But you know, in this digital age where almost every store has surveillance cameras and our presence can so easily be electronically tracked via cell phone pings, key card swipes and even traffic cams on well-traveled roads, it's not so easy to deny your whereabouts for a certain time period. Think about it - you were somewhere you shouldn't be, doing something you shouldn't do and have to account for it in some way. Can't say shopping because of the cameras, fast food places use them too, and most people would remember serving someone in a sit down restaurant. Even most community libraries or internet cafes have some sort of electronic tracking systems for their users. Some major roads have tolls or e-passes that log us in and out of their systems. So really, it's a simplistically brilliant alibi, if it is indeed a lie. How in the world can LE disprove her story unless somebody, somewhere can attest that they saw her elsewhere during that critical time.
If she says she was driving the rural roads at the same time her cell phone pings or an eyewitness place her there, then there is nothing to disprove at this point. But if Kyron's body or evidence linked to his disappearance is found in the vicinity of those roads beyond what would be her normal territory, then she's going to have a big problem because she's placed herself there with a fishy story -- very fishy, imo -- about a toddler with an earache and no one but a two year-old to say that all she did was drive around for an hour-and-a-half.
I wish we knew whether or not she told LE about the ride from the start, or if she came up with it after they confronted her because cell phone pings placed her there.
My other question is if anyone else knew about the baby's earache. I read that there was no mention of it on Facebook. Did Kaine know? Her mother? Anyone she talked to at school that morning?
The answers wouldn't prove that she's telling the truth, but IF she's guilty, they'd give us an idea whether or not she planned his disappearance. On the one hand, if she plotted his disappearance, and part of her plot would take her to that area, she knew in advance that she might have to explain being there if, say, an eyewitness spotted her, or her cell pings told on her. So, it seems she would've been sure to mention the baby's illness to someone to back up her story later.
On the other hand, if whatever happened was a spur of the moment event, or she planned it on the fly, e.g., something snapped the night before and she acted on an impulse, then I would expect to see holes in her alibi(s) because she didn't have time to plan carefully and cover all of her bases.
Otherwise, she's just really dumb. Or totally innocent.
ETA: Akashana, I see now that I missed your point. :sheesh: You meant that the alibi was a good way to place her
away from a crime scene rather than near it. But, as you stated, she'd run the risk of an eyewitness spotting her somewhere else besides the rural roads where she claimed to be. I was thinking along the lines that someone with malicious intentions, lacking a way to prove she was anywhere besides the crime scene, would opt to explain why she
was in the vicinity.