"Another manager at the store, Crystal Ishmael, said Whitelaw’s boyfriend was hired on about three months ago. When that happened, Ishmael said, Johnson “appeared to be acting jealous.”
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Police say during a Mirandized interview, Johnson admitted he’d had a crush on Whitelaw at one time, but that he no longer had feelings for her, because he had become “intimate” with Ishmael.
Ishmael, one of the store managers previously mentioned, had not mentioned that relationship to officers, according to the arrest affidavit."
I have seeeeeeeerrrrrious doubts about this guy's claim that he's dating his manager. He seems like a typical thin-skinned misogynist workplace predator, who sees his female coworkers only as sexual objects and can't deal with rejection AT ALL.
I admit there is an infinitesimally-small chance he's telling the truth, in which case I would have to ask if Ishmael, the female manager, omitted the fact that she's dating Johnson in an attempt to cover for him. Having read the affidavit--link to it is in the article
@PawneeDew posted--it DOES seem really strange that Ishmael went outside looking for Whitelaw before her body was found, tried to open the door to the dumpster area, and couldn't--a man's voice from inside the dumpster area aid he was changing so the manager just...walked away. I looked at the parking lot for the Walgreens via Google Earth and am attaching a photo that shows the dumpster enclosure. Is it, um, super-common in Colorado for people to change clothes in the dumpster enclosure? Why on Earth *wouldn't* the manager wonder if something was amiss?!