Re: JW filing a missing person's report on the afternoon of June 3
I really don't find it surprising or odd. He would have had a lot more to worry about than the missing phone by then.
First, if he didn't know about the altercation already at this point, there's no doubt that as soon as he started calling around looking for Lauren (after he heard from Kilroy's) that he would have found out. So he would know that when Lauren was last seen, she was so intoxicated she couldn't even walk, that the people who saw them at Smallwood described CR as acting aggressively and inappropriately, and when others told him she should be taken home, he got in a physical fight and then left with Lauren -- literally picking her up and carrying/dragging her down an alley toward his apartment, alone.
And that she hadn't been seen since.
What would you next? You would probably check to see if she was at home sleeping and then track down CR and find out if she was there. And it sounds like this is what happened. He got HT's key sometime shortly after picking up the phone (3ish). We don't know who talked to CR first or what he said, but we do know someone found him around the same time (Fri aft) -- Recall anon
from Smallwood,:
This wasn't just a random chat where CR casually mentioned Lauren being at his place -- People were looking for her. And I think there's a reason Anon included that part at the end -- he was skeptical. It makes me wonder if someone talked to CR first, and he said he couldn't remember anything, and then MB jumped in with the cover story. (MOO)
HT also said she talked to JR that day, obviously looking for Lauren as well:
http://web.archive.org/web/20110616122255/http://www.lohud.com/article/20110613/NEWS02/106130325
(BBM) Why is she stressing that he made it very clear that he was the last person to see Lauren and she believes him? My guess is that when JW, HT and others started looking for Lauren, they got the same kind of evasive, awkward and contradictory answers that we have all been analyzing here for months.
If you look back at the media reports from the first few days, there were a few more contradictory stories from neighbours that may have come from this day as well but it's hard to tell (The 'have you seen a little blond girl' and quote from a female neighbour about MB). And these are just what we know from the media -- who knows what other things they may have heard!
In any case, by 4 pm on Friday JW and others knew no one had spoken to Lauren and that the last people with her said she left their apartments 12 hours earlier. Plus they may have been telling stories that didn't add up. (HT says she believes JR, but that doesn't mean JW or anyone else did.)
I would have gone to the police too.
MOO.