Most of us give out a lot of personal information without realizing it. Chatting with a cashier. Wrapping up a meet-and-greet. Not even always with words either.
Examples:
Yup, my daily fix of treats, nreakfast of champions! I snack, shuttle driver drives, it's a great set up!
Yeah, well, nice to meet ypu, but I best get going, need to get some sleep, have to catch the 5am shuttle in the morning.
Even without dialogue, we fill our tanks. We pay inside, anybody close by can see if we got $5 or $50's worth of gas.
Predators are often willing to play the long game.
He may have checked out right behind her
months ago. Maybe have followed her to Walmart; in fact, he may have "invested" a whole bunch of Mondays [do I have the right day of the week?] Lurking in the shadows. Planning. plotting. Practicing.
Eerie if Walmart has footage of him on other days.
Who knows whether he staked her out previously. Studying her habits. Listening for lock/ unlock. Establishing her pattern.
Was this the first time he parked over by ShWms? Or had he cased that out too? Naomi may have been in the path of evil on other days, too. Utterly unaware.
IMO
He knew she'd be there that day.
He parked elsewhere and walked there on purpose and for one and only one sinister reason.
He knew she had a full tank.
I believe he knew whether her car was unlocked -- not locked or unlocking -- but unlocked.
I believe he had full confidence he could open the car door, hip check her into the passenger seat. (I further think he had the advantage of ambush and IMO a weapon, likely a taser, likely the evidence of which moved LE to recognize foul play from the outset).
I think he had a preset destination in mind. Not random. On a road he'd been on before.
I think it's
possible he drove Naomi to that desert location in her own car. Also possible IMO he drove
back to that location in
his work truck...
On a different day. To conceal her better.
I can't help but wonder if the tire change wasn't to obscure his truck but to obscure his
work truck. Wondering if it's possible to swap tires off a work truck, replace 'em with tires from a personal truck.
Maybe his truck never went there. Instead his work truck did. Day of, day after, any day since.
This whole case is a gutpunch.
She was simply going to work.
I wish the world were a safer place.
JMO