Starting this post for those who would like to respectfully engage in discussion and speculation of alternate theories regarding the death of NC.
Here is ONE possible alternate explanation:
July 2008 situation:
*BC/NC failed marriage
*NC has indicated she wants a separation/divorce
*NC had affairs and/or was having an affair
I don't think anyone would dispute the truth of first two statements. There is indication that we'll hear testimony and/or evidence to the claims made in the third statement, so for the purpose of this exercise lets assume we do and that the testimony/evidence is convincing. The three statements above, with no further embellishment of detail is a plausible scenario. By the time the defense finishes presenting its case, the jurists will probably agree with the 3 statements above.
presuming an ongoing NC/?? affair, it completely plausible that:
*?? was also married
*NC/?? "meetings" were pre-arranged by txt or email
*"meetings" would occur at a place where they would be unlikely to be caught
To this point, every starred statement is completely plausible. You could build a alternate explanation involving the accidental death of NC around those statements. Here is one:
1) NC had a prearranged meeting with ?? for the morning of July 12, sometime after 7:00, somewhere near where her body was found.
2) (optional angle) prior to or at around 1:00 on 7/11 BC intercepted or saw some communication relating to the meeting/location, on 7/11 he looked up what he thought was the the vicinity of the meeting location based on landmark or directions mentioned in the intercepted communication.
3) She left on foot for this meeting in her running gear around 7 AM on 7/12. Yes, NC drank a lot the night before and was up late and up ealry, but NC intended to keep this meeting.
4) For the "activity" NC is dressed only in what her body was found wearing: the sports bra - could have been left on for any number of reasons.
5) During the "activity" in the car of ?? NC is accidentally killed. (see Dr. Sheperd's testimony here.)
6) ?? panics, runs through the consequence of each course of action, and decides to dump her body and drive off - disposing of her clothes.
If optional 2) is part of the explanation, it would explain the map image found, but why wouldn't BC tell this to the CPD and clear himself? One reason could be that he did not want to implicate himself as spying on NC, and reasoned that the CPD would discover the txt mssg (wiped) or email (???) and figure this out themselves. Once it became apparent that CPD did not have or was ignoring any communication, he reasoned he was in even deeper trouble for withholding it. Since NC messages were wiped from phone (or email deleted/unavailable), there would be no way for BC to prove the message existed. Following this theory, BC also reasoned that since he did not kill NC he would not be convicted. If there is such a message, the defense may have decided to bring it up when its their turn for better effect vs cross of pros witnesses.
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Is there any evidence or testimony to date that would make the explanation I posted above impossible? I really am curious.
I am not claiming that is happened this way, just suggesting it as a possible explanation given the evidence and testimony to date. I have other possible theories/alternate explanations that I will post here as well. Some of those include BC as culpable or involved, some are variations of the one above. I just wanted to start with this one. If others have alternate explanations as well (BC guilty or not), I would love to hear them.
Here is ONE possible alternate explanation:
July 2008 situation:
*BC/NC failed marriage
*NC has indicated she wants a separation/divorce
*NC had affairs and/or was having an affair
I don't think anyone would dispute the truth of first two statements. There is indication that we'll hear testimony and/or evidence to the claims made in the third statement, so for the purpose of this exercise lets assume we do and that the testimony/evidence is convincing. The three statements above, with no further embellishment of detail is a plausible scenario. By the time the defense finishes presenting its case, the jurists will probably agree with the 3 statements above.
presuming an ongoing NC/?? affair, it completely plausible that:
*?? was also married
*NC/?? "meetings" were pre-arranged by txt or email
*"meetings" would occur at a place where they would be unlikely to be caught
To this point, every starred statement is completely plausible. You could build a alternate explanation involving the accidental death of NC around those statements. Here is one:
1) NC had a prearranged meeting with ?? for the morning of July 12, sometime after 7:00, somewhere near where her body was found.
2) (optional angle) prior to or at around 1:00 on 7/11 BC intercepted or saw some communication relating to the meeting/location, on 7/11 he looked up what he thought was the the vicinity of the meeting location based on landmark or directions mentioned in the intercepted communication.
3) She left on foot for this meeting in her running gear around 7 AM on 7/12. Yes, NC drank a lot the night before and was up late and up ealry, but NC intended to keep this meeting.
4) For the "activity" NC is dressed only in what her body was found wearing: the sports bra - could have been left on for any number of reasons.
5) During the "activity" in the car of ?? NC is accidentally killed. (see Dr. Sheperd's testimony here.)
6) ?? panics, runs through the consequence of each course of action, and decides to dump her body and drive off - disposing of her clothes.
If optional 2) is part of the explanation, it would explain the map image found, but why wouldn't BC tell this to the CPD and clear himself? One reason could be that he did not want to implicate himself as spying on NC, and reasoned that the CPD would discover the txt mssg (wiped) or email (???) and figure this out themselves. Once it became apparent that CPD did not have or was ignoring any communication, he reasoned he was in even deeper trouble for withholding it. Since NC messages were wiped from phone (or email deleted/unavailable), there would be no way for BC to prove the message existed. Following this theory, BC also reasoned that since he did not kill NC he would not be convicted. If there is such a message, the defense may have decided to bring it up when its their turn for better effect vs cross of pros witnesses.
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Is there any evidence or testimony to date that would make the explanation I posted above impossible? I really am curious.
I am not claiming that is happened this way, just suggesting it as a possible explanation given the evidence and testimony to date. I have other possible theories/alternate explanations that I will post here as well. Some of those include BC as culpable or involved, some are variations of the one above. I just wanted to start with this one. If others have alternate explanations as well (BC guilty or not), I would love to hear them.