After reading one of the more recently posted newspaper articles in which it was talking about the girls' interest in forensics and police work, I'm wondering if perhaps the two girls could have been starting to create a video, perhaps as a school project or something.. perhaps filming whatever, making up a crime story to go with it (would have made a great project out there in the barren winter wilderness on the crickety unsafe bridge over top of the creek), but then the crime and the perp morphed into reality.
It was grade 8 when my child's class was tasked with forming groups of 2 or 3 students, to each create a video for presentation to the class. Themes/storylines were chosen by each group individually. If something like that happened, then the perp surely wouldn't have been stupid enough to leave the phone(s) with the girl(s), but if the girls had been auto uploading to a cloud, it's possible the perp's techno knowledge wasn't advanced enough to know that this was a possibility. Back to the old, 'did police actually locate LG's phone, or just the content uploaded from the phone'. The girls may have had a plan to create such a thing, just choosing the first person/people they saw out there that day, but as chance would have it, they happened upon the wrong person/people on the wrong day that were involved in the wrong thing.
Trying to think what could prompt that kind of anger if not 'personal', and if not sexual. If you're a badguy and you see 2 silly teens filming you perhaps involved in some kind of criminal activity, it may not go over so well. If that was the case, the perp would likely be local, probably has a previous criminal record, and didn't want to risk jail time. But if local, then why hasn't he been identified by locals? Perhaps he has been, but someone is covering and providing a false alibi?
And perhaps others who may have info are not willing to expose their own criminality by making that call, considering all of the arrests police have made during this case, outside of the realm of the murders. I wonder why police haven't issued a promise stating that unrelated criminality will not be pursued in exchange for information relating to this case (as long as the person wasn't a participant). Don't they have 'Crimestoppers' over there, where calls are not traced and people can call in anonymously with tips? I know it has been said that people *can* call the tipline anonymously, but does that guarantee to them that their numbers and locations aren't being traced? I know this stuff has already been discussed, it's just so annoying that nothing seems to be happening, FBI has gone home, etc.
