MOO: Let’s remember that the person who called this a “dinner party” was NP/FD, right? Do we know for sure this was even a party? Or was it just some people over at the house that night? Was FD even there?
We have also been told that MT was returning a purse left at the party the next morning. And so IMO we envision perhaps some sort of party purse, the type of small clutch that one would take for an evening out. All of this could be a shaded description of events, potentially purposeful misleading.
MOO, that we shouldn’t make too many assumptions about what went on that night based solely on the description proffered by NP. LE has surveillance video of 4JC driveway from JC neighbor cameras so must have a record of which cars arrived and left and when, that night. Of course, some could have hiked in to the party via the back entrance, carrying their purses with them....