Regarding the timeline, I was half listening to the documentary when the tape recording of the adoptive father Dennis came on (Ep 1). I thought he said that he brought Alexis to school in the morning. HIs wife was working "second shift". He picked up Alexis after school and brought her home. He took his wife to work. He came home. Alexis was gone. He phoned police right away.
When Dennis and Alexis returned home from school, his wife told Alexis to do her homework. There's something about Alexis needing more supervision to do her homework - but it was Friday night, she was going bowling. Sunday afternoon is homework. Why was homework so important on Friday after school, when they needed her to watch the baby while Dennis drove his wife to work?
To give Alexis time to do her homework, they took the baby with them when he drove his wife to work on Friday evening. Then he brought the baby home. We heard from several of Alexis' friends that she looked after the baby. She gave her a bottle, changed her, put her to bed, and didn't want to leave her alone in that house. Suddenly, the adoptive parents are taking the baby along to drop of his wife at work - when it's easier to leave the baby at home with Alexis.
Dennis said he called the police right away when he got home and saw signs that Alexis had stolen money and run away. I posted a timeline upthread and I think he phoned police a day later, on Saturday.
His wife worked "second shift" on Friday. What time did that start? Alexis finished school at 3:30. It must have been 4:30 or 5:00 p.m. Eight hour shift? She finished at midnight? Alexis was missing that entire time? Did the adoptive parents cook up the story together on Saturday morning that Alexis stole money and ran away, and then phone police to report the theft? When the $100.00 theft didn't qualify for larceny, Dennis' wife later claimed it was $150.00? That marked Alexis for larceny arrest.
What happened after Alexis returned home from school on Friday, and Dennis Bowman taking his wife to work? Was that less than 2 hours? Something about homework? It makes sense that Alexis was incapacitated before this wife's shift started, and Dennis had 8 hours to hide the evidence. That could only happen if his wife knew what was happening ... since Alexis was there before her husband drove her to work (how did she seem at work that evening?), and gone when he arrived at home. How long does the roundtrip take? I think that's too fast for a teenager to decide to run away allegedly on drugs, pregnant with dyed hair and hanging around truck stops. That's quite the image that Alexis' adoptive mother painted, along with larceny when she was "close" and buried in the backyard. That's an assault on her reputation long after she was murdered at home, not unlike cutting her in half twice.
Why did Dennis and his wife bring the baby on Friday night to drop off his wife at work, at the same time that Alexis was going to be murdered and dismembered? Was that because there was no one to look after the baby at home? Why not? It certainly wasn't because of homework.
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