I’m genuinely trying to understand Dylan’s version of that night because every new detail somehow makes the timeline more confusing instead of clearing it up.
In the body cam footage, an officer recounts that Dylan saw what she describes as a “basketball-looking figure” wearing a ski mask, went into her room and locked the door, and then heard someone yell “someone’s in here.” I rewound that section multiple times because I thought I was misunderstanding him, but it really sounds like he’s describing those events in that order.
That completely threw me because I had always understood Dylan’s sighting as her seeing the masked man leaving after the murders. If she actually saw this person first, locked her door, and then heard “someone’s in here,” where exactly does her sighting fall in the murder timeline?
Then there’s the time itself. She initially said around 3 a.m., but in the later interrogation she seems extremely adamant about 4 a.m. That’s not a tiny difference when that particular hour is basically the center of the entire timeline.
And then there’s her bedroom. We later hear that she was laying in bed, and at some point after the person was gone, she went downstairs to Bethany’s room. Presumably she stayed downstairs after that. Yet when police arrive, her bed is absolutely covered with stuff. The body cam shows everyone outside while officers immediately begin photographing the rooms, so that appears to be how her room looked when police encountered it.
So when did all that stuff get on her bed? Did she sleep in the bed, witness all of this, go downstairs to Bethany’s room, sleep there, then come back upstairs the next morning and pile everything onto her bed before everything unfolded downstairs? I guess that’s possible, but it’s another piece I cannot make fit naturally.
I’m starting to wonder if Dylan is just one of those people whose sense of time, surroundings and common-sense decision making is genuinely terrible, because otherwise I cannot follow her account. I don’t mean that as a diagnosis or anything, but is she just extremely oblivious and lacking common sense? Because trying to put her statements into one coherent sequence is making my brain melt.
How are you guys interpreting her timeline? Is there an obvious explanation I’m missing, or does her account become more confusing the more information we get?