Further back in the thread a poster said this case
was confusing. The very long Aug 18, 2022 Dateline
article that
imstilla.grandma cited here;
SC - SC - Alexis Ware 29, talked about being followed, car found in McCormick, Anderson, 30 Jan 2022
provides a lot of helpful information and, well, it's
not too hard to come up with theories on how this
may have played out. So, e.g.
IMO possibly;
-Alexis probably, inadvisably, boasted about how
she had won the lottery via a lottery ticket. (i.e.
Georgia State Lottery?), to somebody (female client
of her 'makeup artist, hairstylist' livelihood?) that
had criminal associations and who may have passed
on that information to criminal(s).
-The black truck criminal(s) probably planned to
force Alexis off the road with the intention to make
her give over the lottery ticket/money, however,
it seems no easy opportunity to do that occurred,
(from
GraceG;
SC - SC - Alexis Ware 29, talked about being followed, car found in McCormick, Anderson, 30 Jan 2022
"She's had a LOT of traffic infractions for speeding
and/or unsafe driving in her court records")
...because, no black truck is going to be able to
easily come up on a 2019 Honda Accord Sport,
without that fast Honda being able to speed away.
-It's possible the black truck criminal(s) therefore
had to come up with a different plan...
-On the night Alexis handed over the kids to her
ex-partner & whilst following him, [coincidentally]
it's possible the black truck criminal(s) had a female
criminal accomplice (voice) call Alexis with an offer
too good to refuse, say, 'I will pay $$$$ to you to
come to X address and do nails,hairstyles,etc.,/
offer to you to rent cheap a business property
in Atlanta/offer to you seed money for your
start-up Atlanta business if I can be partner/etc.',
all with the condition that others are interested
in instead actioning this, so Alexis
must make the
time to come over tonight and do/agree to/partner
this thing.
-So possibly this is why Alexis puts the pedal to
the metal and zooms off to the address given,
some apartment complex in Anderson, SC, (note,
given there was sharing of the children's time
with the ex-partner, it's possible there was some
agreement or family court order to that affect,
so Alexis wouldn't necessarily want to have to
inform to the ex-partner that she wasn't at that
time joining him to be with the children because
she went off pursuing a financial opportunity...
such an act could be used to portray her negatively
in any possible future family court process).
-When Alexis arrives at the apartment complex
address, there is possibly a criminal female
accomplice waiting outside it, making some
excuse along the lines of, 'Hey, I was just visiting
my friend at this address here, please come with
me to my apartment', (almost certainly a different,
not to far off, address to that originally said)
-When Alexis is inside whatever residence the
accomplice takes her to, the black truck criminal(s)
possibly grab her and threaten her for the lottery
ticket/money
-Alexis possibly tells them the winning lottery ticket
is or isn't in her car/tells them there are a number
of say, $500 winning lottery tickets in her car/some
variation or combination thereof...
-The criminal(s) or maybe their female accomplice
decide to drive to Augusta, GA, to possibly check,
of the tickets in the car, if any are in fact the big
winning lottery ticket and/or if any are several of
say, $500 payout winning tickets (note; for the
Georgia State lottery, "Prizes under $601 can be
claimed at any Georgia Lottery retail location";
www.galottery.com
however, now getting into the late dark hours, no
small store is going to make multiple cash payouts,
so possibly a big city in Georgia, like Augusta, is
preferred to find a big 24 hour retail store. Also,
if the criminals are intending to claim several
small cash payouts and/or check if one ticket is a
big winning ticket, better to do that across the
State line, additionally in a city where the
criminal(s) and/or where the possible female
criminal accomplice (who may be trying to
impersonate Alexis) are unlikely to be recognized
in & unlikely to ever be subsequentially present at
to be recognized
-The criminals possibly used Alexis car as they did
not want any (SC?) car of theirs recorded crossing/
being over the State line, in Augusta
-Probably, the tickets Alexis had in her car in fact
actually had NO payout accrueing to them
-Regardless of the outcome of the tickets, the
criminals probably planned to kill Alexis, something
she was probably also aware of.
Will South Carolina police solve this? Well, again
from the link
cited above;
..."
inside the car, police found those lottery tickets
she told her mom about."
"Sgt. Finley: “Generally, I mean, it suggests she wasn't
robbed -- that there was not a motive of any kind of
robbery going on there. So we can eliminate that."
"Andrea Canning: “Did it suggest possible foul play?"
"Sgt. Finley: “Maybe. It is uncommon that you would
leave something like that behind in the vehicle. You
instantly kind of gravitate towards that maybe some
foul play was involved. But as of yet, nothing has
been found. No theories are off limits."
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That response from the SC police does not engender
any confidence that back then the SC police actually
bothered to ascertain
if any attempt, by any person,
was made to check if those (probably non-winning)
tickets had a payout accrueing to them (i.e. if those
tickets were scanned or ticket identifying numbers
were input, at any lottery retailer payout terminal,
to check ticket payout status) about the timeframe
after Alexis went missing.
If that is the case, that means SC police may have
missed the opportunity to request retailer video that
could have contained images of the criminal(s).
(This is a different action to (simply) investigating
of the Georgia State Lottery if those tickets were
'payout' tickets).
www.nbcnews.com
