My opinions only, no facts here:
I have handled hundreds of 55 gal. drums of fuel, filled to empty. They are unwieldy to handle. But I can load a 55 gal. drum filled with fuel into a truck by rolling it up on angled 2 by 4's.
But I would judge that such drums would more likely be used for fixed storage (as they often are in crimes), but not for intermediate transport.
I find the KFC video useful for two reasons. It provides a time during which M is alone and unharmed. Secondly, it shows what she was wearing on top the day of her disappearance. To answer a previous poster's question, my versions of the neighborhood surveillance cam are of terrible quality, but it seems that M has on a whitish-colored top. I could not enhance that later video unless I had a better copy to start with. But it seems that a driver of about the same size is shown in both the KFC and later neighborhood surveillance videos.
Expanding on this
theory
I would think it would be a cinch you wouldnt be able to roll up a loaded barrel into any rig with a closed garage with the back end facing the garage door cuz you just don't have that kind of room available on a closed garage.
It would be nearly impossible to lift, loaded I would think, since you could not stand upright in a hummer (for leverage) and it wouldnt fit ( I don't believe) in his truck and still be able to close the truck lid, so it might not matter how upright you could stand in IT to lift lift something.
If you COULD fit it in the trunk of the truck, it would be tight and I never note any damage to the lid of his trunk (or any other area for that matter) in any video.
Depending on the layout of the garage to the condo entry door, if you can back in close enough, and the condo floor is higher than the garage floor, you might be able to rig something up in that area to help give you leverage and room for some planks.
We do not see the work van in the s.v., correct?
Does this mean it is parked around the corner? Or does he even have it?
You don't see it the following night either, I don't believe.
How often did he bring the work van home and did he have a regular place he would park it?
Did he usually have it, even on his days off?
He IS woking the next day, so it isn't that he has relinquished it for the weekend or anything.
IF a barrel was used, AND he laid it down inside the hummer first, then put Michelle in it and closed it, or was able to back it up to the condo entry door to load, AND if he was driving the hummer traveling W on Hoffner near 4:30, then could it possible this happened soooo fast that:
The kids never left the hummer? Or had been told to play upstairs for a bit?
That the hummer played a bigger role in the commission of this crime than originally thought?
That the van was around the corner so Michelle chose the driveway to park in (although I believe somebody pointed out that they did not feel the hummer looked like it was going to pull into the driveway)?
or
That the van was parked so far back that michelle was practically at the corner anyway when she parked?
and/or
That she was already in a barrel on the way to Sr's in the hummer shortly after she arrived and she is there in one now? (ventilation, noisy generator, etc.... ring a bell...?)
or
That Jr went to Sr's the morning of the 18th in the work van to 'pick up the barrel to drop off on the way to work?
and/or the barrel has been
Cemented? (a little overnight project perhaps for someone?)
With all those vehichles, I wouldnt doubt but they could own a cherry picker... did I get that right auto buffs? One of those motor lifters?
Is it possible this all happened so fast that it was mostly completed within just an hour or 2? Changing the dynamics of a single persons involvement,, if in no other way, than for someone else having carnal knowledge? (edited for clarity)
(Side Note: If glow stickers were removed at the condo, it most likely would have been done in the garage and not on the street. If she had parked around the corner, someone would have to either: A) back it up till you could go forward and pull into the garage, B) back it up the entire way, C) pull down the street and make a u-turn, D) or drive it around the block.
Could the sighting of the hummer at 3:18 be it's final ascent to the garage and be being driven by someone else already when it is caught on tape, rather than being Michelle seen? Could the hummer have actually arrived a few minutes earlier even? And this is just being caught as the hummer is being pulled in to be stripped and/or loaded?) actually being its... second arrival and we never see michelle arrive at all cuz it never triggers the s.v. until the 3:18 recording? Making even the song text to NM a fake? Say, being sent as the hummer is being moved for instance... edited for clarity
This is just asking questions about a possible theory for feedback.
