Going back to the original probable cause affidavit and Chad's preliminary hearing, we learned quite a bit about where Alex was on the nights Tylee and JJ were killed.
TYLEE
So, when exactly was Tylee killed that night? It seems whenever it happened, it had to have occcured between that window of 12:45am and 4:36am when Alex was specifically not in his own apartment. Because later that morning around 9am, he left his apartment with Tylee's body in his truck and drove directly to Chad's pet cemetary where she was found dismemebered, burned, and buried.
Remember: Lori's apartment was #175 and Alex's apartment was #107.
On September 8th, after the trip to Yellowstone:
- Alex's phone returned to Rexburg, ID at 8:37pm
- Alex was at Lori's apt. #175 until 9:35pm
- From 9:43-9:53pm, Alex is at the Maverick on Main Street, Rexburg, ID
- 9:54-10:43pm? (49 minutes) - location not specified
- From 10:44-11:15pm, Alex is at Lori's apt. #175 again
- 11:16-11:43pm? (27 minutes) - location not specified
- At 11:44pm, Alex is at his apartment #107
On September 9th:
- 12am-12:44am, Alex was still at #107
- 12:45-2:41am? (1 hour 56 minutes) - location not specified
- 2:42-3:37am, Alex is in Lori's apt. and in the parking lot at Lori's apt #175 again. *See Preliminary Hearing court testimony/Pin #1, 2, and 3 underlined below.
- 3:38-4:36am? (58 minutes) - location not specified
- 4:37-8:59am, Alex is back at #107
- 9:21-11:39am, Alex is at Chad's property, east of the barn
- 11:52-12:02pm at Del Taco
- Rest of the day at #107
From Detective Stubb's testimony on 8/3/20 regarding Alex's pings:
Exhibit 18 = Aerial of Lori and Alex's apartment complex
Exhibit 18 -
Pin no.3 in parking lot, 9/9/19 at 2:42am.
Exhibit 18 -
Pin no.2 in parking lot, 9/9/19 at 2:42am. *Almost the same location as no.3.
Exhibit 18 -
Pin no.1 9/9/19 at 3:37am. "Same location as this triangle here."
Exhibit 18 - Pin no.8, 9/14/19, 1:21am.
Exhibit 17 = Aerial of Chad's property
Exhibit 17 - Pin no.5, 9/9/19, 9:21am.
Exhibit 17 - Pin no.4, 9/9/19, 10:57am.
JJ
September 9th is the only time Alex was at Lori's between midnight and 6am. So on the 22nd, if JJ was truly sleeping on Alex's shoulder and he was
not covered in duct tape and a garbage bag already, and Alex didn't return to Lori's that night, then Lori killed JJ with duct tape and a garbage bag or at the very least, she wrapped him in duct tape and a garbage bag for some unknown reason sometime in the night.
The only other scenario would be that Alex could have picked JJ up after 6am but before 8am (when MG and DW woke up) and murdered him on the morning of the 23rd. Then drove to Chad's to bury him.
On September 22nd:
- Around 8:30pm, Lori texted MG (not verbatim): "Hey, I'll be there shortly. JJ woke up and I'm getting him back to bed." (Chandler police file dump.)
- 9pm-midnight: MG, DW, and Lori were podcasting in #175.
- Alex brought JJ back to #175 from his apt. #107 sometime in the middle of that recording session. JJ was sleeping on Alex's shoulder and he put JJ to bed in Lori's bedroom and left for the night.
- After recording, Lori went to her bedroom.
- DW & MG went to their room where they shared a bed that night.
On September 23rd:
- DW woke up from a bad dream.
- MG texted and called Lori and Chad's cell phones for a blessing for DW. She got no answer. Then she went to Lori's room down the hall and jiggled the doorknob. The door was locked.
- She went back to David.
- Between 8am-9am, DW and MG and Lori meet in the kitchen of #175. This is when DW asks where JJ is and Lori gives that story of JJ crawling up the cabinets and tells DW that Alex had to pick him up again because of this behavior.
- 9:30am MG and DW leave Rexburg.
- 9:55am-10:12am Alex is in Chad's backyard, near the pond where JJ was buried.
From Detective Stubb's testimony on 8/3/20 regarding Alex's pings:
Exhibit 17 = Aerial of Chad's property
Exhibit 17 - Pin no.7, 9/23/19, 9:56am.
Exhibit 17 - Pin no.6, 9/23/19, 10:02am. *Same general area as no.7.
So who wrapped JJ in the garbage bags and duct tape between midnight and 9:55am?