Im not discounting the weed story.....something made her go there. I dont think he abducted her in daylight at the gas station.
I also find it hard to believe the he abducted her in broad daylight. Route 29 is a heavily-traveled road and I can't imagine he would risk being seen there. I believe something happening on a side road, such as Canery Road, or on his (not too visible) property . . . But, the question remains, why/how did she go to his property or come in contact with him on a side-road???
This is purely my speculation, but I think one of two things happened:
1.) They spoke at the gas station, discussed weed and agreed to meet at his house for a transaction. While there, he attacked her. Her phone was subsequently turned off by RAT or battery drained on its own.
2.) Somehow he got her to turn on the desolate Cannery Road and attacked her there, then took her (with her phone) to his property. Once he realized she had the phone, he turned it off.
With either of these two scenarios, there was a +/- 40 hour time period between the incident and when her car was first spotted at Carmike. Again, I am speculating, but I believe he drove her car to the theater in the late night/early hours of Saturday or Sunday. And then walked back to Nelson. I really don't think there is an accomplice. He is a loner; no real friends and estranged from all family except his son (and as a co-parent, his x-wife).
I think he either walked away from the theater and then called someone to pick him up (possibly from the apartments the scent was tracked to) or he walked home. The walk to Nelson is far, but not impossible in the timeframe he had. If he got a ride, I think LE knows about it (used his cell phone to call), but the driver is not a person-of-interest. If he walked, I believe LE would have picture of him somewhere on the road or reports from passerby. The roads to get from the theater to his house are heavily traveled and consist of many busy intersections with cameras (I've received a "ticket-by-mail" and a picture of me making an illegal u-turn at one of them) . . . the film quality is GOOD! . . . it would be virtually impossible to walk from the theater to his house thru the woods/all backroads. At some point, you'd have to be on a major road. . . . and hopefully be caught on film.
Does anyone recall if the 7:00pm-ish phone ping was the LAST ping? If a full phone charge lasts 24 hours, her phone could have possibly continued to ping until Sunday. Dosen't the pinging still occur until you take the battery out (even if turned off)?
I believe he HAD to have taken her phone from her. I can't imagine that she would have turned off her phone (unless forced). So, I'm guessing that if the last ping was at 7:00pm-ish, that RAT was the one the threw/hid the phone in the gulley, sometime after the abduction. If the last ping was the next day (or whenever the battery died), I'd speculate that her phone was dropped in the gulley as she was fighting him, during the abduction.
My apologies for ranting and going in a bunch of different directions, but my mind is racing . . . . I wish they would just find her and have enough evidence to convict the assailant(s). Again, all of the above is just my opinion, based on what I have read/heard.
