My earlier question:
...was LB carrying sleep over clothes, and LE is keeping that secret? If so, where are LB's clothes?
I am convinced LB was not carrying anything 'extra' beyond what she was wearing. MK, on the other hand might have been carrying clothes from the previous nights sleep over at LB's? Eh.
We are told that JB was with them and they had the bike: I'm stumped. If JB, or even LB or MK, wanted to ride the bike along side while they walked, ok... but we have this:
I've read (not here?) where LB has used the bike earlier that day and the chain broke and the 'argument' during the walk to MK's was about how LB broke the bike.
If the bike was broken, why did they bring it with them?
Perhaps to take it to someone to have it fixed? Is there a 'go-to' person or business in McCleary to whom neighborhood kids bring their broken bikes?
I have read (from KK, sourced to MK) that the bike was left at the Shell station while on the way to MK's. Why? Did LB believe there was not enough time to stop at the 'go-to' person to have it fixed while JB was insisting they bring it to have it fixed?
After leaving MK's house, did LB begin to feel guilty about the broken bike and decide to stop at the along-the-way-home 'go-to' person / business to inquire if they would fix the bike? LB might ask that 'go-to' person to walk with her to the Shell station, from where she could proceed to her house while the 'go-to' person could gather the bike and take it back to their home / establishment.
Might have the 'go-to' person suggest they drive to the Shell station to gather the bike, or perhaps the 'go-to' person invited LB into their house / establishment while the person 'gathered tools' for fixing the bike?
I have read (from KK) the bike was eventually retrieved from the Shell station two or three days after LB's disappearance. That does not mean the scenarios I suggest above did not occur, it just means the bike was insignificant at the point .. or was it:
- Did MB know that evening they brought the bike with them toward MK's?
- Did MB ask JB, upon his return home the 'argument', where was his bike?
- Did MB know the bike was broken?
- Did MB or others searching for LB that evening think that LB might be riding the bike?
- Did MB or others searching for LB that evening see the bike at the Shell station?
- Why did LE leave the bike at the Shell station .. would it not be considered evidence in light of what might have occurred that evening?
Of course, it could be this simple: that the bike broke along the way to MK's that evening, therefore the bike would be of no obvious significance.
Regardless, on that evening or the next morning I would have checked at the Shell station to determine if the bike was still there to at least ascertain some hope that LB might simply be riding the bike to somewhere, instead of believing she might be an abductee.
Does anyone know if MB and friends checked at the Shell station that evening?
Also: who was on their way to the Water Tower that evening (the 'kids' WB saw on Maple?) ... and did they convince LB to join them for a beer or two?
