicly, and the other is invisible. The invisible X, I think with the very likely assistance of CR, removed LS from the scene immediately. So these people were / are linked in various ways, and whether or not there was a person X. Then you have JR calling DR and another mystery Person Y (who possibly is Person X) at 4:15 which was the probable end point for the evening. Not knowing the pieces that LE has, what I would be looking for is any video evidence of vehicles leaving the immediate area between 3:00am and 4:30 am, possibly later. To get LS out of the building and into a vehicle would only have taken a couple minutes. Perhaps even right outside of 5N on 11th, as JR watched from his 2 ft. Balcony. Really lean towards this Person X involvement because if the others were missing or spotted elsewhere at those early morning hours it would blow their stories. For example if JR was seen in CR's car at 4:30 am driving past a gas station. Person X, whether local or from out of town, could just go anywhere with LS, allowing the others to seal their stories.
Everyone is linked to JR. JR is the hub. And so be there a person X, they are connected to JR. LE would have a lot of ways to narrow down who such a person might be.
Since I think it went down this way, had to consider just what crime could be proven here, even if you knew who Person X was. Seems like it would be hard to prove murder, even 3rd degree. The situation points to an accidental death and cover up. Even if you could prove that Person X agreed to dispose of LS because the group panicked, what would be the sentence for such an act? Can't imagine someone spending more than 2 years locked up for that. Without a body or other hard evidence that would lead to concrete proof of foul play can you see any more substantial penalties than 2 years?
