The phone call to Colleen is so crucial to this crime. Colleen has, already once , contacted police and put Karlie on the missing persons register.. the news of this must have travelled fast, I'm thinking facebook which I think was clearly monitored by the killers, tracked diligently, because the myth of Karlie being still alive and cooking a roast dinner somewhere in suburban Australia was absolutely paramount to the killers and Karlie's mum and family and friends alike. Everyone needed that narrative to be working smoothly, some for peace of mind, some for retaining liberty.. both powerful reasons. And someone persuaded Colleen then , at that point, to withdraw the request for the searching for Karlie and Khandalyce.. someone very persuasive . All thru this, Colleen is legally the only one , being next of kin, who can claim Karlie to the police as a missing person, a technical point , but one not lost on the killers.
So by the time it gets round to Colleen 's illness becoming the major issue, the family, the friends, up the nature of the messages to who they think is still Karlie.. to urgent and imperative, somewhere out there they believe, and have believed since the time Colleen withdrew the original missing persons request, that Karlie is contactable thru this particular medium, because it worked before.
That Karlie and Khandalyce are dead, murdered, buried in Belanglo and a suitcase somewhere in SA never crosses their mind, but this is the terrible fact.
And because of the urgent nature of these messages, the killers decide they have to contact Colleen, because it isn't convenient for Karlie to be officially reported missing for all the normal reasons that your average murderer would have. Questions would be asked, stuff would be checked. Electronic footprints would be tracked all over the place.
So.. after much rehearsal ( my opinion ) ..between them, the voice and nature of Karlie is retrieved from the grave in the person of the female half of this enterprise.. she has a good idea of how to do it, it has to be shortish, but not sharp, it has to be utterly persuasive but not frightening, it has to be totally believable , so believable that Colleen offers to send money to Karlie's account, but this is just a byproduct of the call, a bonus, .. the main thing is Karlie and Khandalyce must be believed to be alive and well and contented together somewhere in Australia and without worry or problems that need a families assistance or advice.
And if this works, Colleen doesn't lift that handset and dial the NT police number.
And apparently... it did work. .. it does work as 4 more years roll on.. . and then.....
