Ohhh good points.
Did LT have pets? I don’t thinks so from memory of reports.
Was LT sensitive to smells? Could that have also been a potential reason to monitor bins/bin areas? Stop neighbours bins from getting manky cause she didn’t like it?
I’m assuming as the unit just sold there would have been the routine pest inspections and if there were pest issues they would have had to been treated prior to sale?
All accounts from neighbours suggest she was quite routine about her movements around the bins, so although would make sense if she removed rubbish as she created it, wouldn’t the attendance to the bin be more random/ sporadic or even more frequent if that was the case?
I've waited for an email or a phone call to verify my 'status' and nothing from WS so far....should I contact again or wait for a response....
-I'm certain LT didn't have a dog - I never saw her walking one around the area. Cat - I went to her house once and didn't see one, but doesn't mean she didn't have one.
-LT wouldn't have been able to smell the bins from her unit; too far away.
-LT's unit complex was in tip top shape and she attended to less routine issues before she sold. She had the area (where you saw police sitting underneath the shelter) pressure-sprayed right before she put the unit for sale. I would imagine she had pest inspections done regularly too.
-I would see LT go to the bin and put small bags in the bin; sometimes more than once per day. Sometimes very early in the morning (ie 4.30 or 5am).
-I doubt LT could see the bin area on Clayton Lane from her kitchen window (that's the window at the back of the complex). I would often see her head at her back window, especially at early evening, and there is no way she could see the bins at that angle.
LT's unit was spartan but neat and well-kept (from real estate photos). She had a white Mazda 121 (bubble car) from the 90s which was also in great condition. I was sad to see, after police removed the crime scene tape from railings and the orange 'witches hat' thing outside her door', that someone removed her car and parked it on Clayton Lane as always garaged it and never parked it on Clayton Lane. I thought, 'Lesley would not have approved that!' I saw her at her own bin area more than any other resident (including the other elderly person who lived in her complex) but she was the body corporate president. And being an ex-teacher she ran a tight ship over there. I would see a man from her complex regularly smoking on the driveway area at the back and he was on friendlish speaking terms with LT because I saw them chatting pleasantly (I was surprised at this because another ex-tenant had not very nice things to say). I doubt he would ever leave his butts there as 1. I never saw him flick them and 2. LT would know it was him. Im guessing LT told him he can smoke there as there are common body corporate by-laws about not smoking on verandahs and LT was the sort who would let him know straight away where and how to smoke. Anyway, she wasn't down regularly picking up butts. But what I did notice was she kept the recycle bins to the right of the property and the general garbage at the left (looking at the back from Clayton Lane) and she was missing about four days and someone had already moved those yellow-lidded bins next to the general waste bins. I thought that was so weird that someone took charge of that so soon.
Another thing you don't see from reports. There was a 'secret path' used to gain access from Clayton Lane to Maryvale St. If you look at the back, behind the left of the general bin area, there's an access point through the hedge to the neigbouring complex to their driveway area. She didn't like people using that AT ALL and it caused angst for LT and she lectured people about it. I'm not cutting through out of respect for her, at least until her remains are found and she's had a proper burial.
She was very excited to be selling her unit. She prepared for the sale. I didn't see her as much early evenings in the last few months before she sold the unit (and went missing) nor did I see her driving as much. (Edited to add) When I heard directly from police she sold her unit to go into a retirement facility, it made sense about not seeing her drive as much. Also, she had four flights to walk up to her unit. I assumed she had been spending time at the new place (communal areas...bingo, elderly folks night time activities) to get used to it before moving in.
). Did she have something in her hand during her twice daily walks or not?
