I was just thinking about this, HE had just reconnected with the date, who is from high school. The roommate is from work. I thought this was their first date. I guess I am just a bit confused at how the roommate was the connection to the date and not LE. In the police report it says they were unable to identify the date. Clearly they later did. I know many won't agree and that is fine, we all have different opinions, but something seems off. I guess I don't understand how the roommate would have the dates number or why TE would go to the roommate for the dates number. And the LE spoke to the roommate, but couldn't identify the date, at that time.
We can't forget too that the roommate wasn't even home at the shared apartment on December 17-19 and beyond, right?
Who did the roommate live with (I wonder) prior to HE moving in two weeks earlier? Had someone else recently moved out and HE filled that person's place to share the rent? Or did HE join two people already sharing the apartment? Why, I wonder, are these simple circumstances so hard to understand? How much is the rent? How can a student and/or entry level person afford this apartment, especially alone or even between two?
Considering the apartment was empty, wouldn't it be natural to conduct a wellness check immediately for HE over at her apartment (as was suggested earlier in the thread) especially since HE didn't answer her phone?
Not a single mention of the apartment (unless an article/comment has been released since I read comments on WS two hours ago - :scared

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Either someone was at the apartment which would explain why no one rushed over there, or, what?
What's another reason?
Adding more questions ~ a few threads back, several posters stated with confidence that TE acquired the date's identity via the joint phone records because he had received the photo the date was responsible for taking.
It was explained the photo was sent to TE's phone using the date's phone or the date's phone to HE's phone and then onto TE's phone.
Peeps posted that either of those picture routes/records would allow TE to identify the date and find his phone number through the picture data.
Now we've heard that TE found out who the date was through the roommate (BW) who contacted SS (the date) who contacted TE (the father).
After TE spoke to the date over the phone briefly, he put any suspicions about him to rest. Um, uh-huh.