We have known since October 2021 when OAG released their partial information packet that the Pavilion CCTV picked up only one vehicle traveling past at (5:56 AM) during that early morning timeframe. Being aware of the importance of the statement that TB is alleged to have made regarding the open gate that was normally closed, one must ask: "Because TB and Deputy PG did not drive through the area, how did TB know that the normally closed gate was open at the time?".
I don't know the answer but I believe it is a valid question.
TBs car was found very early the next morning after his disappearance. The discussion from Tucker on seeing the gate open was after the discovery of the vehicle.
This isn’t a clear case with two choices - he saw it or he’s lying.
As a family member of someone who has gone missing, you enter a state of panic/shock/disbelief/helplessness while trying to capture details. At the same time people are throwing theories and new pieces of information at you that while you voraciously try to mentally filter, retain, recollect and file away thousands of bits of information - all potential clues. In effect, your mind is in overdrive and it can fail.
After learning of the car’s final location, Tucker could have simply imagined he drove by there with PG and saw the gate open.
But as far as NL is concerned, I am completely baffled by his indifferent response to a missing teen.
You would think that if NL had a previous run in with TB which landed him in hot water (resulting in a write up by then Sheriff Pearson) and having just begun his term as Sheriff a month before TB went missing, that he’d take extra good care of this case. Instead he parades his apathy with fearless bravado.
What intrigues me is the relationship between TB’s dad and NL. They played fantasy football - so there is some kind of kinship there- but the fact that NL did not call his father when he picked up TB - has me considering how come we don’t know more about that friendship? Fantasy football includes money - if I’m not mistaken. Did they play with money? Were there debts/rivalries? Were they friendly or competitive against each other? Do they hate each other and therefore TB, as his son, gets some of that spillover hate/disregard ?Or were they friends?
We know exactly how PM feels about NL, but it’s all pretty quiet on the dad front. Why is that?