Could the pings be coming from the triangulation radius of 119 Okanogan?
It's close enough to the other addresses to probably fit.
I'm not convinced that MC was ever at that place. IIRC, was a 2nd floor unit, and you'd have too many issues to deal with. Possibly being heard by downstairs neighbors, and hauling body out of there. No mention of any blood splatters there, just blood in carpet pad. With rentals, that could be years old from who knows who. Cheap landlord might replace the carpet and not bother with the pad.
Doesn't mean her phone wasn't. But after 3:30, she didn't respond back to her BF, which was way out of character for her. And male fitting CW's description was possibly seen walking down Squilchuck as early as 4:30pm. There just isn't enough time in there to be more than one place (with a body in tow) before dumping the car and making a decent hike back to town.
Not to be graphic, but if she died by 3:30ish below the salon, by 9:30pm at the latest there would no longer be bleeding. No way he would risk moving a body in daylight, and why on earth take it from Point A to Point B to Point C to dump, even after dark?
You'd get it out of there at first reasonable opportunity, but risk somebody seeing you coming and going with a body from an apartment bldg full of other people coming and going? I can't see any logic behind that.
IF she died in the studio apartment, he got dumb lucky in removing a body with nobody seeing a thing.
The basement under the salon is in a more commercial area, and after dark, isn't going to be much to worry about except street traffic, and if he left at say 3am, precious little chance anybody would be out to spot him moving a large object from door to back of vehicle that he would have had parked adjacent.
Of course blood in
both locations could be ages old and unrelated to Mac, but if I had to put money on one right now, it would be the basement, because LE found both splatter, and direct contact blood.
If those 6 calls were made after 3:30, i.e. 3:30-3:42, then I doubt highly Mac dialed them. Much smarter for the perp (he thinks) to use her phone if he was calling somebody to help him, since that phone was no doubt destroyed not long thereafter. Better to have them show up in her cell records than on his, because it "looks" like she made those calls. Used the phone only as long as he needed to.
Wonder if LE ever managed to find calls in the timeframe that Verizon so annoyingly lost? I bet there is a smoking gun to somebody else, IF he enlisted help moving her.
She wasn't a tiny little thing by any stretch, and once a corpse starts to get stiff (would have been in a couple hours), word is they are a lot tougher to move than a live human.
But given there was a drag trail down to the river at CB, it looks like he failed to find assistance, at least at that end. Maybe a little more than flustered at the time and thus couldn't get the phone number correct.
If he had help, I suspect if it will save his butt at all (i.e. possibility of parole), he'll roll over.
Or maybe he was trying to call a band buddy with a van or something larger than the VW. With some story about why he needed to borrow it. We'll see soon I hope if anybody else jumps out of the woodwork to points fingers his direction.
