Re the LV guy, she must've gone out of her way(see map below) for a reason that day and just for the cell thing just doesn't make enough sense to me. Otoh, perhaps she had someone waiting for her in LV with a place to clean up properly, feed her, possibly willing to help her dispose of stuff, etc.
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Transcript of Jodi's interview with Det. Flores;
19:31
DF: And which route did you take home from there?
19:34
JA: I was supposed to get on the 15 and go all the way up,
19:39
DF: Uh huh…
19:40
JA: and I somehow got off of 15.
19:43
DF: Where did you end up?
19:45
JA: Umm for awhile I was lost, and I’m not above sleeping in the car so I slept for awhile. I’m a heavy sleeper and I sleep a lot, so.
19:53
DF: But you were on the 15 for awhile and you ended up getting off the 15 somewhere?
19:57
JA: Yeah, I looked at a map but I’m pretty sure I know where I went. Can I draw you a map?
(Detective Flores tears off a sheet of paper)
20:02
DF: Sure.
20:07
JA: ‘Cos I eventually started seeing signs umm for Phoenix, and I was like… and it was several hundred miles away still, like that’s weird, where am I going, ummm… (JA begins to draw a map on paper). So you have California, Los Angeles, and … ummm Nevada... Arizona…Utah, and I was supposed to go somewhere right up here… oops.. I’m a lefty…so 15 kinda' does one of these
20:33
DF: Yeah… goes through let’s say Las Vegas right here…
20:37
JA: Oh yeah. I’m sorry. My map is so wrong.
20:40
DF: No… that’s okay… that’s okay. So we’ll just put…just put…
20:42
JA: I know it cuts through Arizona on the corner... Las Vegas... umm…St. George is somewhere here… and then… the 40 runs somewhere this way, ‘cos somehow I ended up on the 40, and when I saw the 40, I’m like… the only thing I associate with the 40 is Flagstaff, and Flagstaff is somewhere Utah... I mean northern Arizona, and so ummm… I was going east, and I was like this isn’t, what’s going on here? I wasn’t going the right way. I’ve had for the last 2 years, I’ve had a car that has a GPS system in it and it’s really good, and umm…it…I think it hasn’t served me as far as getting a sense of direction when I moved to Palm Desert…
21:36
DF: Yeah, you kind of rely on it a little too much.
21:37
JA: Too much. In fact, when I moved, when I moved in with the last place I lived in Arizona I did not know how close it was to Travis. I didn’t realize. Ummm…I have a very bad sense of direction and it wasn’t until I began to… I used my GPS the whole time I was there pretty much just to find things, Umm anyway, so I got back… I looked at the Mapquest that I had Mapquested a bunch of places…I was (unintelligible) Death Valley…I was
22:08
DF: Did you actually cross over into Arizona? Is that how far you went?
22:11
JA: I crossed over twice, I think. My map is wrong because the 93 goes North, and then I hit the 15 again, and then I got here, and then I hit Arizona, and then I’m here… but somehow I got north on the 93
22:27
DF: Okay
22:27
JA: and then I hit the 15. So, I mean I don’t know where Phoenix is, Mesa, it’s gotta’ be over here. I didn’t go anywhere near there.
22:35
DF: So you took this trip and you left on…was it Monday the 2nd? Right? And you didn’t get to Utah until Thursday, you told me.
22:52
JA: Yeah, I got to Utah on Thursday.
22:54
DF: So Thursday, that’s the 5th.
22:59:
JA: Uhh yeah… I think so.
23:01
DF: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. Okay so we have 48 hours there but well, obviously 3 days, but there’s 48 hours... This trip took you a little over 48 hours. Umm…I have a problem with this trip.