The two supposedly sent 50,000 or more text messages during the missing 5 months. 5 months is 100 working days. They sent 500 texts a day?
How is that even imaginable? At 15 seconds each, that is 500 / .25 minutes.
We pay them what, now?
The 50,000 figure was the number of known messages prior to the discovery of the five month gap.