While we wait for news from "Dog" (per @Fireflye) or the active search going on today.... Thought I'd share a couple scenarios as to how ED died 8/27 that I don’t think have been offered before. If I am wrong, I apologize in advance for posting a duplicate theory… So the following is just IMO!
1. Escape from the Van after Restaurant:
On the return from Merry Piglet restaurant to the campground, GP tells BL they are done, she wants to end their relationship and go home. BL’s rage escalates to even greater heights. GP can't take BL's yelling and rage anymore. She opens the passenger door and thinking it’s her only escape hatch (maybe he is threatening to kill her now that she has "broken up"), she jumps out of the moving van to escape. This presumes there is no one else on the road to witness her fall and violent tumble, so the odds of this are very, very slim if not impossible. But carrying on... BL quickly stops the van, backs up, finds GP on the side of road. She is dead from a fatal head injury. He quickly analyzes the situation and grabs their tent (or tarp from the top of the van), wraps her up, puts her in the van.
2. Uncontrolled Rage after Restaurant:
The raging that started while they were at the Merry Piglet, continues in the van. Perhaps, as in scenario #1, GP tells BL she is leaving him and this whole thing is over. Shortly after leaving the restaurant (e.g. 1-5 miles) BL can’t take it anymore and has lost control of himself and his rage. He pulls off on a dirt road, parks behind a rock formation, gets GP out of the van, and kills her. Like with scenario #1, BL comes to his senses, analyzes the situation and wraps her in a tarp and puts her into the van.
In both these scenarios, GP ends up wrapped in a tarp or tent in the back of the van. BL decides to dump her body where it was found (not sure if there is access to that location other than by foot). Perhaps he did this under the cover of darkness that night (the night of 8/27). And certainly, it would have been BL in the van closing the back door at 6/6:30 per the video we’ve seen… his sandals outside. BL then heads off for a hike early on 8/28 to clear his head or get far away from the situation as he can. Perhaps he plans on not returning to the van, but over the course of 8/28-29, decides to drive it home starting 8/30.
On the way home, BL disposes of the tent / tarp along with other incriminating evidence.
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The key reason I don’t see these scenarios working that well though is cadaver dogs. Can we presume LE used cadaver dogs to sniff the van when they had custody of it? And if GP’s body had been in the van, even for a short drive, you’d think the dogs would have sniffed that out. Unless being wrapped tightly in a tarp or tent would preclude a cadaver dog from finding evidence in the van? Does anyone know the answer to these questions that could derail these scenarios?
1. Escape from the Van after Restaurant:
On the return from Merry Piglet restaurant to the campground, GP tells BL they are done, she wants to end their relationship and go home. BL’s rage escalates to even greater heights. GP can't take BL's yelling and rage anymore. She opens the passenger door and thinking it’s her only escape hatch (maybe he is threatening to kill her now that she has "broken up"), she jumps out of the moving van to escape. This presumes there is no one else on the road to witness her fall and violent tumble, so the odds of this are very, very slim if not impossible. But carrying on... BL quickly stops the van, backs up, finds GP on the side of road. She is dead from a fatal head injury. He quickly analyzes the situation and grabs their tent (or tarp from the top of the van), wraps her up, puts her in the van.
2. Uncontrolled Rage after Restaurant:
The raging that started while they were at the Merry Piglet, continues in the van. Perhaps, as in scenario #1, GP tells BL she is leaving him and this whole thing is over. Shortly after leaving the restaurant (e.g. 1-5 miles) BL can’t take it anymore and has lost control of himself and his rage. He pulls off on a dirt road, parks behind a rock formation, gets GP out of the van, and kills her. Like with scenario #1, BL comes to his senses, analyzes the situation and wraps her in a tarp and puts her into the van.
In both these scenarios, GP ends up wrapped in a tarp or tent in the back of the van. BL decides to dump her body where it was found (not sure if there is access to that location other than by foot). Perhaps he did this under the cover of darkness that night (the night of 8/27). And certainly, it would have been BL in the van closing the back door at 6/6:30 per the video we’ve seen… his sandals outside. BL then heads off for a hike early on 8/28 to clear his head or get far away from the situation as he can. Perhaps he plans on not returning to the van, but over the course of 8/28-29, decides to drive it home starting 8/30.
On the way home, BL disposes of the tent / tarp along with other incriminating evidence.
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The key reason I don’t see these scenarios working that well though is cadaver dogs. Can we presume LE used cadaver dogs to sniff the van when they had custody of it? And if GP’s body had been in the van, even for a short drive, you’d think the dogs would have sniffed that out. Unless being wrapped tightly in a tarp or tent would preclude a cadaver dog from finding evidence in the van? Does anyone know the answer to these questions that could derail these scenarios?
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