Skigirl
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A few things have snapped in to focus for me over the last couple days:
1) The incident report called in by the Laundries on Sept 10 involving LP's father. This is coincident with when her mother became worried enough to try to file a missing persons report. My guess is that her mother called her father in distress at that point, and with the Laundries not taking calls from anyone in LP's family, her father decided to drive by the house. Seeing the van in the driveway is when the Petitos knew in their guts that something was very, very, very wrong. Her father may even have knocked or rang the doorbell, but definitely would have called and told them that he was not accepting no word from them anymore. He likely threatened them with some sort of consequence if they didn't return his calls. JMO.
2) I don't think that it's a coincidence that her parents passed the panic threshold on the weekend of Sept. 11th. For those of us who are from NY and who were alive when that happened, the 20th anniversary loomed large. Almost all of us know someone who was killed, or know someone who escaped the towers, or know someone whose aunt died, etc. It was a very emotional time. Everything was a bit distracting in the lead-up that week. Lots of people were glued to their TVs. I think that in the days leading up, both parents went from being puzzled to worried to full-on panic, and were spurred into action by all of the emotion of the whole week. They may also have expected to hear from her at the latest, around them, because a lot of NY people check in with loved ones around the anniversaries of 9/11.
3) Based on the indictment saying that he criming in WY on or around Sept 30, I think both hitchhiking stories are true, and that he got back to the van sometime around 7-7:30. I think he probably used her ATM card in Colter Village, where he probably stocked up on a few provisions at the general store, took a shower to make sure to get rid of any physical evidence, and got a bunch of cash. Once back at the van, he made his plan to drive back, plotted his route, packed, washed things down as best he could, made sure that there was no evidence immediately around the van, and left Grand Teton. Then he went someplace within Wyoming, probably Jackson Hole since he'd already been there, and gassed up the van.
4) I think he took a more northern route home, driving through Illinois, because that's one of the routes suggested by google maps, and there was weather in the Gulf and South.
5) I believe he would have taken as much money as he could out of her account on each day that he had the card because of daily limits, which wouldn't allow him to drain it entirely.
All of the above is conjecture, none of it startling insights, but they are just things I've been mulling over as things have come to light over the last couple of days.
All of the above is JMO/IMHO.
1) The incident report called in by the Laundries on Sept 10 involving LP's father. This is coincident with when her mother became worried enough to try to file a missing persons report. My guess is that her mother called her father in distress at that point, and with the Laundries not taking calls from anyone in LP's family, her father decided to drive by the house. Seeing the van in the driveway is when the Petitos knew in their guts that something was very, very, very wrong. Her father may even have knocked or rang the doorbell, but definitely would have called and told them that he was not accepting no word from them anymore. He likely threatened them with some sort of consequence if they didn't return his calls. JMO.
2) I don't think that it's a coincidence that her parents passed the panic threshold on the weekend of Sept. 11th. For those of us who are from NY and who were alive when that happened, the 20th anniversary loomed large. Almost all of us know someone who was killed, or know someone who escaped the towers, or know someone whose aunt died, etc. It was a very emotional time. Everything was a bit distracting in the lead-up that week. Lots of people were glued to their TVs. I think that in the days leading up, both parents went from being puzzled to worried to full-on panic, and were spurred into action by all of the emotion of the whole week. They may also have expected to hear from her at the latest, around them, because a lot of NY people check in with loved ones around the anniversaries of 9/11.
3) Based on the indictment saying that he criming in WY on or around Sept 30, I think both hitchhiking stories are true, and that he got back to the van sometime around 7-7:30. I think he probably used her ATM card in Colter Village, where he probably stocked up on a few provisions at the general store, took a shower to make sure to get rid of any physical evidence, and got a bunch of cash. Once back at the van, he made his plan to drive back, plotted his route, packed, washed things down as best he could, made sure that there was no evidence immediately around the van, and left Grand Teton. Then he went someplace within Wyoming, probably Jackson Hole since he'd already been there, and gassed up the van.
4) I think he took a more northern route home, driving through Illinois, because that's one of the routes suggested by google maps, and there was weather in the Gulf and South.
5) I believe he would have taken as much money as he could out of her account on each day that he had the card because of daily limits, which wouldn't allow him to drain it entirely.
All of the above is conjecture, none of it startling insights, but they are just things I've been mulling over as things have come to light over the last couple of days.
All of the above is JMO/IMHO.
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