Honestly, I assumed more people did, given that Liz was pretty social. But you know how Sergio talks? Very quietly and slowly. And he said, word by word, that the people who knew about the sale were themselves, people from Liz’s work, Liz’s parents and his mom. Then he proceeded to talk about where and when they put up the ads. Here:
14:21 - he mentions exactly who knew about the garage sale. You can read via the transcript.
There were a couple of things that remain unclear to me in the interview:
6:50 - (when the nest alarm is called on his phone because the police broke the house door) “I told my coworkers, I told my father, I have to go” (they were just setting up for work, he said). Then he calls Rosemary and Bob who also get an alarm with the Nest settings - and they don’t know either, they are driving.
8:34 (he is driving and reviewing the Nest, sees the police tape). “And the first person I called was my dad”. Now, dad is at work, Sergio just left and is driving home, so do Rosemary and Bob. It is a little bit odd to call dad who stayed behind and surely can’t tell more than Sergio has just seen.
So it might be a comfort call in the moment of panic. No one behaves logically in a crisis. Sergio’s behavior is fear-driven; he is afraid to hear bad news. Also, because I used to call my dad with virtually everything - to me this call indicates how close SB and OB were when Liz was killed. It means, super close, right? You call your helper, your sound piece, your source of strength.
Very strange that a couple of years later, you can so easily throw the same person under the bus. With full speed, and OB is not yet accused in any way. He is just in the group that hasn’t been cleared, right?
But it is full speed, because all that we know about OB, the philanderer, the checks that bounced, has only one source. The Nuelles never discussed it. Det. Richie is very professional. Sergio has effectively sunk dad’s reputation.
The same dad that he called on his way to the horror scene two or three years ago. (After the checks bounced, and after SB was likely aware of his infidelities. But, Dad is dad). And if you later start suspecting that your father was somehow involved, it should totally crush you, right? But does it look so?
Unless Sergio belongs to the type of people who, when their main attachment changes (and he was already with Amber two years later, so life focus shifted), throw old attachments that are now unnecessary out of the window? Out of sight, out of mind. And btw, I seriously suspect that SB has this trait. When he works for the dad, they are emotionally close. Once he becomes independent, has another job, another family and life, he stops talking with dad and tells the whole world his dad’s story.
Well, Dad’s behavior might deserve it. Perhaps SB was not happy with dad but his work depended on dad so he had to clench his teeth and be nice to him. But that call, “Dad, something happened to Liz”, indicates emotional closeness.
Also: in the very beginning of the interview, I paid attention that when L and S first met at Sam Houston, for a year they were just friends.
Did they both date different people? Was one of them not free? Could someone “dropped for either Liz or Sergio” bear a grudge? Were these people checked?
