I have wondered that. I can see a scenario of SS automatically picking up her phone when it rang and one of the men panicking and grabbing it or telling her to hang up. Then realizing it could cause suspicion telling her to call back and threatening her to act natural. Funny because I have seen this played out many times in movies and tv. JMO
When I consider all we know about the phone call it tells me she wasn't forced to say what she said to her Mother and she wanted to spend more time with them before returning home. Here's why I feel this way
We know Savannah and two of the men left the bar a little after 2:30 a.m. because there's a clock in one of the pictures showing the time. Also we know Savannah was walking with one of the men separate from the other man and had her arm around his arm.
The Mother, Ellen, says she calls Savannah about 2:30 a.m. and in one of her statements she said around 2:45 she called Savannah. This tells me Savannah hadn't been traveling with the men for very long when she talked with her Mother.
The Mother explains that she started the conversation scolding Savannah for not being home and Savannah hangs up but then calls back. Mom explains to media she thinks she hung up because of Moms tone when asking her why she wasn't home.
Savannah tells her Mother she is with friends having fun and will be home later in the morning, I promise. Seems if Savannah was going out to eat or to her car she would have told her Mom that. She would have said, I'm going out to eat with friends and will be home soon. Or I'm being driven to my car and will be home soon. She didn't say these things and what she did say leaves a lot of hours before she may be home. Morning is until noon and it was around 3:a.m. when they talked.
The way the Mom worded what Savannah said to her was strange to me because it does leave so many questions as to just what time Savannah was saying she would be home. Mom does say that she thought Savannah would be home by 8 ish when the Mom woke up that morning.
We don't know what time her Mom needed the car and it's also has been said Savannah had a court date she had to be to that day. What time was this and is this report accurate? I can't recall if this was in video or a written in a media report.
All of the things I've mentioned above tells me Savannah left with the men and her intention was to do something with one of them or all of them for an undisclosed exact amount of time before returning home.
Also we have the conflicting reports by Mom saying Savannah sounded fine but then in another report saying Savannah was very intoxicated. Now we have Dad saying Savannah had been making very poor decisions for a while. Not his exact words and he did not explain so that we can understand just what he was telling us.
I have to consider the fact Savannah may have been very intoxicated and that leaves so many possibilities as to what she may have been thinking and why she did what she did. Was she feeling rebellious for some reason?
It makes no sense with what we do know that she would agree to travel that far with these men and leave her car in Lexington but if she was highly intoxicated it may have left her unable to make decisions that were in her best interest. From what I know, I do think she was thinking well enough to not go that far and when the Mom and her talked she had plans to do more with a man or the men but had no idea she would be going to a location over an hour a way. If these men kidnapped her, this most likely was premeditated. Have they done something like this before? Rape or gang rape and not murder but this time it all went way to far. Because it seems they've covered their tracks so well leaves me thinking even more so this isn't their first time covering up a crime.
Everything I've mentioned above is a combination of my opinions and facts and the facts have been discussed before and a link was provided. I'm hoping I worded this well enough that it shows when what I said is my opinion.