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You've got a point. Alcohol and/or drugs would contribute to distorted judgment and irrational behavior. But then would they have been able to dispose of evidence and concoct a solid plan to avoid detection so quickly and efficiently? With all of those cameras everywhere? Anything's possible, but Lauren was reported missing the next afternoon. The POI's came under scrutiny almost immediately. If there are conspirators in this case, they had very little time to pull it together. Are they capable of doing that? It's hard to say because we know so little about them.
Then there's the argument that if JR is involved, why would he make himself the last person to see Lauren, when as far as we know, no one has mentioned seeing him with Lauren after she left CR's, or seeing Lauren go into his apartment. It just doesn't add up to a conspiracy for me. But if it is, then I wish to heavens one of them would be decent enough to take mercy on her parents and reveal her whereabouts. One solid tip submitted anonymously is all it takes.
Seems to me the main reason to hide a body this well is to destroy evidence.
Seems to me there are at least 3 possible conspiracies floating here:
1) CR/MB/JR and others who were present at CR's
This one seems to have too many people and therefore seems unlikely, it's still possible however.
2) JR/JW
This one seems far fetched to me, but also possible. It would involve few people making it easier to keep a tighter lid.
3) JR/Unkown persons
This one could take on a lot of permutations. For example, JR could be taking the heat claiming he was with her to deflect attention from someone else and/or to keep the investigation stymied.
If it wasn't planned, but was an accident of some sort and yet there was a quick clean up, it's not out of the range of possibility depending on what any of these people may have been had going on otherwise. For example, if even one of these people was connected to serious drug world figures or ran even a small crime operation they could know someone to trust for a clean-up.
Ask anyone some people on WS if they needed to find Pot, how long it would take them. Then Cocaine or prescription drugs, see how long that would take. I'll bet most people could find these things within an hour if they went looking. It's so pervasive that most people would know someone they think might be able to connect them. If you know for a fact people who "use" then you know you could get it fast. Now consider, where does that stuff come from? It's not little old ladies baking cookies who run drug distribution. And people involved in using sometimes are profoundly dangerous or connected themselves. There are 2 Million people in Prison in the USA = they all have people and families who are not in prison, and those people have friends too. That's a lot of people. Then there are those who never get caught, or ones who get caught for minor things and get away with big things, or just get caught and get out of them because they have the money to do so. The person you may know that does Coke is maybe just 1 or 2 degrees of separation away from organized crime of some sort.
So while it doesn't seem likely, such a conspiracy and efficiency is possible. So far the peculiar circumstances, evidence and odd behaviors do not rule it out... right?
