Hi everyone,
I don't understand something about the timeline with Doordash, and would appreciate if someone can help me make sense of it.
In the photos of the house, we see the doordash bag in the kitchen with Xana's name on it as well as a disposable drink cup with straw.
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As I understand the DD was delivered at 4am, while the killer is said to have entered the house a couple minutes later. The kitchen is right there on the way in if someone enters from the back sliding door.
So, here's what I don't understand: did Xana just eat that food in the kitchen/living area extremely fast between 4am and ±4:04 ish, then go back to her room, just barely avoiding the killer as he entered ? Or did Xana receive the DD and go eat in her room. But then wouldn't she or Ethan have run into the killer when taking the empty bag and food wrappers etc back to the kitchen? I find this very confusing.
Sorry if this has been discussed before, or if there's an obvious explanation I haven't thought of!
We don't know where X ate her food. Did she eat it in the stairwell? Did she bring it back to her bedroom? Or did she eat in the kitchen? Maybe grab some ketchup from the fridge?
It's eerie to know that she was awake and moving freely about the house
at the exact same time the killer was.
If this were a movie, that'd be the point we'd be screaming at the screen, "get out!"
IMO the killer entered while X was still downstairs or while she was in her bedroom. I think, for roommate D to have heard someone say thst there was someone there, it's more likely she heard X say it than K... and I think X was saying it to E. IMO X noticed something. Possibly the sliding door, partially open. Or a pair of shoes in the hallway or by the Plstairs. Maybe the killer slipped his shoes off for stealth. Or... this creeps me out -- that dirt by the potted plant. Had X tipped it over around 4 am and when she set her DD bag and cup at the sink, mysteriously the pot was upright again? I just think they're was something different... more than just movement on the third floor.
The timeline is so tight... somehow the killer entered and made it to the third floor... within minutes of X retrieving and eating her food (though we don't technically know that she ate it)...
The killer would have known someone was awake because surely he heard D... I happen to think he actually saw X. Perhaps he saw her as she was heading into her bedroom, when she said someone is there... she didn't scream, didn't say he's got a knife, so to me, it wasn't full out alarm, it was just weird, odd, unexpected -- might she even have seen him go upstairs? Still not scary, couldn't been a guest on the 3rd floor, same way D might've been shocked to see someone right outside her door but not terrified (if that was the case). I mean, she'd have no way to know he had just murdered her roommates.
I think there was only one target that night. I think X was murdered only because she was awake and I think K and E were murdered because they were in shared rooms.
I can see X getting her food at 4 am, drinking her soda as she walks up the stairs, wolfing down a burger in the stairwell, in the kitchen or in her bedroom, then setting her debris down so she could wash her hands quick before going to bed....
So imnocent, so mundane.
So unfairly fatal.
All of it, so violent, so senseless, so unfair.
Jmo