Steelman, what's your take on this one? Do you think he's done something like this before?
No, I think he just let his fantasies become reality, and after he had held her a few days and done only God knows what to her, realized that there was no way he could just let her go. At that point it would have been forcible rape, but he still would have been in a boatload of trouble. I would imagine after a few days, Brianna realized this was going to end really badly. I would think she probably tried to talk him out of this scheme. Once this thing passed a certain point, there was no turning back.
I'm sure his defense team is going to argue that it was a consensual sexual relationship that got too kinky and she died by mistake. He panicked and hid the body. That will be the defense. Of course, trying to explain why she completely vanished for 3 weeks, with no contact to family, friends, or bosses, might be a little harder for them to explain away.
The coroner said she had only died a few days before she was found on May 31.
Unfortunately, he had about 14 full days to destroy and hide evidence of this before his arrest last night. That's not good. Restraints, rope, duct tape, cuffs, etc. may have been thrown away or destroyed. I think that may be part of the reason why they went with 2nd degree instead of murder 1.
