Maybe I am missing something so hopefully you guys can help me out. The clothes that Tara wore to the barbecue the night she disappeared were found in her apartment. This means that she took her clothes off after she came home. It seems unlikely that she would have taken her clothes off and then found Ryan Duke hiding in the apartment. Furthermore, the clothes were not torn so they were not forcibly removed. So, it seems likely that she came home and took her clothes off and then Ryan either broke in or she let him in and then he killed her. Either way, there seems to be a sexual motive here. Otherwise, why go through all the trouble of burning the body?
He says he broke in and she surprised him and he strangled her, right? Well then why not just leave? It seems to me that either he broke in with the intention of raping her and then burned the body to hide his DNA or she let him in (because he was a former student of hers. she knew him and correct me if I'm wrong, but they had been in contact, in some capacity,, outside of school since he had graduated.) Either way, he knew she lived there.
I don't believe he was breaking into rob her. He wasn't just breaking into a random place. Furthermore, why wouldn't he have taken the $100 cash that was in her car?
What I'm getting at here is that there seems to be some type of sexual motive that he is not disclosing. She wouldn't have had time to take her clothes off if she had came home and caught him in the act of robbing her. I know he was supposedly really drunk that night, but to me this just makes it all the more likely that he would have either went there with the intention of raping her or have gone there with the intention of seeing her and then shit went bad because she rejected his advances or something.
Am I missing something here? Do I have all the facts correct? Please feel free to poke holes in my theory.
