I watched that whole bodycam video and honestly they both seem like good kids. She has some anxiety issues but some of my favorite humans on earth have anxiety issues. Brains don’t always play nicely with their hosts.
Here’s the thing though. As much as I hope I’m wrong, the fact that he drove all the way back to Florida alone and clammed up likely means she’s dead. If she’s simply missing, there’s no way he does that. Even if he’d had enough of the relationship he’d at least help find her, whether for her sake, her family’s sake, or just being a decent human. Again, he seems like a generally good guy.
So I have to think he’s knows she’s dead, likely witnessed it, possibly had a hand in it. Even if she did it herself or he was responsible in a self-defense situation, it could easily be a case where he knows he could easily be rung up for it, or at least have his life ruined. Or she went at him and he overreacted. Or he wasn’t a good guy after all, got all raged up and killed her. Who knows.
I think something happened that ended up with her dead, with or without his active involvement, and he called his family because he was freaking out and didn’t know what to do. Because of the legal tussle days before, they knew he was in dire straits if he reported it and told him to drive straight home and don’t breathe a word. The family attorney likely called him on the road and reiterated that.
The fact that he didn’t call local authorities tells me there was no help to be gained, she wasn’t badly injured, she wasn’t missing, she was clearly dead. So he calls trusted loved ones first instead. Even if she took her own life while he watched, the domestic violence incident throws suspicion his way. Same with an unfortunate accident. And of course if he straight up did it.
Holing up and not talking to police is a self-protective tactic that you only use if there’s a fatal outcome you already know about. Makes me sad, again they seem like good kids.
