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According to this timeline, Sam was confirmed to be out of the apartment at 4:45 and at the gym. Ellen was still using her laptop at 4:46 (I feel like a lot hinges on this fact, where does it come from?) And then Sam is at the gym until 5:30, visually confirmed. Ellen did not answer a phone call at 5:24.
So either she was dead when he left the apartment and the computer usage is incorrect, or she was still alive but missed a phone call at 5:24 (in the bathroom perhaps? Or dead/dying?) At 5:30 he leaves the gym and by 5:44 he was being loud enough to attract attention from the neighbors. If he was the perp, that doesn't leave much time for the deed. That's assuming he was finished by the time he started attracting attention.
How did no one hear anything? A neighbor claims to have heard Sam the entire time he was trying to get into the apartment, but no one heard any struggle or screaming? If a stranger got her, it must have happened very quickly and quietly.
Did they estimate time of death later? If she'd been dead for awhile, I would hope that would be obvious. Did she normally lock the latch when home alone? How hard are those to circumvent, anyway? If she let someone in and they murdered her, how did it get relocked? How long does blood take to dry? How dry was her blood?
The bruises on her neck are fascinating, but she had previously searched For "suffocation." Could she have tried to cut off her own air supply? Why didn't she just take the rest of her sleeping pills and klonopin?
Why did she hate her job so much? Why were her parents weird about her taking meds to feel better? What time that day were grades due? Did she finish submitting grades or not?
This case is so bizarre...there's not enough evidence for anything really, and yet something happened! I wonder why they haven't changed it to Undetermined. That makes the most sense to me.
ETA: the TOD was estimated to be within the hour, and her phone was left in the bathroom. I'm real curious about that phone. Wonder what she was looking at last.