This is all MOO so take it for whatever it's worth.
The initial story when this all first broke and the Amber Alert was issued was DB went to bed at 10:30. The lights were off according to SB. When JI came home the window was busted, the lights were on, the front door was unlocked and the phones and BL were gone. Just given this, the thought is. . .intruder came in through the window sometime after 10:30pm, turned on the lights and took the phones and BL out through the front door, leaving it so that JI found it unlocked at 4am. Pretty straightforward.
Then it was the intruder couldn't have came through the window. Fair enough. . .so maybe the intruder tried the window, but ended up going through the front door that DB can't remember if she locked or not. Intruder turned on the lights and took the phones and BL back out the front door. Again, this implied that the intruder came in sometime after 10:30pm.
Now, we have that the lights being all on was an "exaggeration." Hmmmm. . .so are they trying to say that maybe DB doesn't remember if she left some lights on? But SB says the lights were off at 10:30pm. Well, maybe now it wasn't THAT many lights. It seems to me. . .all MOO. . .that they are trying to downplay that the intruder turned on the lights. Why?!!!! :banghead: Is it because they are trying to open up that timeline? Maybe "somebody" has an airtight alibi for 10:30pm to 4 am. Soooooo. . . .maybe BL disappeared before DB went to bed. Or at least that's what I think they are trying to throw out there to see if it sticks. It doesn't. :waitasec:
You can see how this is VERY different than the initial account that the intruder came in through the window, turned on the lights, took the phones and BL, exited the front door. . .all sometime after 10:30pm.
MOO!!!!!!
ETA- the important thing isn't what lights were on. . or how many were on. . or if JI said all the lights were on! What IS important is that initially it was implied that the intruder had to be the one that turned the lights one!!!! Now they are trying to move away from that implication.