Why did HE answer the phone when Cassandra called?
Why was his phone ON at all?
It just seems to me that making a mistake like that is not consistant with his plotting and scheming behavior.
If you were out disposing of a body you murdered earlier in the day, why would you have your phone on, knowing full well that it can be tracked and show your location?
Everybody knows that ... especially a cop!
It doesn't make any sense to me.
How 'bout you?
Our prisons are full of people who thought they were capable of committing the perfect crime. Since he allegedly did it before with Kathleen, he most likely thought he had it all worked out once again.
Leave phone at the coffee shop, go to vicinity of known male friend of wife, phone your own phone, setting up to have wife in area of friend. He was smart enough to figure that out, but he wasn't counting on Cassandra calling him at 11:30 P.M.
DP probably thought no one would call him at that time of night. He was most likely pumped, adrenilin flowing furiously through his veins, he had just finished getting rid of the evidence of his most recent crime. He thought he was HOME FREE!!
When Cassandra called, he probably answered his phone to insure that she didn't come by the house, NOT THINKING about the other part of the equation, (an equation that he'd so carefully planned out with the earlier phone call), that his phone call could be traced by location. He also didn't THINK OR KNOW Cassandra was sitting directly outside his house, had already talked to the children, KNEW darn well neither car was at the home.
DP was also, NOT prepared for questioning by LE so soon after Stacy disappeared. He wasn't counting on Cassandra's persistance and that Stacy had alerted her possible 'life-threatening situation,' and that there were more than just Cassandra who would be concerned if Stacy were not in contact for any length of time.
There have been several recent cases, where the wife wasn't missed for days and sometimes even weeks before it comes to the attention of LE. Most likely DP thought he had MORE time to clean up and get his act and complete story together.
Even Bernie Grimm on Greta last night, mentioned a defendant he had who there was no proof that his client even knew the victim. Except the 'smoking gun' for the pros was a cell phone call from his client to the victim, shortly before the crime. Needless to say, Bernie's client was convicted.
JMHO
fran