Winterhike
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snipped by meThat they found blood in the hallway and bathroom is pretty strong evidence of this. I don't think he dismembered the body, but I guess you never know.
What is missing, as you say, pertains to when BB was aware that Maleah had died. I don't think she died in that hour and a half while she was in the apartment. I think DV got rid of the body shortly after she died. It doesn't make sense that he would hide the body in the home for three days, and wait until Friday to clean up the evidence. Not with the kids there and not with the risk of CPS or others dropping by at any time. And then of course there would be the smell of a dead body.
BB must have contacted him while she was away. The phone records will show how many times. She must have asked to speak to the kids, or at least asked how they were. He may have lied to her right up until the time of his arrest.
1. I was thinking/hoping this too, about the timing of her death. Most people would not want to spend any amount of time trapped in a small apartment with a corpse and would not want to risk their children old enough to ask questions discovering it.
BUT then the video of DV leaving the apartment with only the two boys on the morning of Thursday, May 2 was released. Why would he leave the apartment with just two of the kids, especially when on Tuesday he took Maleah along for the day care drop-off and then brought her home? I think if she had been alive on Thursday, he would have taken her along with them. The only other possibility I'm still considering is that Maleah was still alive but was seriously injured or impaired at that point so he knew he couldn't take her out without someone noticing her condition, so he left her home, probably suffering.
My other question, though, is why did he wait so long to do anything with the body? Why not take care of it on Thursday, when the two boys were at school? I *think* the answer might be that he had that general dump location over the state line already in mind (maybe also the kidnapping story), and knew he wouldn't get back in time to pick up the boys, thus raising questions about where he was.
I guess another possibility is that he's rather a procrastinating idiot and just thought he'd ignore the reality of Maleah's body until BB's return was imminent.
2. I think if she'd asked to speak to the kids while she was in MA, QX would have mentioned it while he was describing her reports of what went down that week. I think she was pretty used to letting DV worry about the kids (with whatever capacity for parental worry he has, I guess) and probably did not feel any desire to speak to them while she was away.