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This is something we've hashed out MANY times in the past and for which there is no REASONABLE haziness at this point.
If we work RATIONALLY, like evidence in a court, then we observe the following facts:
1 the witnesses all agree that the keys were lost AND FOUND ...and no one suggests otherwise
2 the picture of the keys was sent to HF after previously having texted/talked/messaged him to say they were missing, which backs up the same thing the witnesses say, and demonstrates the keys as having been found
3 the fact that she absolutely left the house to go to her car to drive home (an action that is a known fact), shows she had the keys, as she would not have rationally left without keys
4 the ongoing dialogue with (SN?) by phone after she left (an action that is a known fact), who was trying to double-check that she was good to drive rather than impaired, and who received assurances of the same, demonstrates that both CM and (SN?) were acting in a manner that says she had her keys and was going to drive herself home - which she could not have done, and would not have planned to do, without having keys to do so.
In total, the record is not hazy as to whether she had her keys when going to her car. It's very clear she did, and there is nothing that really casts any doubt on it. I don't think anyone involved in the case (witness, LE, anyone) has any thoughts that she was missing her keys, there is nothing to suggest they were missing at that point, and imo it would be a red herring and create needless confusion to inject such a fictional narrative into the discussion here.
I agree that she found her keys and that they were apparently walking toward their own cars in the garage, but as yet, I have not discounted the fact that in that walk she made the decision to go with EA. Maybe she was frustrated with her BF. We know EA was frustrated. Perhaps in their long term friendship she made that one time decision to spend some time with him and EA pushed it beyond what she was ready for.
We have no evidence to the contrary and while evidence against is not necessarily evidence for, I see no reason to discount that plausibility.
MOO