She woke up the niece at 4:30 am frantic and outta control. As I suspected KR was too agitated to just wait until someone discovered John’s body. She even said to the niece “maybe I hit him, did I hit him?”
It makes absolutely no sense if she supposedly dropped him off, he walked towards the house and she left, and if she supposedly woke up and was worried simply because he wasn’t home.
Waking up frantic, waking up the children, wondering out loud if you hit him…..if this isn’t a confession to murder I don’t know what is. She completely abandons the children after she kills John, which proves she never cared for those kids. She never had a bond with them. Who abandons grieving children after their guardian is supposedly beaten by his friends and left to freeze to death? Especially THESE children who have already suffered unimaginable loss and grief? Who does that? Someone who isn’t sorry John is dead and can’t even pretend to grieve. That’s who.
JMO
Correct me if I'm wrong, but within four days of JOK's death, KR was ordered to avoid anyone in his family. Also, she was accused of killing him. If I was (falsely) accused of killing someone, I would go into self-preservation mode, personally, especially if the local cops are in cahoots with the Albert residence, etc, and closing ranks against me, getting the O'Keefes on side with them as well. At the of the day, she was an outsider in more ways than one, as it has been demonstrated.
Just to be factual, she didn't say "to the niece "maybe I hit him, did I hit him?"" The niece testified that she overheard KR saying that to Kerry.
Also, perhaps KR had a strong premonition (mixed with her inebriated state) that something had happened to John when she woke up that morning. And maybe she immediately felt an intuitive sense of responsibility for dropping him off and her mind went to their last interaction. It wouldn't be out of the realm of possibility, which is why a wide swath of people don't find it impossible.
That being said, it also is possible that she hit him, left the scene, and then began to "create a narrative" which involved bread-crumbing "not realising that she accidentally killed him until she woke up the next morning," backing her car into his, getting Kerry and JM to watch her "discover" JOK's body, etc. That being said, there hasn't been any indication that she knowingly hit him and left him for dead. In fact, the logistics of where he was found, his injuries, and the suspicious manner the broken taillight "evidence" was collected, suggest that she didn't hit him, and the answers can be found in the Albert household and on all those now destroyed/rehomed mobiles.
Personally, I change my mobile once every 3 - 4 years (or if I can stretch it longer). Because, $$$.