A few things about this story make no sense to me.
(1) Brandon is in enough trouble to call for the police despite having an active warrant. Okay. Must be pretty bad for him to do so. Yet for some reason he mentions nothing to his brother or his brother's girlfriend about what this trouble...
First time posting to Websleuths. I just want to say that you all have done a tremendous amount of work on this. Kudos.
I still don't understand why someone would commit this crime at the church. I've read the theory that the SP may have felt that this was the perfect chance to catch MB...