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But also the truck thing has always bothered me. She used Kaine's truck that day because she wanted to bring the fold up cardboard science fair project home. She didn't collect the project at 845am when she left because the science fair was still going on then. She didn't collect it after school when she could have driven Kyron home at the same time - who knows why.
She (allegedly) emailed the teacher sometime after 120pm to ask when she could come get the project... probably she was not expecting the teacher to be checking her email during class, so was she really expecting to pick it up that day (the ostensible reason for driving the truck)? And if she was expecting the teacher to respond right away, why didn't she ask if the teacher could keep Kyron from getting on the bus as she'd be at the school anyway and they could ride home together?
Hmm...thanks for sharing the thinking...and the questions
1. She took the truck to pickup the project
2. She didn't pick it up at 10. Did other parents? why didn't she?)
3. She wrote to ask when she could pick it up (when? after 1:20?)
4. At the very least she could have picked it up when class was over
So, if she was going to do shopping from 8:45 on, expecting to pick up the project at 10, and IF she did say she was shopping until 10:10, then perhaps the reality OR her purpose for saying that was so that she could say, "Oh, I didn't get out of the store in time enough to arrive at the school by 10 and didn't want to disrupt the class?" BUT...if she had showed up at 10:10...might someone have asked, "Is Kyron with you?"
What was in that email sent to the teacher? AND when was it actually written? "Did it say, sorry...had doctors appt couldn't get to school at 10, when can I pick up the project?" or "Sorry, couldn't get out of the grocery store to pick up the project by 10 etc."
But why would she ask when she could pick it up? Certainly she knew the pace at the school? Certainly the school sent out info as to when the parents had to have the projects at the school and when they could pick them up and take them home? I wonder if there was a sheet of paper with that info pegged up on some board at the home? (stuck with a magnet on the refrigerator like at our house when the kids were little?)
At the very least, she must have known the project could be picked up after classes that day.
I'm wondering... If that email was written after 1:20, surely there is no way that she thought the teacher "might not" read it when it came UNLESS she had asked the teacher, "When do you get emails" AND knew she wouldn't read it until a certain point in time? What point in time? After class was over? By then it would be too late to say "You can pick it up after class today?" i.e. Terri might get the return email at that particular time and be able to get to the school before the janitors had cleaned and locked up.
Finally... IF that email was sent at 1:20 or afterward, was the purpose for Terri to see if the teacher would respond with, "Do you have Kyron?" or "How did Kyron's doctor's appt. go?" Did she write that email hoping that as soon as it was read, the s**t would start hitting the fan on Kyron's whereabouts? Did Terri know what time Kaine would be home that day and try to plan this to surprise him at that time?
And then I think about the Kaine and the baby walking to the bus stop with Terri following behind. I wonder if Kaine did that as a normal thing, if Terri followed as a normal thing? Or did Terri suggest Kaine take the baby for a walk to the bus stop -- knowing that as soon as he found out Kyron wasn't on the bus, worry would set in and she wanted him to have the blunt force hit him?
Is it possible that Terri was hoping to begin the whole crisis earlier when the email was sent? But then we don't know when the email was sent OR are we positive it was? and do we know what it contained? or from where it was sent?
I'd say the timing of the email and its content is fairly important IF there was one.