After reviewing MC's phone tower-hits records LE reported MC's phone, and they believe MC, too, was at the Riverfront Park boat ramp. Of course, the report could have been a ploy, inaccurate or neither.
If the report is accurate regarding the phone but it was not in MC's possession then someone from the Academy would had to have left the Academy and traveled to the boat ramp relatively soon after MC had left. Of course, we'd have to assume MC had her phone when she arrived to the Academy earlier that day.
At this point, we do not know if MC even had her phone with her that day ... as LE reports, no other calls were placed from the phone except for a text message exchange between it and JV's phone ~ 3:40 p.m.
For how long did MC not have her phone?
If someone from the hair academy did take her phone prior to her leaving they would have had plenty of time to go to the boat launch, but I suspect that in a well scripted murder as this obviously is, that the phone was picked up from the hair academy by a "client" that day, by the POI, or perhaps by the person who received the 6 calls. I further suspect that there is no connection between the person who received the call and MC, but rather that IF there is a connection that it is between the person who received the call and the one who used MCs phone to place it.
Alternately, maybe the phone was taken the night before by whomever she hung out with or loaned out. Under this scenario, the person would have called to have her come pick up her phone, e.g., the boyfriend, so she runs out for a quick errand to reclaim it. Under this scenario she either receives a call at the academy or someone else does, or claims to have, and the plan is started in motion.
This would include for a badly beaten, or expired MC's body to still be in her vehicle when it was driven to and through the car wash. Possible but highly unlikely if it was the JetPro car wash since it has multiple attendants. Crazy risk, that.[/COLOR]
Or, it would include for MC's body to be transfered between vehicles. Possible, but who would risk such a move in what we'd expect to be an at least mildly to moderately busy parking lot with surveillance cameras?
If this took place at perp's place of employment he may have known where the gaps were in security visuals. As for the carwash, the body would have been transferred to another car or location by then. The transfer would not have to have taken place in the parking lot.
Why would it be important for the perp(s) to portray that MC was still alive at those times? Alibis for whom/who?
The calls -- from a phone that the perp and/or others knew would never be found with fingerprints -- were either signals that the plan was in motion (if more than one person was involved) and/or when placed from obscure locations away from the crime scene or to people with no obvious connection to MC also served as LE distractions.
Not that I believe that this crime was conducted by one person, but it just dawned on me that the missing phone could involve just one person IF the phone was taken the night before, or loaned out, and in the possession of the perp the day MC went missing. Furthermore, if the perp were the boyfriend, the perp could actually have placed the text message from the boat launch from MCs phone to his phone which he left behind providing him an alibi and then texted back to her phone after he returned to his phone. Might this be one explanation for her phone being off? That is, if both phones were "on" at the same time that they would be seen "pinging" from the same location? Of course, that's the reason that the phone was "off" regardless of who committed the crime, but it would be more apparent to LE if someone who knew MC or was close to MC had a phone "pinging" from the same location. Just a thought that occurred to me. Has LE said where MCs phone was pinging from earlier in the day? Or whether it had been turned off?
[/COLOR]Where was 'everyone' when those calls and txt msgs were placed (supposedly by MC)?
