I agree that JW should not be crossed off the list. I find some of his actions questionable since Lauren's disappearance, especially his refusal to take a polygraph. (but I know you don't care about that one!
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That said, there's not much to speculate about. If the most suspicious thing he has done is report Lauren missing TOO EARLY, when she really was legitimately missing, then well...
On the other hand, the POI at 5 N were the last to see Lauren, by their own accounts, and have told conflicting statements. Their stories do not make sense independently, or together. There's no way to reconcile what they themselves have told the media (via their lawyers) with any plausible scenario where they had nothing to hide. That's why the questions keep coming back to them.
My opinion only!
Well if we had solid evidence we wouldn't be expressing opinions.
What we have is a year and a half of analyzing every shred of information about this case and to paraphrase - it keeps coming back the liars at 5N.
Several share this opinion. Intuition is also telling me after looking these puzzle pieces day after day and from every possible angle, that Lauren was slipped something or ingested something that was far outside of normal for her. Whatever it was, for all practical purposes, I'm going to just call it a roofie. I am convinced that she was drugged. Now, sure, she might have smoked some weed and snorted something at JR's. But... after researching how long it takes for various suspected substances to work. I'm becoming convinced that what hit her hardest was given to her at Kilroys.
As it stands Bloomington does have a higher than average amount of Rohypnol or similarly classed substances showing up. There some stats that are interesting regarding Rohypnol and drugs found in use by similar users. 1) is that Rohypnol itself tends to come from Columbia via Mexico, so it follows Cocaine and/or Heroin distribution routes. 2) It tends to used much more so by men of about college age 3) being a "club" or "rave" type of drug it's also associated with users of ecstasy, Xanax, and hallucinogens
So, I'm curious if this intersects with our POI profiles? For example, is CR a known raver?
Very early on there were discussions about Xanax(as LS supposedly was boasting about it at Kilroys). And then quite a bit this past fall about klonopin, with that being attributed to DR. But these things remain unsubstantiated, right? So while certain drugs could produce the effects which LS was subjected to, it seems to me that nothing fits better than Rohypnol being slipped to her at Kilroys. It takes off within 15 minutes. With other substances in her system (including alcohol) the effects would have been intensified. It fits the behavior as good as anything can. Within 15 minutes her phone and shoes would not matter.
Again it really doesn't matter to me what it was. The scenario increasingly seems to me that there was something more than the usual "partying" at work here. And this became evident at Kilroys and went downhill from there. Since it originated at a public place that she had been at for something like 1 hr. I'm convinced that whatever it was that put her over the edge was given to her there. Rohypnol is detectable for 72 hrs in urine, and not sure how long in the blood etc... So, definitely a drug with a signature like that would be cause for a cover up.
Since the beginning there have been people who just couldn't buy the idea of hiding a body because of cocaine or more common substances. I tend to agree with that, barring evidence of sexual assault or physical trauma.
So, not only do I think she passed away at CR/MB's at around 3:30, I do think she was given something involuntarily, or lied to about what she was given. Rohypnol is several times more potent than Xanax.
It is tricky putting the pieces together between CR/MB and JR.
It is possible that JR felt he had to cover for CR/MB because MB called him at 3:30 and involved him. Further, he may have felt some culpability because he may have known she took something at his place earlier around 12:00 - 12:30.
In light of all of this, and then CR's known behavior, it certainly looks like CR was attempting to take advantage of the situation, whether or not he caused it. (but I'm thinking he caused it).