Didn't the judge say yesterday that he was killed on Tuesday?
Nancy Grace said the judge did. I didn't hear it. That's why Sharyn Everitt's account of Mary driving down the street (or "storming," whichever is the truth) was so important, in my mind.
If it was Tuesday, so what? If it was Wednesday, then we have a better timeline. Mary told the cops in Orange Beach that she shot Matthew on Wednesday, then fled. I took that to mean that she started driving straight through to the Gulf Coast. Doesn't mean she did, but the cops seemed to think so, because they first said her husband had just been killed a few hours earlier.
It was a 6-7 hour drive if straight through. We haven't heard that she stayed anywhere the night before (as if the shooting happened in the evening Tuesday night), but she could've pulled over anywhere and everyone slept in the van. She could've dawdled driving through MS and AL, too. With kids, she would have to stop a few times, I'm sure.
She had $3 and some credit cards with her, I've *heard.*
There were lots of bad reports in the news about it being 28 hours before his body was found -- even the TBI spokesperson or the OB cops said that, I believe. That was NOT from when he was shot *disclaimer: as far as we know* but from when he was last sighted.
That came from a wrong extrapolation of the last known time that Matthew was seen alive, which was *allegedly* around 3:15-3:30 PM on TUESDAY afternoon, walking the dog in a park near their house.
Others got it confused and thought it was Wednesday afternoon, just 6 hours before they found his body. No way. The phone and door were already going unanswered at 7:00 PM, when the prayer meeting was to have started. Mary had already held the kids home from school on Wednesday, so we know that whatever happened had either already happened or was about to happen.
The Everitt neighbors said the dog barked all day long and into the evening on Wednesday. I'm going to *trust* their timing on that one. They also said they looked that direction, towards the Winkler house, and still saw the van there "up on the hill." BUT, they did not say how late into the day they saw it there. That's another timeline item I'd like to know. It would have made a LOT more sense to have Sharyn Everitt say she saw Mary "storming" down the street at a certain time on Wednesday, rather than Tuesday. That would've been the time for the "getaway."
As it is, now Everitt just says she saw Mary driving towards the school at a time to pick up the girls. She seemed to think, when interviewed the first few times, that Matthew had been killed on Tuesday, because of the media reports. That would have been Tuesday, because that's when the girls *were* in school and did stay for after-care and Mary *did* pick them up at around 5:45PM. On Wednesday, Mary wouldn't have been going to get the girls, because they were at home.
It is entirely possible that she killed him before midnight Tuesday night, so that technically it was Tuesday, but that's not what she told the Orange Beach cops.