cujenn81
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(how does one make a "botched attempt" at purchasing a snow shovel?)
I'm a little intrigued by the timeline....it sounds like they had the Target surveillance tapes before they talked to DE for the first time, presumably before they had DE's GPS info, before they had spoken to NK for the first time, and also before they had found NL's body or knew for sure that she wasn't a runaway (I think). So how did they come across this surveillance tape....? Did they have Nicole's phone with them? Hadn't DE and NK turned their phones off? Was their "botched attempt" at purchasing a snow shovel so unbelievably odd that the Target workers remembered the incident and forwarded the info to police even though police weren't specifically looking for odd people purchasing digging tools?
Strange...
Do I have the timeline wrong?
I can't quite pin down the timeline on this either. I can't remember if DE & NK purchased the shovel the day before---like after they discussed their plans at Cookout---or after the murder. I remember reading an article way back when (right after the arrests) that said they made two separate trips for "supplies"---one trip for the cleaning products and a separate trip for the shovel. It's a bit unclear to me how those events went down exactly. I can't remember if NK said they paid with cash or not either.
I also wonder at what point did they shut their phones off. From news reports, it sounds like they shut them off before driving to the NC line and powered them back on when they got into town. If that's the case, the phones may have been on while they were at Target. LE probably obtained a search warrant for the data on DE's phone prior to his arrest (based on the discovery of DE's messages with NL on Kik). They may have looked at the GPS coordinates and determined that he'd made a trip to Target and asked for the video footage. That's the only explanation I can figure... either that or he was dumb enough to use a debit/credit card inside the store.