About the mysterious asterisks, nothing on my text. I checked my original (cut n paste) but I'll look again.
Well, I meant to have the hypothetical scenario be SC (or someone) using his Truck and NOT the SUV, to leave said trail. Sorry for being unclear.
I don't understand why Twin Fall would be the place to look. "...since that is where SC pointed LE at to prove his story." Can you clarify that? Do you mean that he seemed to imply that that's where something bad happened to Charlie? I just keep thinking, we have no evidence that Charlie was even there. The items found just seem tell fractured, conflicting, stories--to me, that says planted. Not to be trusted.
Using the SUV to plant clues would lend credence to SC and Charlie going to Keanae. If anyone saw the SUV traveling the road (on those curves, you aren't usually looking at the driver, just the car), SC could say that was when he and Charli were going to get his truck. I don't discount that another vehicle could be used.
If SC is trying to make everyone believe his story, so much so that he is planting evidence in a place where Charli should not be, then his story should also point to the place where she SHOULD be, and it wasn't his fault anything happened to her because he lost sight of her at that time (implying that something happened to her after he lost sight of her). The fact that he specifically mentions Twin Falls says (to me) that that is where to start looking. Especially since Twin Falls used to be a place where everyone is welcome (I think it still is, but it sure used to be).
If someone else is planting the items, trying to implicate SC, why?
By my thinking, we have the following possibilities:
Something happened to Charli before leaving with SC to Keanae-SC must have knowledge in that case.
Something happened to Charli at the place where SC got his truck "stuck"-SC must have knowledge in that case.
Something happened to Charli on the way home from where the truck was stuck-if between the truck location and Twin Falls, SC would have knowledge. If after Twin Falls, SC might or might not have knowledge.
Logically speaking, there is no reason for SC to plant anything near where his truck was "stuck" (I use quotes, since I don't know what that exactly means), as that would point to him being guilty.
If he did plant anything there, knowing there was nothing to find and assuming that everyone would consider him guilty and continue looking there, the next logical place to look would be where he indicated he last saw Charlie, thereby "proving" that she made it that far coming back (it doesn't prove that at all). Of course, anywhere from there back to Charli's house would be fair game, but Twin Falls would be the starting place to search. (he could have said "Jaws" or anyplace else, but didn't) Having a body in that area is the only thing that would really make SC's story make any sense. (If we take the dog out of the equation)
Again, approaching this from a logical angle (which may be all wrong), if Charli broke down between Twin Falls and home, something happened to her and her car was stripped and taken to the car graveyard, you would not likely find her body on the way back to Hana. It'd be dumped nearby. That's why I don't think it was some stranger who did this. People there don't kill for cars. People there don't kill someone abandoned on the side of the road, especially not one with a dog. The best I can think of was she was walking and someone hit her by accident, but then there's Nala again. No one would pick up the dog and take it somewhere if they hit a person. The dog is what does not fit for any other person attacking Charli. So those are out in my mind.
Or, the items were not planted at all, they just ended up where they were due to wind, or an altercation between Charli and whomever killed her, the dog running off with items and dropping them eventually, etc.
Wrapping up my long-winded response, if SC planted those items, Charli's body would have to be somewhere between Twin Falls and her home to make SC's story remotely believable. IMO