[BBM] More from the same article:
"They were on the water for a couple of hours when Jessica reportedly got out of the boat and made her way toward the north river bank in the direction of State Highway 30, Baggett told the sheriff’s office. Her purse and car keys were left behind, he confirmed. Sheriff Edwards told Dateline that Jessica’s cell phone was later turned in by an individual who stated that he had it because Jessica and Baggett had planned to call him on it to be picked up at the end of their boating trip that day."
the whole "left her phone with an individual so they can call him to pick them up" is hinky enough for me.
If you rent a boat, you get the company's number and call them..if it is individual, you get that person's number to call to pick you up. Plus... pick up from where?? do they not return the rental to where they picked up?? that is always how we have done it.
I'm sorry, but this whole story sounds made up to me. IMO
Unless the "boat" company can verify that is how they run things, I just dont believe it.
I have rented a canoe before and the company/person knows where we end at so he can account for our rentals. We dont call him and we dont give him our cell phones. Maybe things are done differently there, IDK--just does not sound right to me
They were on the water for "a couple of hours" (after putting the boat in at daybreak, or shortly thereafter, from previous accounts), when she bailed out of the boat -- minus her purse and car keys -- according to the boyfriend. Then, he reported her missing at 10:15 p.m. that night. What did he do from, say, 9:00 A.M. until he reported her missing -- that's over 13 hours later?