Yes I have a lot of sympathy with this, have thought this for a long time. Wonder what the car told them?
It almost seems like they have 2 and 2 but can't quite put them together to make 4, something very crucial missing.
For me that is another person - for me that is the only way to explain Libby's disappearance WITHOUT TRACE when the Police have the last person known to have seen her alive? And they can't get a confession, nothing from the car, his phone, or anything from the house or his person that gives any clue as to her whereabouts?
That does not sound like an opportunist just grabbing a sudden opportunity! I know he would have planned this to some extent, if he was engaged in stalking activity, but for a lone operator, of such a young age, potentially his first physical assault type of crime; and he's evaded all the forensics, left no trace of him or Libby in the park, out-foxed the cadaver dog, and all on a night when you would look out and expect yourself to be leaving footprints and car tracks in the snow?
I don't think he 'planned' for killing or disposing of Libby. I think a mixture of his escalation, bravado, and possibly drugs, meant he had only planned up to and including getting physical with Libby or another girl that night; in his psychological disposition he has become so fixated, tunnel visioned, in the hour or so leading up to contact with Libby, that once at and beyond that stage, he has no plan.
Which is where I am going round in circles... which is why I am convinced there had to be a second person involved.
I said this earlier up the thread - but I see this as almost 2 separate crimes;
1) PR's assault on LS, events surrounding which are categorised by and within his behaviour.
2) The disappearance of Libby; this is why so many people still stick to the theory that PR actually had nothing to do with her disappearance. The disappearance half of the incident is of a different character to the first half of the incident; namely PR and his contact/interaction with LS.
So EITHER - his role is as he has said; maybe he intended to stalk her and try it on with her, but never to actually force himself on her? Maybe he left it at that, she got out, he drove off... AND now she is 'abducted' by someone who may or may not exist with ZERO clues and ZERO trace
Or - he 'accidentally' killed her; and he either borrowed someone's car and drove her away from the city, or he had help...
There is a huge piece missing here, obviously I know given she herself is mysteriously missing. But PRs involvement does not make full sense from beginning to end IF YOU FOLLOW THE SCENARIO THROUGH.