This article is a bit confusing, but I’ve been wondering about the period of 6 weeks Alex Cox left his garage door open. Is this maybe this fall? Until he came back and moved into his new wife’s house, where his body was found? So maybe Alex went to Arizona after moving to Rexburg and then left in haste (leaving his garage door up) and finally came back in December? To grab his stuff and move in with new wife? MOO
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7869201/amp/Mom-missing-Idaho-kids-screamed-killer-brother-brought-disgrace-family.html
Self said that at one point Cox was away from the four-bedroom single story home for some six weeks — and left the garage door open for the entire time.
'It's a good job we are a quiet law-abiding community because he had a lot of stuff in there and none of it got stolen.'
When he returned to the home — which is now empty and up for rent — he moved everything out of the garage so he could fit the truck in. 'I think he just wanted to get straight into the house without having to see any of his neighbors,' said Self.
I've decided that anything I see the Daily Mail say that isn't reported elsewhere is an error or made up. Initially that was based on some errors they made on this case, but then I went to this site that I've found to be a good indication of what to expect from sites claiming to be reporting news and found that they, with much more input than I have had, agreed with my impression.
Daily Mail - Media Bias/Fact Check