Day #30 is HERE

Contributor Vegas Guy has some insight which is aligning with some professional information we are vetting:
~ Via Vegas Guy ~
We have been looking at this for a month now. Dead end after dead end but plenty of connections have been made. None seem to be a direct connection to both her & the crime as yet.
Auntie Sha Sha [Charlotte Wilkerson] statement of “something went wrong” certainly indicates to me that a plan was in place & had a particular outcome anticipated. And that outcome went astray. There is a connection here somewhere & the car has to be a big factor. More so than Jessica IMO.
I will break this down to 2 posts & attempt to outline some “strange” behavior on the part of some of the players at M&M that night that show up on footage. Maybe someone can spot a “planned” sequence verses total random “coincidences”.
IMO we are “missing” something that shows up on the video footage. There is a connection that we have not made. All the odd coincidences. The first big oddity I see is the “bumming of a smoke”. After viewing that segment 100 times I keep seeing Jessica NOT knowing the person (s) that call her over. I’d be happy to show how I came to that conclusion. Analysis of the footage, IMO, makes it quite clear.
I see it as a diversion for some particular reason. There was Q&A going on, Jessica makes indications of “direction” towards the Hwy, she very reluctantly finally goes over. She is out of view for about a minute. Far longer time than necessary to hand out a bummed smoke. There are numerous “body language” clues that support this. She was not asked for a handout.
Second odd coincidence is gas can guy. He is in the store well before Jessica arrives. We see him at the counter, actually appearing to be killing time. He does pay for the gas. He counts out $5 or $6 & hands it to the clerk just before leaving. So it does not appear he (they – including the female with him) purchased anything else other than the gas. Yet that $5 or so purchase took well over 2 minutes as we do not know exactly when he arrived. An odd amount of time to drop $5 on a counter & say “ $5 on pump 2”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxxyEHkOnhg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35YvBhPJfOo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4t0LA1FMkk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rR_Uyu5Tn8M
Here are other “odd” actions on his part. These are not normal actions for someone just getting a few dollars of gas for a generator. He places the gas can at the door rather than the pump he might intend to use. The pumps can not be seen from the counter area. He does not park near the pumps, but rather off in the darkness.
He walks off to where his vehicle is parked & where the female with him headed prior. We have to assume they did not walk to M&M. So there had to be a vehicle for them. He makes the purchase exactly when Jessica is back in view. He has an alibi & witnesses. The female with him appears to be headed to their vehicle to await him. Yet, between the time she walks off & the time he walks away from the pump, there is no appearance of vehicle lights coming on or a vehicle leaving or moving within that area.
Kedrick (custom rims) shows up while Jessica is still there. He meets up with a second male from a second truck (white). They chat a bit & are in close proximity to Jessica as she exit’s the store. Yet, there does not appear to be any acknowledgement between any of the 3. Is Jessica suppose to know this guy? Has a connection been made that shows she was acquainted? These 2 males, after talking at the entrance, then wander off towards the right, unlighted, portion of M&M. Same general direction as where Jessica was called to & same general direction that gas can guy moved off to. There vehicles are still there as Jessica drives off.
Third oddity. A White car comes to the entrance door just as Jessica pulls away from the pump. There was significant activity at the side of the van that had just driven off. At least 3 unidentified males congregated alongside the building & interacted with the van driver before he entered & drove off. These males stayed (hidden) at that location. The White car suddenly appears & the motions of that car indicate a pick up verses a drop off of passengers.
A light or White car had parked far off in the Motel section prior to Jessica arriving & the fur lined dark jacket male approached the store from that direction. Was that his car?
Jessica purchased additional gas, according to Ali. An analysis of her time at the pump confirms, IMO, that she did purchase $14 worth. I made a $14 purchase of gas at $2.39 & timed the pump. It took 38 seconds. That is well within the time range that she was actually at the pump, including removing / replacing gas cap & pump nozzle, starting & pumping, entering car, adjusting herself for driving, and actually driving off. IMO she did buy additional gas.

Ali claims she said she was going “someplace”. She could just as easily said “I have some extra cash” when asked about the larger than normal purchase. So if she did say she had a destination, & add the extra gas required, and the mystery calls back & forth to Mom, IMO, she was on a “mission” & was headed somewhere that was within a 50 mile round trip.
The footage does show her exiting & heading South. If she were going North, the opposite exit would have been the logical choice. The crime scene was Herron, & that is SW of the M&M. She calls Mom at 6:48PM. Logically, that call should have been while she was alone & possibly still driving. If so, then she traveled 18+ minutes minimum at that point.
If this analysis is accurate, she could have traveled 25 miles North or South on Hwy 51 or she could have driven to the end of Herron Rd & gone on to Benson Ave. We need to zero in on an approximate 25 mile radius (allowing for return to the crime scene) & determine any connections with people or places within that radius, including the so called “party”. Most of the “players” & locations ID’ed so far are well within this radius. The only option not yet explored is Benson Ave & any possible connection there.
Let’s take a fresh look at the data we have so far & see if there is something we missed.

IMO the car itself figures in more than is implied. I have a hard time accepting that injury or death of Jessica was the objective.
The car is the key and there is something we are not identifying. The seats reclined, the parking brake on, the tranny in park, the keys still present, the driver door ajar, staged off road facing a tree that it clearly never hit, an intense burn clearly accelerant fueled, all point to a planned arson. Car driven & placed with the interior saturated with fuel. Not necessarily a planned murder.
A planned & staged murder would logically have the victim already dead within the staging area if the objective was to cover up the murder. Her outside the car, phone & separated battery still at the scene, a mystery call within seconds of the burning, very quick response time ( and certainly anticipated by anyone living locally), from FD, all of which contributed to her still being alive at the time. Just not adding up to murder.
If they wanted this to be an arson to cover a murder, she would have been in the passenger seat or the rear seat and burnt beyond recognition or dead prior to the arson. Her being alive at the time if the crime implies that her death was not the objective IMO. Destruction of the vehicle was the primary goal. And someone or something interfered with that plan.
Connect the car & you connect the motive.