Mamamerced
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With all our discussion, I'm not sure we have an answer for this that takes in all the facts we know:
Why were her clothes and blanket in an easy to find pile near the road? Why were gloves, and empty rolls of packing tape or duct tape with them?
Black jeans and a jacket too?
Why was her jawbone there with blood on the ground, and fingernails, and her shoes found in the police search too?
We discussed the idea that she was killed and maybe held in or around Haiku, and that Hana Highway was a distraction.
But we know her phone and her dog were out there that night. He could have done that as part of an organized premeditated plan, but his actions and interviews don't seem to support super organization. For example, if he was really setting this up, he should have called her when he got home, not sent a text in the morning. He should have worked out the broken down truck scenario better to be more plausible. He shouldn't have taken real crime evidence out there with blood on it, bone, fingernails. He shouldn't have taken her remains of any part of them anywhere near the area mentioned in his fake story.
The alternative is the obvious that she indeed was killed at or her body came to rest there near Paraquat's, and most of her remains were moved, buried, put in ocean. Don't see how the finishing part could have happened Sunday night. There would not be a detached "bone." That takes at least some time. And at least one of those items of clothing or the blanket stayed in contact with her long enough for maggots to appear. That does not happen in two hours.
I think that the risk of transporting her dead body on Hana Highway was too much, either from Honomanu to Haikku or to Honomanu from Haiku. Neither of their vehicles had a trunk.
I'm thinking she would not have gone out Hana Highway at his request, so he did something to restrain her and took her out there. I have seen that the family wants the police to charge him with false imprisonment. Maybe they know something to support that. If so, that would make it easy to drop Nala off first and get the dog out of the picture so it would not bark when he went to the site he had planned.
Then he buried her in a shallow grave? Then he went back Monday or Tuesday or both. The family was searching the area already; that would have made it very sketchy to do anything by day. If he went down the road alone during the Tuesday search, was he checking to make sure all was undisturbed? He knew at that point that this family was going to search every bit of the area, with the help of volunteers, so his makeshift grave was not going to hold out, if he ever thought it would? So he went back and at that point he would have removed her clothes and put them to the side to do whatever he was doing (gruesome). Maybe he meant to take them away. Maybe he was startled by someone coming down the road and just had to take off. Fisherman and hunters frequent the area and move around in the pre-dawn, for example.
Does anyone have an idea at what point and for what the gloves and duct tape were used? The tape makes me think of wrapping her up in something, but I'm not clear why.
Also there is some conversation in the motion details that indicates the black jeans were SC's size, but nothing about these jeans or jacket having blood or other signs of a crime on them.
The prosecution will need to present a good plausible theory of the scenario in order to overcome the lack of a body in this case, or I don't see how they can prove beyond reasonable doubt.
You give an articulate description of what/how I believe it happened that night, Pua, although you've given it more focussed thought. My conclusion emerged in pictures to me. Gloves, if they're his, are standard fare in premeditation, no matter how poorly completed. Duct tape? Many uses. Not sure about the clothes. Possibly a clean set to wear home, which were overlooked in haste, along with everything else he dropped/couldn't see for whatever unexpected? reason. I hope the someone who claims SC was in/near Hana that night (about 11?) can positively identify him. That would put him there way past the time he claimed, in the interview, to have left Keanae after fixing his truck.
For some reason my mind just can't go there anymore. I think I broke it!