Hello all...I was trying to keep up with these threads as a background observer for a few weeks and just got totally overwhelmed with the volume of posts and at times the speed at which they moved. And while I have read a few of the threads cover to cover -- so to speak -- there is a great deal that I missed -- especially from the beginning. I do however have a pretty good idea of what's been going on and must say that I am very impressed with the theories in many of the posts that I've read and the high degree of sleuthing ability that many of you possess and so let me just say keep up the good work and my hat's off to you! Personally -- and especially being a newbie and one who's time online here will unfortunately be more limited than many of you -- I'm going to try and just jump in from time to time when I have something to add that I think may be of some use. I have had some thoughts along the way that I probably should have noted when I thought of them but I wasn't even registered at the time and so I will try and post them from now on when I think of them.
A couple of thoughts that I had, and since -- as I said above -- seeing that there are a lot of threads that I never got to go through, forgive me if things have already been touched on but, since well before the bond hearing occurred I had a working theory that TM had secreted her enraged self in the back seat/ floorboard area of the truck that SM drove up in to meet HRE at PTL and that this poor unsuspecting young lady saw SM and got in and closed the door and then the trap was sprung.
Part of why I have felt this way was that I do believe -- as I've seen posted in previous threads -- that TM was at the very least, a fan of the Nancy Grace show and -- I believe --she may have had an interest in other true crime shows as well. If not in the past then maybe at least in recent times as I do feel that she had been -- if not stone cold premeditating killing her cheating husbands love interest since finding out about the affair around Halloween, then at the very least she was fantasizing about it as a way to channel her rage. The reason I mention this is that, if you recall the relatively recent case of yet another Craigslist killing -- this time in Pennsylvania -- broke in the news right around Dec. 7th I believe, which would have been about ten or so days prior to HRE tragic encounter with the "MRS". And in that case it was widely reported -- on and around that date -- that the husband had hidden under a blanket in the back seat, unbeknownst to the man who believed he had gotten into the vehicle with just the wife in the front seat, and he had at some prearranged point popped up and wrapped a cord around this man's neck as his lovely wife preceded to stab him to death. They then disposed of the body, cleaned the vehicle and went to dinner like nothing happened. Truly disturbing.
And so, even if the motives in these two crimes are disparate, let's disregard that and what if, at the very least, that was the most recent premeditation or fantasy that was bouncing off the walls inside TMs disturbed mind on that fateful evening and instead of the husband hiding under a blanket in the back seat, it was the wife. And given the frightening size difference between HRE and TM and -- not to mention -- the extra adrenaline boost from all the pent up rage and the element of surprise of being set on from your blind side and in a darkened confined space, it brings a chill to me thinking how quickly and completely TM had full control of her intended victim.
I truly feel that something very close to this is how it went down. I am still wrestling with SMs exact level of involvement, and by that what I mean is, while I have no doubt that LE was correct in charging them both the same in this heinous crime, I'm just trying to figure out how exactly, and when exactly, did TM get him to damn what might have been left of his soul and be an accomplice to kidnapping and murdering someone that he has professed to care greatly about. I know that there are several working theories about why SM made the initial contact that night with HRE and what his motives were ie: was he part of a premeditated plot to lure and kill HRE from that early point with his disturbed wife who somehow forced him through threats and/ or coercion? Or did it just start out as something, at least on his part, with no malicious motive that just snowballed out of control when the "MRS" got wind of his attempt at yet another covert liaison with HRE. I am tending to lean toward the latter.
But what was it that precipitated him to need to see HRE that night? Could it be that he really had been missing her and there was nothing like a cross country trip in a car for days on end with TM to make him realize that and why -- in no uncertain terms -- he had chosen to get involved with HRE in the first place? I think that there are many of you -- myself included -- who, from what we know about TM, could certainly see how this might be the case. And did he maybe somehow through the grapevine -- because all us living here in MB know how it's really just a small town at the heart of it and it's hard for anything to remain a secret for very long-- get wind that she was starting to go on dates and he felt the urgency even more to at least try and see her one more time? I could see that, especially since it sounds like things ended rather abruptly when the affair was laid bare. He was known to work late, so what if he was out that night already under the guise of "taking care of business"? Ah but, there's that whole thing about him claiming that he cut a deal to allow TM to accompany him to work before chaining him to the bed at night right? Well I just don't know that that's anything more than an attempt at creating an alibi of some kind for himself and, while I don't put it past TM to set such bizarre demands, I am going to set that one aside for now as I'm not sure that it passes the sniff test with me. But even if it was the case, maybe he got paroled early for good behavior after the Cali trip or maybe, just maybe, he told TM that night that he needed time prior to -- or after -- work to be by himself to do a little Christmas shopping. That would certainly tug at the right "family" heartstrings to maybe get her to back off him for one night, and after all there weren't that many more shopping days left by the 17th of December. And just imagine how incensed TM would have been if she found out later that night that she had been lied to about that, or worse, that maybe SM had done some Christmas shopping, but it wasn't for her and the kids.
And that is something that I have thought about for a while, and for all I know it's already been discussed but I never did read it in any of the threads that I've had the time to go through, and that is this. What if part of SMs reason to see HRE that night and/or part of what he used to try and get her to meet up with him that night was that he had gotten her a special Christmas present that he wanted to give her in person and that given that the holiday was almost here and how closely TM watched him this was his last best chance to meet up with her and give it to her before the holiday arrived? I really think that this along with the thing about him either wanting to, or actually, leaving his wife along with telling her things like how he felt bad about how things had ended so abruptly, and that he had been thinking about her, blah, blah, blah would have really gotten a flood of emotions going in her and I could really see where he could have succeeded in getting her to come out, especially for something so thoughtful as a present, and who doesn't like getting presents right? And who knows, maybe his motives were at least somewhat sincere but she didn't respond as he hoped with that first call from the pay phone. And she spent some time trying to deal with this flood of emotion now coming back as she posted some romantic sort of poetic musings to her Tumblr account while in the meantime maybe he crawled back home dejected to a women he knew in his heart he no longer loved, but he feared. And then something that I really don't think SM anticipated happening occurred that set a deadly cascade of horror in full motion...his cell phone rang.
Whether or not TM held a gun on SM threatening him and possibly even their children with some sort of murder/ suicide scenario if he didn't comply with her plan by the time that phone rang the last time and it was finally answered, I'm not sure of...yet. Maybe it was like some have suggested that she instead threatened him with throwing him off the property with nothing to his name and to take the children from him, maybe accuse him of things either true or false -- who's to know when you're dealing with an inveterate liar -- so vile that in a place that is, in essence "a small town", he would have been branded a pariah. However those final moments played out before getting in the truck and driving to PTL to perpetrate this evil -- and I do believe we will find out these details in the end -- the fact that SM did go along with this and still refuses to speak up and tell the truth about what happened and WHERE HEATHER IS even after he is outside the clutches of his wife when both are in what can be considered protective custody in two different facilities an hour or so apart, makes him -- no matter what his story is at this point -- 100% as guilty as the person I truly believe fantasied for weeks about and then in a blind rage executed a cold blooded kidnapping and murder of HRE and that is TM. And as much as I want with all my heart to see HRE returned to her family I will be disgusted to see either one of these two scum get cut a deal. So I hope that as more facts get put together and get released as time goes on that we as a community are able to get together and do more targeted searches in the near future so as to give the Elvis family the opportunity to lay their daughter, sister, niece to rest while at the same time giving the family the full justice that they deserve and finally, finally...wiping that @#%&ing grin off TMs face once and for all. Selah.
Just one more thing...(I used to love when Colombo turned around and said that) I've been intrigued by the speculation surrounding the HRE tweet with regards to "66 days" and I have my own theory on it that came to me when I originally read it that -- here again as stated with my other thoughts above -- I'm not sure if anyone else has proposed this as I have unfortunately been unable to read many of the early threads, however, I have seen where I think the two most agreed upon conclusions were that it was either in reference to a dance recital -- I believe -- for HRE sister or referred to the amount of days from the tweet until the trip to FLA where SM ran in the charity marathon at WDW. But what came to me when I read it was that there is a common theory in psychology which is backed up by research that it takes 66 days to form a good or healthy habit and I believe this can be used in regards to how long it takes to break free of a bad habit as well.
My theory here being that when one considers that at the time of the tweet HRE had just ended things with SM I believe that she very well may have tweeted this to give her a marker as a starting point to begin her countdown to "get over" either specifically this relationship that was coming to an end with SM or maybe married guys or jerks in general as she seemed like she had been drawn to this type before. HRE was a smart young lady and I have no doubt that she would have been aware of this 66 days reference to which I am referring. This is also why I believe she had a healthy reticence or reluctance, if you will, upon receiving SMs initial phone call from the pay phone as she had already made a vow I believe to "get over "him. Tragically though, she hadn't made it the full 66 days at that point and so in a way she hadn't kicked the SM habit yet. But I want to promise you Heather if you can hear me out there, if I ever get the chance, I'll kick him for you. These are of course all just my opinions and I thank-you for the opportunity to post here and be heard. Sorry for running on so long and any grammar errors but it was late when I started and now it's really late and I'm too tired to clean up my stream of consciousness this time but I promise to do better next time.
