I keep going back to the "LE found the cabin was locked up", aspect of this case.
OK, if I'm a SHTF situation and someone is breaking into where I am at, I will wait until I have a clear line-of-sight towards the perps, before opening fire. I'd wait until they're breaking in or just inside the abode.
JMO
Kind of hard to wait for a clear shot when it was pitch black outside. Seems she was shooting at noises. I agree with you though, I would have made sure to save a couple of shots. Just sit in a corner and wait for them to come in, then blast away.
Bottom line though is that there is no evidence to suggest that anyone was actually there. She could have heard noises, but that could easily have been animals. She was panicked, blasting away aimlessly. When she runs out of ammo, her only option is to go to the roof where she can jump and run if someone enters the house. That is where the logic ends. Either someone caught up with her at that point or she hightailed it in to the wilderness.
So which option makes no sense? If she was going in to the woods, why did she leave the two items she needed most on the roof? Why hasn't she been found? Why couldn't the dogs track her?
If she was indeed taken, it makes sense that the boots and phone would be left there. The gun was on the ground below, possibly she drooped it after jumping down? But you have to ask yourself, if you were there to abduct her, would you continue with her shooting at you? There is no return of fire, so they were either unarmed or they didn't want to harm her. At some point she ran out of ammo, but how would the bad guys know that? Would you confront an armed person with only the assumption that her gun was empty? Even so, if they were watching through the window and saw her run out of ammo, how would they get in? No broken windows or locks. So the only possible scenario would be that she crawled on to the roof and the bad guys grabbed her there.
I suppose if somebody like the boyfriend knew about the weapons in the cabin, and was aware how many rounds were in that gun, they could create a situation where they knew she would fire. Count the shots then go get her. Of course you think that Lundy could have simply walked in the front door without risk.
My last theory would involve a domestic disturbance when Lundy left the cabin. A few nights later he leaves his phone at home and drives to the cabin. He forces Ade to make the distress call, then fires shots through the windows. My problem with this theory is that you don't get dumped by a woman and then haul a load of floor tiles to her condo. I guess it is possible that the tiles were already in his vehicle, or that it just made a good alibi for why he came home.
I do have a couple of big questions though. The friend didn't know the address of the cabin and said that Ade didn't know it either. She said that Ade went to look for a letter that would have the address, but she still gave it incorrectly. The cabin was owned by the family for decades, you'd think Ade would know the address? Secondly, I understand why Ade called the friend, but when the decision was eventually made to call 911, why didn't Ade make the call?
So here's my theory. There was a fight and Lundy killed Ade. He disposed of the body long before this even started. He returns home and plans what to do. He and another woman go to the cabin. When they arrive, he uses her phone to text his at 1:40. Possibly he's got someone at his house to actually receive the text. Now he gets the girl to call the friend in hysterics. The friend hadn't seen Ade much over the previous year, and if they used speaker phone, it would account for why the voice was accepted by the friend. It would also make sense that the imposter wouldn't know the cabin address. Once that call was made, Lundy and the girl are on their way back home. Lundy's phone never left his bedroom, and Ade's phone will only ping at the cabin. So the question is whether there is any actual activity on her phone between the time Lundy left and 1:40 AM that morning?
