(snipped by me)
Catching up, and wanted to bite for the sake of argument. Let's assume LS did stumble out, and that the 5N's given timeline is some version of truth. Other than JW's alibi, is there any proof that she didn't meet up with JW - either by making it all the way to his place by walking (unlikely, but not impossible?) or by running in to him on the street?
Couldn't she have died, unexpectedly, with him? Her heart gives out, she ODs, he doesn't know why or what happened. If she accidentally died in his presence, how do you think he'd react? Let's say they meet up, argue, and she dies suddenly. Or - they meet up, do a line of coke, argue, and she dies suddenly. No direct fault of his, perhaps. Just accumulation of the night's overindulging, drama and bad decision making.
Does he take her to the hospital? Or does he freak out and try to hide the body?
It's rumored in Btown (completely unsubstantiated) that JW was also dabbling in coke dealing (and by dabbling in, I mean swimming.)
She dies, he freaks out. Hides body somewhere. Plants coke in her room, calls his father, reports her missing. Angry at not knowing what she took that night, hearing gossip of the fight - he and Dad confront CR, to deflect attention. Insert rumor about changing carpet in rental house here. They leave town. He goes to therapy. Mom makes awful statement about LS being a drug addict. All attention is on 5N.
All just speculation for argument's sake. Anyone want to start poking holes/giving thoughts?
Sure!
1. I still find it unlikely that no one would witness him out and about, whether he was driving or walking, when he was supposedly at home and/or sleeping. I also find it difficult to believe that no one would see LS wandering/staggering/etc. I know whatever happened, happened out of view, but IMO I just find it unlikely but obviously JMO!
2. I agree with imkeylime - if he was dealing, I find it unlikely he'd plant evidence or do anything to insinuate there was an OD. IMO, he would want to make an effort to hide/minimize that possibility, especially if there is any credence to it because he's already the BF. If he's the coke dealing BF I doubt he would start rumors that she OD'd on coke while he was supposedly sleeping at home. JMO.
3. Anything not involving him actually being the cause and knowing he is the cause of death, I am skeptical of. He knew she had a heart problem, she is rumored to have taken harder stuff earlier in the night, she had definitely been drinking, she was definitely intoxicated (degree is sometimes debated), she was hitting her head and had bruises forming on her face. IMO, in any situation where she dies suddenly or starts to OD, he is more likely to take her to the hospital than simply freak and hide the body.
Taking her to the hospital would actually benefit him in a couple ways:
-possibility of LS getting in trouble with her parents, if he felt wronged, and this is in line with what JW's mom said (rudely): he threatened to tell on her.
- he can blame CR/JR/etc. or whoever he thought had supplied the drugs and get them in trouble and certainly ensure that LS' parents knew about them
IMO, if he's the cause, he would have to have confronted her and physically harmed her himself in such a way that he thought he was the ultimate cause of death.
I do think that meeting up and doing coke together might result in him not calling, but if it is clear that she had already been doing stuff (without him), IMO, he would have called 911. I'm also not convinced that she would honestly be voluntarily doing harder stuff at that point in the night, but that is JMO based on her described state.