More info on yesterday's testimony:
'We were going to arrest Brendt': Authorities detail investigation into accused kidnapper
If note: When BC's wife returned on Monday, she noted the gas tank of the Astra was down to half full, after she had filled it before leaving Friday. I don't know the gas mileage of a typical ten year old Astra, but factoring in also driving around town on Friday to search for someone to abduct, this means her body (if it was not destroyed) must be relatively close to Champaign. Probably within 100 miles. That's still a lot of area to search....
wOW!
THIS!!!! She assisted in the search, Huckstadt said, at one point mentioning that her husband's favorite book, "American Psycho," wasn't in the apartment.
I read that book many years ago, I recommend it highly to anyone trying to understand the mind and actions of a psychopath. (I lent it to a friend with another pile of books sometime after, e hasn't spoken to me since!!)
Why did he remove that book?
Was he referring to passages in it while he killed her? Hardly.
Has he got a den somewhere?
Wondering whether any laundry or other household items were removed from apartment as well?
'american psycho' is not a book one would re-read.. it's messages are startlingly clear, cold and without humanity.
But, because it is so many years since I read it and because the book went missing after or during the murder, maybe it will offer some clues.. why did he need to remove it? How come his wife noticed it was missing?
I'm disgusted at the manner in which TEB is being violated by the prosecution- without her work, there would be no case because there is no body, probably no DNA...
We need to figure a way to calculate the petrol usage for that car of that year. I don't imagine he used that much petrol while he was stalking, which means he either travelled out of town with the body or drove around for quite a while searching for a place to dispose of it.. back to dumpster theory... we only searched dumpsters within the vicinity, he could have driven to the next town to use a dumpster...
...but I think the fBI believe he had planned the whole execution meticulously, documented in previous court filings, which suggests he also planned the disposal.
The missing book holds a clue, it must do. Could it be a thing that he decided to get rid of it after executing her because he would have expected a police visit and book held details that were significant to his actions? That won't wash as a theory because it was also listed on his facebook account as a favourite..Where the hell is that book and why would it be missing???
Thanks DM for transcribing all of that with the excellent links and thanks for staying on top of it. (I disappeared because of frustration with entire case, and Gaza was calling me)