[JLS]

If you go back and read my posts, you'll see that I was speculating on how the defense knew the service was terminated the next day. How else would the defense know that, unless the boys had tried the number? The search warrants weren't even issued until the 16th!

That phone might have been the contact number they were given for Mangum or both dancers that night. They might have tried that number the next day and found it disconnect and never even noticed that phone in the yard.

[Alia]

That phone might have been the contact number they were given for Mangum or both dancers that night. They might have tried that number the next day and found it disconnect and never even noticed that phone in the yard.

Yours is ringing bells for me. I'd have to go through a zillion posts to find that data.