thesaint
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One thing LE could do (may have done) to try to lock down the timeline/DS's path almost 3 weeks ago:
1. get access to her bank card statement(s).
2. find out from the above when she last fueled up her jeep.
3. based on the number of gallons purchased at that time and
4. the date of DS's last fuel up
5. guesstimate how much fuel DS's jeep should have had left in it when they found it parked
at her apt complex on that Friday.
6. check the actual fuel level in DS's jeep tank on that friday (which should still be the same today, assuming they flat-bedded it to somewhere for forensics purposes).
7. see if there's an obvious discrepancy based on the estimate vs the actual fuel remaining.
e.g.,
Say DS fueled up Wednesday after work. And she could well have done so at one of the stations on the corner by IG. The line item on the bank statement would have the actual address of the gas station.
DS, say, tops up her jeep on Wednesday after work. Assume she doesn't drive anywhere else Wed night (big assumption, can attempt to verify DS's ancillary to work commuting driving by talking to friends/family/co-workers/her social media posts/etc).
So she drives 12 miles to work Thursday am and 12 miles back home Thursday night. 12 + 12 again Friday--that's about 2 gallons.
Maybe even if they are unable to verify that DS drove elsewhere Wed evening (or whatever evenings passed since she fueled up), deduct another gallon or two for grocery store run or Tim Horton's or if she goes out for lunch.
That way, if you expect that she should have 2/3rds a tank left and her jeep's fuel-level when they found it was down below half or lower....might indicate that DS (or someone else) drove her jeep somewhere between 5 pm Friday the 2nd and 6 pm Saturday the 3rd.
Lotta variables involved. but it seems like DS had some routine to her life and that if she did do things after work they might've involved driving to meet friends/family (or at least talking to them about her plans after work, maybe even co-workers could help here)--who could then give estimates of additional mileage.
the best scenario (in terms of coming up with a better guess as to when DS's jeep was back at her apt) would be that DS fueled up Friday at lunch. Maybe she even got a car wash. And that her fuel tank was almost still full....in that scenario, it becomes more likely that she simply drove directly home after work.
Possible she pays/paid cash (in which case, there'd be no line-item for a gas-station fill up on her bank statement)
Also possible that if someone did indeed drive her jeep, and maybe drove DS in it a considerable distance, and return it to her apt, they had to fuel up. Seems like a risky move, but....anything's possible in this case.
1. get access to her bank card statement(s).
2. find out from the above when she last fueled up her jeep.
3. based on the number of gallons purchased at that time and
4. the date of DS's last fuel up
5. guesstimate how much fuel DS's jeep should have had left in it when they found it parked
at her apt complex on that Friday.
6. check the actual fuel level in DS's jeep tank on that friday (which should still be the same today, assuming they flat-bedded it to somewhere for forensics purposes).
7. see if there's an obvious discrepancy based on the estimate vs the actual fuel remaining.
e.g.,
Say DS fueled up Wednesday after work. And she could well have done so at one of the stations on the corner by IG. The line item on the bank statement would have the actual address of the gas station.
DS, say, tops up her jeep on Wednesday after work. Assume she doesn't drive anywhere else Wed night (big assumption, can attempt to verify DS's ancillary to work commuting driving by talking to friends/family/co-workers/her social media posts/etc).
So she drives 12 miles to work Thursday am and 12 miles back home Thursday night. 12 + 12 again Friday--that's about 2 gallons.
Maybe even if they are unable to verify that DS drove elsewhere Wed evening (or whatever evenings passed since she fueled up), deduct another gallon or two for grocery store run or Tim Horton's or if she goes out for lunch.
That way, if you expect that she should have 2/3rds a tank left and her jeep's fuel-level when they found it was down below half or lower....might indicate that DS (or someone else) drove her jeep somewhere between 5 pm Friday the 2nd and 6 pm Saturday the 3rd.
Lotta variables involved. but it seems like DS had some routine to her life and that if she did do things after work they might've involved driving to meet friends/family (or at least talking to them about her plans after work, maybe even co-workers could help here)--who could then give estimates of additional mileage.
the best scenario (in terms of coming up with a better guess as to when DS's jeep was back at her apt) would be that DS fueled up Friday at lunch. Maybe she even got a car wash. And that her fuel tank was almost still full....in that scenario, it becomes more likely that she simply drove directly home after work.
Possible she pays/paid cash (in which case, there'd be no line-item for a gas-station fill up on her bank statement)
Also possible that if someone did indeed drive her jeep, and maybe drove DS in it a considerable distance, and return it to her apt, they had to fuel up. Seems like a risky move, but....anything's possible in this case.
