SBM. IIRC, the guy who bought her the Jeep is not on the acronym list and he was not identified as one of her phone contacts that day.
Thank you. And having now completed the reading of all the WS posts,
@indicolite22 I am impressed and thankful for your ability and willingness to keep the facts (as we know them) straight for us.
I now have some observations, questions, and opinions to add (addressed to you or anyone who has interest or knowledge, of course)...
1 Why did she take the path she did, turning around? Why did she end up at Olympus?
I'm convinced it was all about finding a place to hide, and quickly. Her circuitous path and eventual destination came after the LE-documented road rage incident. At that point, police reports seem to indicate two cars (not police) may have been tailing her as she drove away, and all indications say she would have been angry, drunk, confused, and probably lost. It's unlikely she had completely clear thinking to reason it all out, but it all adds up to her looking for someplace close to land, where no one could find her until she sobered up, before LE found her or noticed her driving drunk.
So, I do think she didn't go to R's building to meet him, not primarily, and what she wanted was the place (of refuge, so to speak), not a meeting with him. As she drove, it's always possible she saw a police car or one of the cars at the road rage, which made her even more desperate to get out of her Jeep and hide.
2 LE has her phone's ping locations as she went, which offer them some general guidelines to the path she drove. I've yet to see a map of them with precise ping points - were they released? or kept private?
....2a I do see LE saying she went "towards White Rock Lake" (and similar words), but I still question if she went out of her way at all towards the lake, or if the pings might show her end up heading that way perhaps accidentally (drunk, lost, avoiding police, etc), or even barely at all. We did have an early Fox 4 video with a animated map showing her path as they understood it (with that description included), and it showed her turning back westbound at the exit towards White Rock Lake, but never really going towards it.
....2b It's noteworthy that there's no time, in the mass of rush hour traffic, for her to have made any stop along the way from her "road rage" to Olympus, using the route she took.
... 2c Although, plotting this drive precisely hardly matters to the question of what has happened to her.
3 There were 2 calls made while on that drive, at 5:25 and 5:27. One was to R. It may have been around the time she started heading back towards Olympus, but I would wager she was calling LOOKING for someone who could get her to some place of refuge. (There's no indication either call was answered. I think she went there assuming she could make it work - and then when she arrived, she is calling, calling, calling to get R to tell her the apt # and how to get in).
4 While R would make a great suspect, I can't fit him. I don't see any reason for him to even know she went there. I trust the police have superb ability to check an alibi and see if it holds up, so I accept R was (a) elsewhere until 4 am, and (b) unaware that PR was at his building. And just as important to me, other than the fact he seems to generally be a jerk, there's no real motive for him to want to kill her.
As for the idea he could have done something after 4 am, that doesn't work either. Because PR vanished at 6 pm-ish. And not knowing the apartment number nor having a key, I don't see an angry, emotional, confused drunk being able to get to get into his apartment.
.... Although a magic scenario can be invented. Magically, she does figure out his apt #. She gets a key. She gets in. She crashes on his bed. Phone dies. She sleeps. And when he gets home, he's so pissed he ...? No wait - I'm a man, and I come home to find a babe in my bed, it doesn't make me mad.
5 I did see a post that she knew AT LEAST one other person who lived in that building, derived from the friends list on her FB page. Isn't it possible she could have bumped into this person that evening? Have they been looked at closely? "She saw someone she knew and went with them" feels like something a person would be more likely to do, than going with someone she did not know.
6 I have seen stories that the Jeep was not in her name at all, and was owned by an older man. I have alternately seen it said she had a "co-signer" (which would mean the Jeep was in her name after all, with a loan she was paying). I have alternately seen it said that the Jeep was a gift to her (which would mean the Jeep was in her name, with no loan).
Do we have reliable info on this?
...6a I have also seen it said that this guy was married. Is that true? Do we know who he was to her?
7 As we try to make sense of the multiple men in PR's life, some of them much older and some abusive, and see her erratic and alarming behavior that day, and the info of a part-time night job which might have exposed her to predators, I have to wonder if (unknown to family) this sort of drama on Apr 17 was not new to her. Her son and family offered incentive in a good direction, but was she used to bad alternatives she might have considered at that point, 6 pm, alone, crying, hiding from cops, the (ex-)bf not there to help her out of a jam and fussing with her earlier?
8 Her phone still worked for some time after 6. LE says it did not stop pinging at 6, but hasn't told us how long. But that's why we look for her there, since at 6 she stopped using it.
.... 8a But could she simply have been separated from her phone? If so, what might that have looked like? Was she the type to get mad and toss it off the building? [You'd think if it was simply lost, it would have been found at some point later, by someone.]
.... 8b If she still had her phone, then she was still there until it stopped pinging. Did she pass out or fall asleep? [But if so, someone would have noticed her, right?]
... 8c How/why did no one notice her presence after 6, if she was there? SHE CANNOT HAVE BEEN IN A PUBLIC AREA, FOR HOURS AFTER 6, AND IT'S A TIME SHE WOULD HAVE BEEN EASILY SEEN IF IN A PUBLIC AREA. Because ...
9 IMPORTANT TO NOTE -and something I haven't seen elsewhere - is that the weather and type of day at 6 pm Apr 17 were perfect. It was NOT dark -- sunset was another 2 hours later, and dark 30 minutes after that. No rain, a bit of breeze. Temp was about 78 and got down to about 72 at dark.
... Could she have tossed her phone in the dumpster, say, and just walked away down the street on a nice spring day to who knows where (or to whom)? [But then, why didn't she or they ever tell us where she is?]
... Did she have any friends or connections who lived or worked close by?
10 There's been no mention by anyone, but I have to wonder about the possibility of drugs in the equation. Not her drink being spiked (I saw LE in some report say they watched the video of the entire time she was at the bar, and it never happened, no chance). But could some drug dealer have come along in that garage and offered her something? Would she have taken it, and then who knows what? Is it possible she ever took drugs at times, perhaps to keep her going? Mix the use of some drugs, a bad reaction or an OD, or a rape and abuse and killing, and then someone is finding a way to haul away a body to hide what happened. [Although, how easy is that to do discreetly?]