Did not hear Josh mention sledding, but did hear several times about "making s'mores, and stuff". Smores? at 1am, freezing temps, with 2 almost babies, and in what is considered almost a wilderness area? Am betting they had fireplace in home that could have served, or microwave, or firepit in backyard. He loves 'dem smores, huh?
Taking the kids for a camping trip at 12:30midnight on Sunday, makes you wonder... Specially if (as someone said before) it's 3 hours away, meaning smores at 3:30am... and that's after they mount camp (in pitch dark), because they had no trailer.
Did he:
1. intend to first kill the mother and then get rid of the kids in the wilderness, but changed his mind?
2. intend to kill the mother and run off with the kids, then changed his mind?
3. get rid of the mother's body near town, but drove off miles away to throw away police?
4. get rid of her body in one area but then traveled to another to throw off police?
5. get rid of her body where he supposedly camped?
What convinces me that he's done it is that he comes (supposedly) Monday night (thinking it's Sunday) and notices a window open (police had broken it the day before when they answered the missing persons call) and his wife is nowhere to be found... and he is okay with it.
The next day his wife is still missing, and he doesn't call the in-laws to find out if she is there. After all, remember that when he left she wasn't feeling well?
And, who leaves a sick spouse for two days and is not concerned when at returning that spouse is nowhere to be found and there is a window shattered?
The father-in-law says Josh called him at after noon to tell him Susan was missing. Had he called police yet? Had he been contacted by police?
I would believe his story if...
1. he had missed work on Mondays before thinking that it was Sunday
2. he had taken the kids on wilderness trips in the middle of the night in the past
3. Susan had been missing one whole night and one morning and he hadn't tried to call the in-laws or friends to find out where she was (as controlling as he is said to be)
4. Susan had left without her purse, cell, and without leaving a note or sending a message to him as to where she was.
I am also curious if he didn't try calling her while he was gone, since she was sick when he left.
Yup, another Peterson, Stebic, etc...