IMO it is very likely that Tylee was killed in LVD’s apartment by LVD between 11:45pm and 2:40am. LVD then called AC back to her apartment to help deal with the body. I believe the dismemberment happened at the Daybell property over a period of time with the tools from the tool shed while the body was being burned. Note all times in the following scenario are approximate (hopefully within 5 or 10 min)…
They leave Yellowstone 6:40pm and stop at a BBQ place just long enough to get an order to go and eat in the car on the way home. They get back to LVD’s apt 8:40ish. AC goes to a local convenience store/gas station a few minutes later - trip takes about 10 min - then he goes to his own apt for a minute - then back to LVD’s for an hour - then back to his own apt 11:45ish.
I do wonder what he had to go to the store for and what he went to get in his apt for that one minute when he returned - but think if anything was suspect with his purchase that they would have had video from the store.
They have shown that leaving LVD’s around midnight was fairly typical for AC so I think that up to that point it is highly likely that Tylee was alive when he left LVD’s apt at 11:45pm as was his normal routine.
AC is in his own apt for about 3 hours and then returns to LVD’s apt at 2:40ish AM. He is there for about 2 hours before returning to his own apt 4:40ish AM and remains there until he leaves for CD’s around 9am.
LE has indicated that this is the only time AC’s device is at LVD’s between midnight & 6am while they lived in Rexburg. Some things to think about…if AC had killed Tylee prior to going to his own apt at 11:45pm…would he have left LVD alone with Tylee’s body for 3 hours and then returned at 2:40am? Would he have taken the body with him to his apt? If so, why leave JJ’s body in his apt & return to LVD’s 3 hours later for 2 hours at 2:40am? I don’t think so.
Why would AC go back to LVD’s apt at 2:40am? I don’t recall if there was testimony regarding a phone call from LVD to AC at that time but I think she had to call him to wake him up and ask him to come over - could have been a text but more likely a phone call as most people don’t have a sound set on their texts that would wake them like a phone call does. So why would LVD call AC to come over at that time of the morning? Hey, I know it’s late but could you come over here and kill Tylee for me? Again, I don’t think so. I know we’re talking about LVD here and that means things often don’t make sense, but… It seems much more likely to me that she killed Tylee while AC was at home asleep and called him for help with the body.
It seems AC & LVD have 2 hours at LVD’s to do something with Tylee’s body and potentially AC has another 4 hours to do something with the body IF he took it back to his own apartment at 4:40am. But I do not think any dismembering took place at either apt. Why? Several reasons…traces of blood would likely have still been found in one or both apartments and the vehicle used to transport her which I’m guessing is the jeep…containers would be needed to transport body parts and not just the melted bucket found with her remains…tools would be required and there is no indication that AC or LVD had such tools available at the apt complex. But mostly - Tylee’s necklace at the Daybell property. I think it is highly unlikely that anyone would dismember a body and pick up the necklace to take with them to discard with the remains.
It seems much more likely to me that after LVD killed Tylee, she called AC who came over and they spent that 2 hours putting Tylee’s body in the jeep and cleaning up the mess. (I’m picturing a struggle between LVD & Tylee creating havoc in the apt not blood from a dismembering.) Then AC went home to get some sleep and took the body to CV’s after Tammy left for work and perhaps after neighbors left for work. (Forgive me for the graphic part of this next step.) Once there, he & CD go to the shed to get tools - shovels, pick axe, etc - and they begin to bury Tylee but for whatever reason decide to burn her first instead or perhaps that was the plan from the beginning. As the body burns, they poke and jab with the shovels and pick axe (getting Tylee’s DNA on those tools as they do) and the dismemberment process begins and the necklace is tossed just outside of the burn pile - likely caught by a down swing of the pick axe and tossed by the up swing. During the course of the 2 1/2 hours AC is with CD they realize they cannot completely burn the body in one attempt and they hurriedly bury the remains under the burning brush on the burn pile. AC leaves & within 15 minutes of him leaving, CD texts TD about burying the racoon and burning limbs.
Neighbors see more bonfires on the Daybell property - different neighbors may have been talking about different fires on different dates - one seemed to indicate it was multiple fires in the fall and the other said in the spring. I think all subsequent fires were to destroy more of Tylee’s body and again more of the body was dismembered while poking around with shovels and pick axe during these subsequent fires.
I also think it is POSSIBLE - just possible - that CD was at LVD’s when Tylee was killed after AC left her apt at 11:45pm. I don’t know what CD might have told TD about being gone so late that evening if he was there - perhaps another meeting or something. But the reason I think it is POSSIBLE is that in LVD’s notice of alibi filed prior to her trial, her attorneys said during the times that JJ & Tylee were killed in AC’s apt she was at home “with MG & DW &/or CD.” We know that MG & DW were in Rexburg when JJ was killed so that would appear to be the reference to them. That would leave CD being present at the time of Tylee’s death. Was he there? I don’t know but it seemed an odd reference to me to include in that notice of alibi.
All of this is MOO and much of it is pure speculation.
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