You know whats been really bugging me ?!
1. The txt messages.
2. The google searches.
3. The different stories about the path Allison may have walked along.
4. His general policy of non-commmunication.
And it all comes back to why, WHY did he do this ?
And my conclusion was that it must have appeared to him as a perfectly reasonable course of action.
So now my question was, WHY was this a reasonable course of action ?
And my conclusion this time was because he had a particular scenario in mind, where these elements all together, would paint him as the innocent party.
In other words all of these elements were designed to manipulate the police to come to a certain conclusion. So this lead to me thinking about what these elements could be designed to achieve...
Lets imagine we are in the alleged killers shoes. The body has been disposed of and you need a plausible explanation for why Allison is not in the house. You hit on the idea that she went for a walk and was mugged. So now you need to think when she went for a walk. Has to be morning otherwise you have to explain why you didnt ring the police that night.This leads to txt number 1:
"Good morning! Hope you slept well? Where are you? None of the girls are up yet! Love G''
Lets dissect the txt,. After each part I've commented on a possible underlying meaning and manipulation:
1. "Good morning!" - No animosity, jovial, all is right with world. Establishes this txt was sent in the morning.
2. "Hope you slept well?" - Implies he hasn't spoken to her that night or morning and establishes that he believes she slept at the house that night.
3. "Where are you ?" - Laying the ground work that she is not in the house.
4. "None of the girls are up yet!" - Establishes that she left before the girls were up - implication being that the police dont need to ask the girls any questions as they did not see her that morning.
5. "Love G." - Establishes he has a loving relationship.
Next you need some evidence of a mugging. So you land on the idea of a damaged iphone lying in the undergrowth. Problem is you want the police to find the iphone, so how do they find it. You think, turn on location tracking on the phone, but that presents all sorts of problems, such as why didn't you use location tracking to find her before calling the police...OK scrap that. OK, tell a couple of relatives of walk paths, dont tell the police, so as not to appear knowledgeable about where the phone might be, and place the phone in the first secluded spot on these paths.
So this leads to the second txt:
"Al, getting concerned. Where are you? The app doesn't say either? ... I'm dressed and about to make lunches. Please just text me back or call! Love G''
"Al, getting concerned. Where are you?" - Establishes that he is concerned for her well being.
"The app doesnt say either ?" - hint to the police that they can look for the phone, to find the place of mugging.
"I'm dressed" - Establishes that he wasn't dressed earlier - reinforcing that he was in the house and not outside.
"About to make lunches" - This must be unusual or he wouldn't mention it. I reckon this is here to explain why he knew something must be really wrong. He never makes lunches, Allison always makes lunches. Therefore something really bad has happened. QED the need to call in the police.
"Please just text me back or call!" - establishes a tone of final desperation and urgency.
"Love G." - its a loving relationship.
So now he needs to think what an innocent person would do before phoning the police. You would be concerned about not being in the frame for something you didnt do - in his mind an innocent person would google how to not incriminate yourself! You would check the QPS website for notices of someone being missing or a pedestrian accident near by.
So now he needs to demonstrate that he is out of his mind with worry - well that calls for a psychiatrist, hence the googling for one.
I believe his undoing, is that the scenario in his head lacked passion, emotion and depths of complexity, the txts came across as too try-hard, and he left out contacting friends, family and going for a drive with the family in the car, looking for any signs of Allison. Above all the timeline is far too compressed because he's not going through the emotions. This to me is the big giveaway IMO. It's why it all appears false and contrived.
Obviously this is all alleged conjecture and MOO.
What would be interesting is if they can find out when the messages were typed out on his phone. A big delay between typing and sending the 1st message followed by the second message being pre-typed straight after the 1st message was sent would seal the case. Those messages are stored somewhere on the phone when they are typed. Lets hope they can enlist some smart guys at Apple to check for this.
