Just checking in after a HOT day of work.
A few responses to various things mentioned:
1. How badly he was bleeding: He wasn't bleeding badly enough to go directly to a hospital. Were he have been "bleeding out," then he would have dumped Mickey and the bike somewhere temporarily and been in the E.R. within an hour. We need to remember that he visited Oschner Hospital in New Orleans about 18 hours or so after Mickey disappeared. No footage of his truck had been aired. Mickey had just been reported missing. For all he knew, he was going to get away clean, aside from his wounds. This begs the question of why New Orleans? I prefer one of two possibilities -
A. He headed to New Orleans directly afterward, and so was already there, and so Ochsner was a logical place to go if he needed medical attention. Again - his wounds were superficial enough that he waited 18 hours for treatment.
B. He went home first, but had unexpected wounds that now he had to explain. Thinking quickly to himself, how could he have gotten cut up? New Orleans, with its violence, is a perfect excuse. Indeed, he told the hairdresser he was cut on Bourbon Street. Traveling to New Orleans to get the wounds treated (and then to later figure out a story of why he was there) set up a good alibi to friends and family and - had there been no surveilance footage - also the police. Down here, NOLA is known to be a good place to get attacked. Would have seemed an easy, convenient leap of logic for a man thinking in a hurry.
All that said, what is to say that he didn't have a live Mickey and the bike somewhere within an hour or two of New Orleans, and she was alive until 2-4 hours before he showed up at Ochsner, and he did indeed go to the hospital not too long after the attack?
2. It's dangerous to drive up in a rural area and start questioning a stranger on his property. I'm glad that OceanMetTheSky used common sense and didn't drive up to question the man working on the cars. That would have been kind of unwise.
3. I am sure that BSL's neighbor saw buzzards. Buzzards are easily identifiable to rural residents who see them all the time, with their characteristic circling pattern.
4. It's hard to think that BSL worked at Artmosphere and is now charged with murder and no one from Artmosphere has revealed his employment there.
5. Photos here should be sized at 640 pixels wide, so as not to blow the margins. Please do post!
6. It is pure speculation to say that BSL stole some pressure washers. There is nothing to back that up. However, it is interesting that, if IIRC, the taillights of a truck at the robbed business were stolen. It would be interesting to know if they matched the taillights on the burned truck, and whether they were different than the lights on the new truck BSL bought. This info may be way back in the threads around June 5 or 6 or so. It's not beyond belief that if BSL were trying to make his old truck look like the new one to fool neighbors and family, that he could have been involved with the fire at the business where the pressure washers and the truck parts were stolen. Police already know this, as they have his new truck, and can cross-check it with the truck at the business.
What militates against this thinking for me is that it's a big coincidence that this business would contain both a truck with the parts he wanted and pressure washers. He would have to have located a place to rob and burn that had both items he needed, and this is a stretch for me. I don't think the fire/thefts at that business are related, though I suppose there's always a slim chance.
