Questions.
I am puzzled as to how Brawley figures in. That is, beyond Audrey mentioning it to her sister. I’ve read where she is going to Brawley – between an hour and an hour and a half – from Jonathan’s Palm Desert home. And I’ve read that he was in Brawley but on his way back and she was picking him up.
The pizza box with 5:44 PM time. If Jonathan did order that pizza it probably arrived between 6:00 and 6:15. He called Audrey sometime between 8:00 (when Audrey got off work) and 8:30 (I’ve also heard 8:45) to pick him up. So he eats a pizza and leaves possibly at the earliest, 6:30 PM, and goes to Brawley, he would likely arrive between 7:30 and 8:00. He calls her less than an hour later and has her pick him up?
Text from Audrey’s phone of her and Jonathan. Didn’t Audrey send this about 8:50 that evening in response to a text from her mother?
Brawley again. We don’t know the context in which Brawley is mentioned. He was in Brawley? He was on his way back from Brawley? OR he stated he was on or off of Hwy 86 or Hwy 111 LIKE you are GOING to Brawley? IOW a direction. Or course, if he was north of the Salton Sea, why wouldn’t say, ‘…like you are going toward the Salton Sea.’?
Jonathan’s cell phone. Rumor that he can only use it with WIFI. If that is true and he and some friends are sending meme’s back and forth up till around 9:05 PM, it would seem he was somewhere where he could use WIFI. His place? Someone else’s place in the Palm Desert, Indio or Coachella area?
SUV on the interstate. I don’t know how the highway patrol is with abandoned vehicles in CA. In VA, I’ve parked a vehicle and VA SP put an abandoned vehicle tag with the date and time and they did within 2-3 hours. If the vehicle is still there 48 hours they tow the vehicle and a certified letter is sent to the owner. Unless it has changed, I thought CHP gave the owner 4 hours (I’ve also read 72 hours) after being tagged, if on public property, to remove the vehicle. This vehicle sat there from the night of May 10th or early May 11th to May 12th on a busy interstate? And not tagged? I believe LE used ONSTAR to locate it and not anything from CHP records.
Dog tracking from SUV. Did the dogs track one scent – Jonathan or Audrey – OR both? I’m not familiar with dog tracking, but can an article of clothing from the person be dragged across the ground to provide a false trail? Why do this? Well, if the vehicle was actually left there early on the morning it was found, May 12th, it is possible Audrey and Jonathan were not even in the vehicle at that point. Rather someone parked the vehicle, dragged some clothing across the pavement to make it appear Audrey and Jonathan got in another vehicle. Far fetched? Maybe. Or the driver tracked something from Audrey that he got on his shoes from her SUV a short distance? Again, far fetched? A VI with knowledge of tracking dogs would know better.
ONSTAR on Audrey's SUV. From what I understand of the service you can subscribe to a monthly service to obtain a real time location of the vehicle, BUT not how it traveled to that spot. BUT if the vehicle is parked it will not tell you how long it was there. Unless the driver was using a navigation system installed by the manufacturer you really have no travel history, just where the vehicle is located at the time you inquire. Maybe someone has better info than this.
The body – or bodies? – found south of Bakersfield. We have not heard anything on this.
Motive. Ex-boyfriend sounds like one of the best.
Another motive. The drug connection has been brought up. But what about human trafficking coming up from Mexico? This is a convoluted matter now. In addition to Mexicans there are now persons from Central American countries. Organized crime from Asian countries are smuggling persons into Mexico and then across the border. Although most of the violence occurs in Mexico, some occurs here and one such city, Phoenix AZ, is considered the worst in the US. I’m not saying either was involved, but could one or the other have learned something or saw something they shouldn’t have.
OK, very wordy and rambling, but just some thoughts.