A murder in a house with stabbing leaves a lot of blood and DNA. Even if you imitate Dexter with plastic tarp. And risk somebody coming home or to house. And then you have to move body out of house to bury.
So true. When I imagined him attacking her at his home, I always imagined it outside. But then how would he lure her at night into a more private part of the property? Difficult.
Charli's Mom and sister are posting about the law regarding false imprisonment. They seem to be landing on the side of her car as the place where he took control of her. KS that Charli would never jump out of a moving vehicle pregnant even in fear, because of stronger instinct not to harm baby.
btw, the police did do a full analysis of SC's phone records (per one of the MMA articles).
I am trying to figure out why the clothes were left in a fairly neat pile -- not scattered, and right off that dirt road. I have changed my mind about him wanting them to recover that jaw bone. There are comments from her family saying he believed that "no body" would protect him from prosecution (successful). Look at how Mo Monsalves is still a missing person. There are many cases where husbands and boyfriends have not been charged who were persons of interest, because the woman was not found, including in this state.
A jawbone meant that she was ruled deceased, which made for a huge shift in the case from the LE perspective, reclassified as homicide, etc.. I don't believe he wanted that at all. I think he wanted to get away with this and live, he thought, his life full of options. *warning graphic* It's possible the jawbone detached during transport or handling, possibly in the dark, and he missed it. There was blood on the ground there. Blood doesn't keep flowing. She was most likely either killed at that spot or taken out of the vehicle severely wounded or freshly deceased and placed on the ground, the night that it happened.
While the clothes were not hard to find, the jawbone was in the same area, but I don't think the same exact spot. It was found by a search after the police were clued in by the first find. It might have been somewhere she could be left and not easily seen.
I don't think Steven was with Phaedra or was the one who ran to check the smell up the river. I think that he searched with the family on 2/11, and by 2/13 when he was interiviewed, he said he was not joining them, because he felt hostility from them. He said he was "venturing out on my own." He would not likely have been with the party searching a few hours after he gave that interview, which was published by something like 4 PM, the clothes found a little before 6 PM.
He went down that road by himself on 2/11, twice, alone, while searching with the family, according to old post by fromtheladle. I have a feeling he then went back that night, Tuesday. By Wednesday BEFORE dark, searchers had found her torched vehicle. So I think Tuesday night is the most likely time frame for him to work under cover of darkness, which would make it possible for him to lose that bone (and fingernails) at the spot where she was either lying or buried.
