Yes. He was using this to explain why they were up so early. His initial story is that they went straight to school after almost reaching McDonald’s (Maddie changed her mind), but I skipped towards the end and it sounds like he changed it to add another trip home to get his clicker (with Maddie dead in the vehicle).
I finally had a chance to listen to and transcribe the entire interview. Sorry I'm so behind but I really wanted that so I had something I could search for text.
He talked about the trip to McDonald's many times. Also U-turns to go to McDonald's trying to get her to change her mind. smh He also was saying that she'd change mind, and then he'd make a U-turn to go try it again, but (again) she changed her mind. From my transcript:
LE – OK. At any point while you were driving to the school did you make a U-turn?
SS – Uh, yeah, I tried to sell her on… McDonald’s one more time because I was still kind of hungry? but at that point she was also just wanting to get to school and we turned right back around.
LE – OK, where did you make that U-turn at?
SS – Uh, actually the school parking, uh not the school parking lot, the church parking lot. Uh, I pulled into that and turned around and pulled back out, uhm, did a U-ie there and went back to the McDonald’s and she still wasn’t having it and that’s when we came back. See, the McDonald’s is on the same Town Loop or Town Center, it connects to the same road that the, that the..
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LE – So… you passed the McDonald’s
SS – Yeah, that’s when she said no to McDonald’s the first time.
LE – OK. So, you guys just keep on going on Town Loop.
SS – Yep. But at that point we still had a lot of time to kill. *spoken softly* It was very early.
LE – So what did you guys do?
SS – Uh, drove towards the school, made a U-turn, came back, tried to do the McDonald’s thing again, she didn’t want it.
LE – So, Where did you, one more time, where did you do the U-turn at?
~10:00 SS – Uh, it-it probably was right by the church. Because it was still way too early for school. So it was on that stretch of road. It had the median there and the separation, so, that left turn where the church is, uhm, we make a U-turn there.
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LE – OK. How far did you get before you made the U-turn?
SS – We, we got… is this the school right here? (looking at a map)
LE – Yep. That’s Town Center, uh, Town Loop.
SS – So we got up to here and then made a U-turn over here. Past the median. Went back to McDonald’s. Still time to kill. Still didn’t want the McDonald’s but I did give her a raspberry & cheese Danish.
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