I am going through the events of 12/26 in my head. One thing that has always struck me is Fleet White's claim that he searched the basement, including the wine cellar, on 12/26, prior to JBR's body being found. He says he saw nothing there. If, as some believe, there was in fact NOTHING there when FW searched the basement, and then after JR's mysterious "mail' disappearance, JBR's body appeared there - meaning that JR moved her from an undisclosed location to the wine cellar in order for him to "find" her - then where WAS her body during that time? Where would JR have kept her body while there were dozens of people at his home, including police, investigating this "kidnapping"? Why even bother moving it at all, in fact?[/QUOTE)
What if Arndt had not asked JR to take others with him and search the house? The dogs were on standby. No call had come in. Arndt was waiting for additional backup. Let's wonder what might have happened if her backup had arrived and no search inside had taken place. But first, remember that JR was not able to go missing until just after the time had passed for the call. And according to later reports by Fleet, JB'S body was not visible in the wine cellar. If the dogs would have been brought in right after 10 am, they would have found JBR immediately no matter where she would have been. If "stashed" somewhere, surely an arrest of the Rs. I have a hard time believing PR would have made that call intentionally if she knew JB'S body was stashed somewhere and should have either been found by arriving officers or at least by a complete LE search of the house, likely with the assist of the dogs after the bogus call never came in, especially if she was involved in writing the RN.
I have to believe that IF the call to police was made purposefully to police by a conspiring PR they assumed police would respond and think the kidnappers meant the call would come "tomorrow" being the 27th, giving them some sort of opportunity to get JB'S body removed from the home.
Since that didn't happen, if JB'S body might have been found then during another search of the premises in the wine cellar where Fleet said he had seen nothing, I would think LE might have looked at Fleet very suspiciously.
So wouldn't that have been a good reason for JR to try to "relocate" her body after it was looking like LE intended to stay camped out at their home and not afford them an opportunity to remove her body?
Also, JR said right away, it has to be an inside job. Once the R's realized they had no chance to get JB'S body out of the house and Fleet had said he inspected the wine cellar and saw nothing, it was the best place for possibly incriminating FW.
Maybe JR thought FW might have left some forensic evidence there when checking. And there was JR'S comment about the killer not meaning to kill her because he tried to keep her warm with blanket ( or something to that effect).