And how do you ( trooper) know Connie's carers statement is 100% untruthful?
I prefer to take on board stories that have some empirical backup to them.. that is, some corroboration, some similar story from another source, but most of all, at the very least, some agreement from the SA and NSW police in this instance , rather than one junkie telling a whole lot of stories, to a newspaper long long after the event and leaving out the interesting part where this story teller is himself a user, a buyer of, and a holder of a sellable amount of illegal substances.. ie. junkie.
Based on these circumstances , Ilk , it is , for me, the rational thing to do , to dismiss the core of the story and all its peripheral embroidery as nonsense, HOWEVER... I make a proviso..
It is entirely believable to me, that possibly Connie took a call from the person impersonating Karlie, using Karlie's phone, Connie gets told this story, ( the $25,000, the bounty, the running etc ) , tells the carer who then absorbs the story as coming from Karlie, which is reasonable..and how awful it must have been for Karlies family to now find out that those calls to her mum, and possibly to her Gran, and other members of the family were not made by Karlie, but by a person who fooled them, deliberately , into thinking it was Karlie.. there is something so hideously creepy in that whole event , it defies words . Because, once the detectives determing Karlie's date of death, naturally, any calls after that, supposedly from Karlie are most decidedly not and therefore are part of the crime scenario in and of themselves ) ...
that's the only proviso I make concession to. But the storyteller hasn't explained, as yet, where this story he tells came from at all. Until then..... I call ********e on it.