everybodhi
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Rosarita is not at all remote, it's busy with US tourists and one of the closest nice beach resort towns on Baja from the CA coast, just past Tijuana.I totally agree that she knew (unconsciously, perhaps, or consciously) that something was seriously amiss when her husband left the house with the kids and didn't give her any indication whatsoever where he was going, or for what purpose. It is not clear to me if she saw him leave with the kids, though I gather she did not. So she calls the police at 7 pm that first day, and says she’s not able to contact him, he has the kids, and she’s not worried about their safety (I wonder if she is asked by LE what her rationale is for calling, given that she basically says there’s no reason for concern…).
Then a full 24 hours pass, and she makes an official missing persons report, at which time the police suggest using Find My iPhone to locate him (it is truly unfortunate that she does not have that suggested to her earlier since that would have given LE the opportunity to alert Mexican LE to be on the lookout for the trio). The last known location was in Rosarito and was from 2:30 that afternoon, so either his phone was deliberately turned off or just ran out of battery. If he turned it off, it suggests, IMO, that he at least had the presence of mind to try to avoid being tracked. The children are murdered early in the morning on the third day, and MC’s phone is turned back on by 1 pm when it reports a new location right around the Mexico/US border outside of San Diego. So in the 7 or so hours between when the official missing persons report is made (7-8 pm) and when Coleman leaves the hotel with the children (3 am) there was nothing done to try to further pinpoint his location? I’m surprised that there was evidently not enough detailed info about his location (via Find My iPhone) to allow US law enforcement to identify the name and phone number of the establishment where he was staying in Rosarito—folks in my family use that feature all the time to keep tabs on the comings and goings of their teenage child who lives in a large metropolitan area in the US, and the location info provided has always been very detailed (down to the block of the street she is on)—but perhaps Rosarito is so rural that location accuracy is more limited there? Regardless of what she suspected or didn’t suspect, though, the children’s mother is certainly not to blame for her husband’s evil actions and I hope she has the support she needs to grapple with her awful losses.
https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/timeline-of-events-santa-barbara-man-accused-of-killing-his-kids-in-mexico/2692177/%3famp
It's only 10 miles from the border, less than an hour drive from San Diego.
Everything digital works well there, satellites have a direct view.