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Hmmm...don't think this route works...
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Mesa to Lake Havasu - 3 hours 26 minutes - 209 miles
Lake Havasu to Kingman 1 hour - 60 miles
Kingman to Mesquite 2 hours 45 minutes - 184 miles
7 hours 13 minutes - 453 miles
Add Pasadena miles to Mesa (366 miles) and total is 819.
The 15 gallons in the cans would give her 450 miles, her car's 12 gallons would get her 360 miles - total miles 810. If she traveled Mesa to Mesquite by way of Kingman we have a trip of 396 miles, adding Pasadena to that is a total of 762...yeah, even going to Lake Havasu before Kingman she still doesn't have enough gas.
Great to see this laid out. If she had gone on the Havasu route so she could clean up and/or get rid of the evidence, that would have added quite a bit of time, too. She has to get somewhere close to AZ Last Stop by 10:30 pm to make that call to Ryan. I don't think the Havasu route will work time-wise.
And is there any evidence she'd been to the Havasu area before? I can't see her going somewhere unfamiliar.
It seems unlikely that JA bought gas before she got to NV. She filled up in Mesquite, right? And she showed up in SLC with 3 empty gas cans and needing to fill her car tank. There wouldn't have been room for all that gas if she'd bought extra gas between Pasadena and Mesquite?