If I'm reading the call log correctly, Teresa did not pick up the call. Steven used *67 and apparently abandoned the call.
Its always bee suspicious to me that
1) He placed the order in Barb Janda's name but also her phone number.
According to Auto Trader he has never done that before. why?
The only other person who dealt with A.T. In the past is Tom Janda. There is conflicting information whether Tom lived there at the time or not but:
1) Barb wasn't at the appointment nor was she ever planning to be at the appointment. Yes, it is Barb's van but Steven knows Barb does not deal directly with A.T. And Barb is at work.
2) Steve is anxiously calling the facilities about Jodi. Steve is also anxiously trying to get an ETA from Teresa knowing full well that he put the order AND phone number in Barb's name.
The *67 calls are significant to me because:
1) they suggest some motive for wanting to hide his identity. One has to consciously decide to mask their phone # using *67
2) if he abandoned the 2nd *67 call he could have been becoming increasingly anxious. Why doesn't he walk next door and ask "hey, has anybody from Auto Trader called?" He doesn't do that.
If you believe the character references of his ex wife and ex girlfriend and consider what we do know as fact about his propensity to violence towards women and understand how these compulsions escalate, it is not a far stretch at all that he could have killed her.
It could have been a crime of passion because he was rejected. It could have been something he had fantasized about. It could have been an accident. We will never know unless Steven tell us himself but there are many motives. The mind of a killer is fascinating precisely because we don't understand it. Many viewers ask "Why would a man about to become a multi millionaire kill someone?" What if he commit suicide? We might ask the same questions but be more willing to accept because for the reasons above he turned on himself and not somebody else.
I think the timing of this day, the phone going dead at 4:35 after a call that he did not *67, Fabian's testimony about the burning barrel that smells like plastic (what motive does he have to lie?) Barb calling for Bredan to wear a jacket, Brendan's cleaning a stain in the garage and his bleached jeans.
How is all of this explained without extraordinary reasonable doubt that he didnt do it?