Something has been sitting in the back of my mind ever since the release of the texts and I thought I'd throw it out there and see if it's something I need to forget as fast as I thought of it.
12:00 to 12:20 - Kelli leaves the bar
12:46 - Kelli's text indicating Nick is driving her now
Kelli's apartment is only 5 minutes away. There are 26 to 46 minutes unaccounted for. On top of that, the language in the first text seems to be "off" to me. I know the thought has been expressed questioning if Kelli sent the second text, but is it possible she didn't even send the first text? It would seem odd that Nick would name himself in it, but then again, people already knew he was driving her home. The "call me" part of the text doesn't seem to fit with this train of thought because a phone call would either go unanswered or answered by Nick.
What keeps playing out in my head is if Nick did something to her immediately after leaving the bar, he had up to 46 minutes to subdue/restrain her or worse. Sends the first text. Disposes/Hides Kelli within the next 38 minutes. Sends the second text. Both texts trying to build his alibi. I know the first one doesn't seem to make as much sense as the first one, but I just can't get past what they would have been doing for 26 to 46 minutes and the odd language of the first one. Thoughts?
It seems there are different accounts regarding when Kelli left the bar so I don't know just how much we can depend on the timeline. I have read articles that have stated that she left the bar between 12:00 to 12:20 as you stated above. The official Kelli Bordeaux website,
www.findkelli.com, states she left the bar between 12:57 and 1:20 AM. NamUS, the National Missing Person Database states she went missing between 12:57 and 1:20 AM as well.
In one of the more recent articles it states " It was about 12:45 a.m. when Holbert left to drive Kelli home, Locklear said."
http://fayobserver.com/articles/2013/04/14/1247012?sac=fo.crime
Kelli's text at 12:46 AM indicates that Nick was driving her at that time, if we are to read the text that way. It is possible that they were getting ready to leave the bar when she sent that text. It is also possible that Nick sent that text. After thinking about this for awhile, Nick stated that he dropped Kelli off 1/4 mile away from her complex because she didn't want him to pull up to her door.
It certainly would be a good alibi on his part to send a text from Kelli's phone stating "Oh, well, Nick is driving me home now. I'm going to get out ASAP. Call me." Getting out ASAP lines up with his story about dropping her off 1/4 of a mile away.
I also can not understand why Kelli would want him to drop her off a 1/4 mile away from her door when he picked her up at her home earlier that evening?
snipped "That Friday night, Holbert picked Kelli up at her apartment about 8 p.m., Locklear said, and made the half-mile drive down the hill to the bar near the entrance to Interstate 295."
http://fayobserver.com/articles/2013/04/14/1247012?sac=fo.crime