It takes two and a half hours to get from her home to where the phones pinged so it would take the same amount of time to get back. It would be impossible to have the person who had the phones in the ping location to be back at the home at 6:37am.
Yes, I know. I was only talking about the time it takes to drive
one way.
But you're correct that would narrow the timeline considerably thinking about how long it took round trip. Figure the person with the phones was speeding a bit-- someone had to have left the house with the phones before 2 AM to get to the Kentucky Welcome Center, ditch the phones and drive back home by 6:37 AM.
I'm figuring that the crime most likely occurred between 11 PM and 2 AM. All the kids are asleep.
3 hours is plenty of time to commit murder, hide the body, stage the scene and then proceed to ditch her phones as far away as you can go and still get back home before any of the other kids wake up. I'm assuming the crime didn't happen right at 11 PM. Some time had to pass for the kids to fall asleep. Probably closer to 1 AM. MOO.
It's still quite strange they waited until 6:37 to call 911
if she was first noticed missing at 4 AM. I'm wondering if it's any coincidence that 2.5 hours is about how long it would take to drive from the KY Welcome Center to their home and that is also how long was waited to call 911. Imagine if CP is at home at 4 AM and is unaware (or unsure) of what happened. Perhaps CP woke up at 4 AM to find
SP and RP gone. CP might have called RP first to see if SP was with him. In this scenario, at around 4 AM RP would realize he has driven as far as he can, ditch SP's phones and turn around to head home to make up a story. He might have told CP not to do anything (RE: calling 911) until he got there. He could have said he went out to look for SP. If this is the case the cell records will reveal where RP was and where CP was too.
MOO.
