Recent content by TB Rhine

Maggie, Just now seeing this after many months away. Why does the family believe so strongly that Aria was murdered? Could she have simply overdosed, then been left in the park by friends (acquaintances, a customer or coworker, etc.) in order to avoid being implicated? Was the hair and...

I thought it was established that she regularly went out there for smoke breaks.

I found this out later, of course, via additional searching. Hey, what wonderful information to maybe have included in the "Facts" thread! *sound of a wet fart* The accident (or suicide) theory still doesn't make any kind of intuitive sense to me. We're talking about a tall metal tank with a...

I think maybe it's an inverse of the classic scenario where a young single mom gets a new man in her life, only for him to let her know in no uncertain terms that whatever life they could have together has no room for her child in it. In this case I think it was the other way around: the new...

I don't buy the skinny dipping theory, especially if that video linked above is authentic. There's just nothing about that setting that would lend itself to that, either as a private activity or in the context of a romantic encounter. Also don't buy the suicide theory. She was on the roof; why...

I don't buy the skinny-dipping theory. How would Elisa even know the tank was up there, let alone get the idea to go swimming in it? The only way that works, in my mind, is if someone familiar with the building (an employee, long-term guest, or maybe a local who lived nearby and was friendly...

Or maybe ask if she ever sat for a photo session with a kind of creepy guy who dressed her in a fur coat and told her to look scared? Seems like you'd remember something like that, even if you couldn't, say, look at a photo of Alcala and confirm with absolute certainty that he was the guy...

I'm no match for your "keen" "wit."

This whole thing reminds me a bit of that damn Serial podcast. Misty's BF is the "Adnan" -- he makes the most sense as the killer, since he's got an obvious motive (Misty was two-timing him with the victim), but as far as I know there's not a single scrap of evidence tying him to it. Yet most...

He could probably cut a deal, especially if a lot of family members are implicated (folks who "alibied" the brother's van, etc.) I do suspect it's a situation where a lot of people were either involved, or chose to look the other way/help out with the cover-up afterward.

They weren't concerned 'cause they were too busy being the lookouts while the manager's brother/whoever absconded with poor Jess. The more I consider it, the more I think this really is a case of the most obvious explanation probably being the right one. Manager's brother owns a vehicle like...

If it's not "up for debate" whether or not she was intoxicated, why put it in quotation marks? This seems to be more of a loaded issue for you than it is for me. I only bring it up in referring to the facts of the case, or in reference to the idea (expressed by some) that, if in fact Lauren was...

But aren't the details of that story -- or what we know of those details -- what we've been debating all this time? She's seen wandering around town, clearly intoxicated, including on video cameras. The cameras and eyewitnesses also place her with CR (who claims to have been blackout drunk and...

Doesn't sound too unreasonable, given the high propensity of such stores to be targeted by armed robbers, etc.

And money. I always thought the "amnesia defense" was less about concealing something specific -- as in, "I was over here, doing this, rather than over there, committing a murder" -- and more about trying to avoid making up a detailed story, each and every detail of which is a lie in itself...