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But you still know this man is charged with abusing her. And she's got an open case against him and she's just about to
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leave him when she and her kid suddenly die, which is why I assume they worked so hard to establish his alibi. But two
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little points of clarity. Number one, it's unclear if Shawn knew that she was actually going to be leaving for good.
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So, a lot of the people knew that she was going to be spending the evening of March 7th packing up for a trip that her
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and the kids were going to go on on the 8th. >> She told a few friends and family,
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including Shawn, that this was just like a temporary thing, though, that she was
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just going to care for a good friend in Oregon who'd gotten diagnosed with cancer. And that part was true. Her
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friend's name was Khloe Bole. And Summer had like booked Airbnbs along the route
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to Oregon. She even wrote her kids school saying that they would be away for 3 weeks due to a family emergency.
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But it was after Summer died that Chloe reached out to her family to tell them the full plan. That Summer was coming to
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help. Sure, yes. But she did not think Summer intended to go home. She wasn't making the trip just because she was a
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good friend. She said that Summer had been planning this for months. She had gotten her tax return. She'd gotten some
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cash. She was going to take the kids and leave Shawn and move in with her. So that's thing one. Number two, yes, she
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had an active case against him, but guess what? Those charges all got dropped after the fire in March 2023.
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So, none of this answers the logistical questions we had earlier. Like, not how did this fire get started, but the why?
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I mean, was it an accident? Purposeful? I mean, this is timing that literal research says should not be ignored. All
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right. And yet this case is a closed case.