When reviewing the events that evening, and trying to determine how she ended up down that road to the beach off Zangle - what are the possibilities?
1. She followed someone there
2. She was evading someone and in trying to get away she ended up there
3. She was meeting someone 'there' and finally found the place (remember she did not have her phone, so if she planned to meet someone and was planning on getting turn by turn directions on the phone with the person, she couldn't. It may have taken her all this time to find the place they planned to meet)
4. She was so totally disoriented (due to stress, alcohol, brain event, etc.) that she turned the wrong way on Boston Harbor Rd NE from the Williams house (just 0.2 miles back).
Which is most likely - why? Which is least likely - why?
Imo, the least likely is #2 if lights were seen by someone at around 11pm, that is 25 minutes after she was seen at GHM, but the beach is only 5 miles away, iirc. so she would have been having to go very slowly for it to take that amount of time to go 5 miles. So if evading means she thinks she's being chased, or even followed, she would have gone toward people, not away from them.
Also least likely is #4, b/c the path was too narrow, and hard to see even in the daytime, and that night was the darkest of nights, and at 10:10, until perhaps 10:30, imo, she was at the Williams' house, and they said she was nervous, maybe scared b/c she was lost, but otherwise ok. So they didn't seem to think she was drunk, or was having a "brain event" of any kind. They did understand she was lost, but not lost as in disoriented, rather "lost" because she couldn't find the freeway.
which leaves 1 or 3, if these are the only options.
The way #3 is posed makes it unlikely. If she needed her phone to get there to meet someone, not Robb, she probably wouldn't have taken her own cell to begin with, so she likely would have left it behind on purpose. She would have gotten another phone before the meeting and it would only seem to Robb that she was without a phone.
She would not imo have planned on getting directions to the place they planned to meet and then forgot the phone before she left.
Is it possible she had another phone with her though, and was simply stalling for time, and leaving a scenario of staged events?
Why she would do that I can't imagine. She was/is a grown woman with the right to run off with someone if she wanted/s to. Remember the song about fifty ways to leave your lover? I don't think the bbm just above is one of them. Did she wanted everyone to think she was dead? If so, why?
Along with #3 and going to #1, she could have planned to meet someone near the beach, like GHM, but of course not there b/c of the cameras, and then followed them to the beach.
The scenes appear staged, especially when you get to the items on the beach near the steps, unless they weren't near the steps, but rather scattered along the beach. However, one article states LE thought because of how the items were found, they were placed there, not washed up, so the items are staged if the information is correct, which imo, makes everything else staged as well, the van, and every stop she made that caused everyone to think she was lost.
However, in order to conclude that the items, the van, and the videos, including the bought alcohol, are all staged, one must also conclude if 3 is to be likely, that SS conspired with someone to give the appearance that something happened (she got lost, then drowned) when something else happened, 3.
The wrench in #3 is that Az is deceased. LE says his demise was an accident. Since I don't entertain that SS harmed her child, if SS was alive right now, she would have called her ggp, and she would have as soon as she could have gotten to a phone, if she didn't have one with her. She would have stopped going with someone, so if she went to meet someone, after Azriel drowned, if not before, she was taken against her will. jmo
The most likely is #1 and that someone had knowledge of that beach access road. moo. Did she have prior knowledge of that beach access road?
But I guess the story to be believed is that she got lost, bought some wine, caught a buzz, not enough to appear drunk, attempted to feed her son, then left, happened upon a house who fed him, then just happened to find that narrow path, got stuck on the beach, abandoned the van after getting her overnight bag out of the back, leaving the doors open, stumbled down, or up, the beach until coming to the steps, where she emptied her bag, but took the empty bag with her started up the steps, banged on the house, or Az did, returned to the beach, and drowned in the water.
I must admit, I'm having trouble believing that story. moo
I agree that Chamberlain's supposition about the items "carried in a backpack" and dropped on the beach, rather than washing ashore, throws a huge monkey wrench into the "accidentally being swept away by tides" scenario, and might wholly negate it. I think every avenue should be explored by LE; I would hate to think a stranger did them harm, and has gotten away with it. Even the poor fiance is saying he cannot help but feel things do not add up.....
