some one has to pay her phone bill...unless she was using her fake IDs? paying cash? unclear to me all along if she had other relationships despite her young age. There should be some $ trail associated with her.
Actually phoning and texting makes up far less phone use these days. Especially with kids. No doubt her main communication was WhatsApp/ Snapchat/ Instagram or whatever the latest one people using is. Hypothetically, she wouldn't need a phone contract to keep in contact with people if she wanted to. She'd just need access to WiFi.
Could she really have been in the car trunk, in the heat of the LA summer, where it routinely reaches 100+ degrees, for 8 months?
I'd think the remains would have been totally decomposed by then. I don't see how they'd see a tattoo on her finger or recognise much of anything like that.
Maybe she was stashed someplace cooler for much of the time?
The condition of the body and any skin after 6+ months would be heavily dependent on the environment. I don't have the expertise on decomposition or the data about the conditions the frunk created to speak with any authority.
However, there are circumstances in which skin could survive that long. For example if the body went through desiccation and essentially mummified. Or if, say, her hand was elevated and reached the dry decay stage intact, the skin would become leathery and could preserve the tattoo.
It took a good week for the police to mention anything identifiable about the body before she was named. They didn't say a anything about gender, age, race, hair etc. plus the confusion on whether she was intact. Which suggests to me that they couldn't be immediately certain about those features.
But I still have a hard time believing they'd have a body in a car registered to D4, for 8 months, just abandoned at some point at the end of his own block. and never bother to dump it somewhere without his own name connected to it so blatantly.
I also have a hard time believing it. But for the fact they did dump his car on the street outside his house and took off for a multi-month tour.

It is even less logical that D4vd was not fully aware she was in there.
If they just dumped it up in the Angeles Mountains, next to her hometown, everyone would think she went back home and met trouble there.
Yup. There are endless places they could have dumped her and, even if they were investigating, or there were rumours/suspicion about her connection with D4vd. It would be so much less likely to have been publically linked to him or successfully prosecuted.
It almost makes me think that D4 wanted the body to be connected to him. If he walks away from this with no charges, like some attorneys are predicting, then he will be a superstar.
No... I think he might just be that stupid.
Being maybe connected to a mysterious murder could (arguably) be an aura amplifier. Being exposed as a pedophile who groomed a child later found dead in your car is not, imo, marketable. It's a genuine security concern for the parents of his fanbase, conviction or not.