Fascinating! I tried listening when it first came out, but couldn't access it. Now it's available on my Windows PC!
May - Aug 1980 Dean and Tina live in Baltimore, MD
Aug 1980 Dean and Tina move to Lewisville, Texas and live with Dean's cousin for barely one month.
Sept 1980?? Dean and Tina move to an apartment. The apartment is put in Dean's uncle's name (Cosigned?) Very shortly later, (about one week??) the landlord calls Dean's uncle requesting the rent. Dean and Tina have disappeared.
Oct 1980 A letter written to Tina in Texas is "returned to sender" with no forwarding address.
Jan 1981 Man calls Dean's mom about her vehicle. Dean's mother meets with that women at Daytona Speedway and vehicle is returned.
I have always gotten the impression that "Sister Susan et al" were never seriously questioned by police in Florida. Police were primarily at the racetrack for Dean's mother's protection and did this for her as a favor. Legally, they could not be detained, much less taken to a police station. They were not accused of any crime. (Yeah the car stuff was shady, but it was 1980. Donna's vehicle was returned. Dean supposedly had joined a cult) The police probably gave them a ride to a bus station or something.
No employment information available from Dr Horton, but that doesn't mean Dean didn't work with a contractor.
JMO, I find it noteworthy that former cult members are inserting themselves into the current investigation, attempting to influence the narrative about the cult and its activities related to the murdered couple and their kidnapped baby.
Hopefully, LE will hear from other former cult members who were there at the same time as Dean and Tina.
When you look at the timeline, it doesn't appear they were "with" the cult for very long. It seems odd, JMO, that one week they would be renting an apartment, working at a new job, settling in with their baby and a week later joint a cult, disappear and allegedly give away their baby.
Aug 1980 Dean and Tina move to Lewisville, Texas and live with Dean's cousin for barely one month.
Sept 1980?? Dean and Tina move to an apartment. The apartment is put in Dean's uncle's name (Cosigned?) Very shortly later, (about one week??) the landlord calls Dean's uncle requesting the rent. Dean and Tina have disappeared.
Oct 1980 A letter written to Tina in Texas is "returned to sender" with no forwarding address.
Murdered sometime between late November 1980 and January 5, 1981
Jan 12, 1981 Dean and Tina's bodies are found 270 miles away in a wooded area outside of Houston, TX
One week they're sending home photos of their adored little child, the next they're giving her away? Two months later, their bodies are found 270 miles away outside Houston, TX?
Seems unlikely they would relocate to Lewisville, TX for a new job, rent an apartment, get some furniture, etc. if they planned to join a cult. JMO
Their estimated time of death was 1 - 6 weeks before their bodies were found, so that puts their possible deaths between the first week of January to the last week of November 1980.
How did Dean and Tina end up murdered 270 miles from their apartment? Where were the members of the cult living at that time? Were they in the Dallas/Ft Worth area, where the Clouses were living or were they operating out of Houston, TX?
If they allegedly gave up their apartment and joined this cult, did they join it in the DFW area?
If they allegedly joined this cult, where were they staying? In a building? A motel? Sleeping on the streets? Where did the cult members live? Did they have a house? It was late fall, early winter in north Texas, so it was probably getting cold. Not good weather for sleeping outdoors.