I've never thought this was well planned. At most, fantasized about but not made solid plans for real life. I believe it's now known that Yingying was not the first target, BC was out shopping that day.
See my post #361- wording of the superseding indictment refers to planning in this paragraph
that Christensen committed the offense in an especially heinous, cruel or depraved manner, in that it involved torture or serious physical abuse to the victim; and, that Christensen committed the offense after substantial planning and premeditation to cause the death of a person.
- so substantial planning was involved.... the question is what was the nature of those plans , and whether they included disposal plans?
She was not his first target that day, he tried to pick up the other girl 2 hrs beforehand, possibly scouted for hrs before that as well.
He found Yy on the street, lunchtime after having spent many hrs stalking. So, though YY cannot be said to have been his plan, any woman, presumably could have been targeted.
The planning and the pre-meditation was to cause death if I'm reading it right, death to a victim, some victim, some time, some place, some where.
Makes me wonder whether they found a manifesto or some such scribblings.
Or priors Or messages on his computers...
On the face of it , it does not appear to be well planned, as you say, but they must have more than a shred of evidence to use the word substantial and pre-meditated- more than a fantasy.
It's all down to what he actually did when he got her into his apartment but at this stage we dont even know how he got her in there, undetected, unless he had rendered her unconscious first. He allegedly stated in tape during march that she had put up a fight but we do not know where exactly the fight occurred or her condition on arrival at his apartment.
We got no breaks at all in this case. Not a single one.
Her body unrecovered. No autopsy. No known cause of death .
If it wasn't a DP case, it would be done and dusted by now.
And if they had any decent evidence, by now the ever -so-diligent defence team would surely have mentioned it.
If he is convicted and it is still an 'if', there will be 20 yrs of appeals ahead.
Substantial planning had to mean more than getting Michelle out of the apartment for the weekend and buying a few tools or whatever.
Unlike many victims, she was declared missing within hours, not days weeks or months.