http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/...rest-in-spierer-case-20110610,0,4732233.story
I wanted to bring back this quote from a June 10, 2011 article. This article was written a week after Lauren disappeared and if correct, MB was telling friends within days of Lauren's disappearance that he helped CR to bed due to CR being drunk. Apparently, MB was not attributing CR being put to bed to his so called "head injury".
I continue to believe the amnesia due to head injury is a story of convenience from Salzman/CR, and that if CR does indeed lack any memories it is due to intoxication. Clearly nobody clued MB in soon enough on what the "story" was.
Whether it is even the truth that CR was put to bed upon arriving at 5N is still up for debate. I know some people see it as very unlikely that CR was drunk due to the fact that he was the one carrying and supporting Lauren. I think it is still possible that he was pretty drunk, but in comparison to Lauren was in much better shape.
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I wonder how many friends of the POI's have little bits of stories and information that, if shared with LE and looked at all-together could reveal a larger inconsistency or perhaps hint at what is fact and what is fiction.
JMO. Also, this is written with the understanding that there may have been confusion/inconsistencies with the media articles early on in the case.
Thanks for digging this up. This is one of those stories that are inconsistent with other, more recent versions. This one says MB SAW her LEAVE, others say MB brought her to JR's. I think this is a key rift. There is a huge difference between MB's attributed stories alone, and they don't quite mesh with JR's. Further statements and analysis of the mysterious "guests" that were present at either CR/MB's and/or JR's might be able to nail down something closer to the truth.
Also the reports of MB trying to get LS to STAY seem to range from a "friendly" suggestion to something a bit more aggressive. If LS was dead or unconscious at 3:30am... then of course this would be a cover story.
I've not been able to find, but do recall early reports that had JR and others coming to CR/MB's. While I find room for other possibilities, intuition is telling me that LS was near death after that face down fall exiting the alley.
CR then picked her up, abandoning her belongings which had falling from her hands. (subject of fake ID and keycard I've posted about separately).
He managed to get her over to at least the other side of the dumpster behind 5N such that the 2 guys who saw LS's wallet/keys did not see anything else going on just a few minutes later.
Now from here it can be argued that either CR left her there and went for help OR continued to carry/drag her up to his Apt. (This is of course where Amnesia becomes really convenient) So sometime between 3:00 and 3:30 it seems indisputable that CR made it to his Apt. Yes, there were reports of CR vomiting and being put to bed. And early reports painted what seems to be a very false picture that LS was assisting with that.
More likely is that LS was dead, dying, unconscious, convulsing (NEEDING MEDICAL ATTENTION AS RET. FBI agent says). Somewhere between that lot behind 5N and JR's something happened. The key time here is 3:30 when MB called JR, and then we get the various inconsistent stories of what happened at CR/MB's and how LS got to JR's. From the beginning and common to all versions of MB's stories is that the buck gets passed to JR.
If the right dogs were used, I'm very inclined to think she was deceased before reaching 5N and that CR did not bring her up... else there would have been a hit by a dog in either CR/MB's or JR's. But if those apartments were not checked for it by that type of dog, then
she may have died either at CR/MB's, JR's or the Stairwell in between.
My gut says it was going down at 3:30 and JR & co. came over to CR/MB's
How and why JR became responsible for this situation is very curious.
In this scenario at least 2 of them are directly involved, and 2 more would have at least a very good idea of what happened.
If her body was already down near the dumpster it would mean some of them went down to verify CR's story... and someone moved her.
If she passed in CR/MB's, JR's or in between... then not only would she have been moved, but her death would have been cleaned up and concealed.
I do not see how one person could have pulled that off without planning, but I do see how panic, fear of culpability, etc... could have created a temporary and intense situation where 2 or more cooperated to hide what happened. Also agree with that Ret. FBI agent that they may have expected LS to be found and were surprised when she wasn't.
Considering that for a moment... if they figured they would make it look like she wandered off or was abducted, they need only bring her a couple blocks away and could have left her body exposed. It's happened before... she might still be very close. In fact bodies (and live abductions for that matter) more often than not, tend to be found relatively close to where they were last seen. Certainly a more detailed clean up and disposal would be more incriminating.
If you are the last person to be "proven" to be with someone who disappeared, to me you are automatically suspect. If you are the last person to say you were with someone, I think the same applies.
Here we have one person that we know may have been then last to be with her because of video, and another person who "says" he was the last to be with her. But those 2 people are inextricably linked, and tied by a 3rd - MB.
So, all 3 and their guests remain top suspects in my book... with accidental death (combined with their negligence) as the root cause, leading to a cover up.
If there is any chance of a random abduction the lack of cooperation from these 3 is surely eclipsing that remote possibility.
