It's interesting that the police suggest, if I interpreted part 2 of SM's testimony correctly, that CM's Maroon Frontera was spotted parked at the NB rd entrance to the RDP @ 1715 on 30.06.03. One wonders if that time is accurate and who may have been driving the Frontera. I am a bit skeptical of the veracity of this info, but, at the same time, it's a possibility (it could, of course, have been mere coincidence since CM came home that way from work sometimes?? Maybe the car wasn't parked as such, but merely CM was driving home on NB rd??). Maybe LM had texted either his mother or brother as soon as he murdered Jodi (ie at 1710ish) and asked for help in some way (either requesting a lift back to the house or a change of clothes). Such a strange case.
LM must've murdered that girl almost immediately when they entered the woodland strip. I do wonder if he was beckoning her down that path (his hands gesticulating this, as per AB's testimony) so he could murder her (premeditated) or if he was getting angry with her because she wouldn't go to nb with him, in which case he snapped and murdered her (admittedly, he did have a short fuse & bad temper, and was used to getting his own way . . . and plus they'd been arguing/had a fall out in school earlier that day, so there could have been a lot of pent-up emotions from earlier on, too).