JL did some questionable indefensible things but I don’t think he’s lying here.
FBI first spoke to him by phone on November 4
They interviewed him in person on November 13
December 18 by phone they showed him the results of LinkedIn messages and photos.
This is when they asked about WhatsApp.
FBI knew plenty by then even that they had exchanged nude photos.
They were trying to pin down her last proof of life and last communication.
2:11 SM to JL ‘ I’m on wa”
2:39 JL responded to that message on LinkedIn
2:46 JL again responded to that message on LinkedIn
2:47 JL responded again to that message on LinkedIn by saying “ your weather looks nice”
I think JL was sitting there waiting for her to get on WA.
SM never responded to him again after 2:11
And at 2:26 BM texted SM “ Done headed back “
2:31 BM texted SM “ Did you leave?”
JMO
RBBM
MOO IMO
I agree with you and don’t think JL is lying here either. However, the timeline you outline brings into play (once again for me), the possibility of an accomplice.
I wonder what was happening with SM in the home after 2:11pm. SM stopped all communication with JL and BM after 2:11pm. As you pointed out, seems JL was waiting around for a response,
just as BM was.
Now, at first I thought SM could have been showering from 2:11p until BM got home and that is why she didn’t respond, but JL’s text messages in particular, lead one to believe that was not the case because he was reaching out to her and getting no response. If she had gotten into the shower, or had been doing anything else,
you would think she would have let JL know, or she would have responded to his texts after a few minutes (especially because they had been texting heavily up to that point that day). He even resorted to using what appears to be their coded text message relating to the weather and got no response from her.
I feel something happened as of 2:11pm and before BM got home. That’s about a 30 minute window.
MOO…per BM’s somewhat sloppy planning, I wonder if there wasn’t an accomplice that had breached the house before BM got there and refrained SM. This same accomplice could have been the one to crack the MB door frame and tranq her, thus doing the dirty work for BM.
I could see part of BM’s plan including being away from the house while his accomplice begins their plan against SM. Then BM would send out a string of texts to SM to normalize his alibi while he was away from the home. This way LE could see he was trying to reach her.
This removes BM from the scene occurring at the home between 2:11p and the time he got home.
However, it doesn’t entirely sync with BM’s actions in the minutes after he got home, but for me, there is that slight possibility he could have had an accomplice at the house during this timeframe. Then they both went about the rest of the plan once BM got home of cleaning up, staging, transporting and discarding the body. Just MOO.
Also, I strongly feel that BM’s text ‘Did you leave?’ was in reference to her afternoon bike ride. Even though he told LE she would bike in the morning, in actuality, I feel he knew (just as almost everyone else interviewed did as well) she rides in the afternoons. Therefore, I feel he was referring to her afternoon bike ride with that particular text message and it was a slip up. At no point in the AA did BM say he was expecting SM to go out Saturday afternoon, so why would he be asking if she left to go somewhere? The only known outing she did in the afternoons apparently, were her bike rides. All IMO.