Good points, but one flaw. Chandra did not have a ticket - either by plane or train - as of the time she disappeared. She told her landlord she planned to be out about May 5th I believe. So it would have been 4-5 days longer that she planned to live there. In the past Condit had allowed her to use his frequent flyer miles to go home to visit her family. That's why, (IMHO), there's a lot of speculation that she had met him, (or believed she was going to meet with him), to get a ticket from him for her trip home.
All the records, (credit card, etc), had been checked. She surfed websites for Amtrak and the airlines but no ticket was purchased. Her parents had confirmed this at the time.
Her e-mail to them on May 1st said that she was still undecided about how she was getting home and when exactly she would be there and that she would let them know.
Thanks for the additional info. You and others here know a lot more about this case than I. I agree that it would have been odd to pack herself up 5 days in advance or even to clean the apartment up that far ahead of time.
In the past Condit had allowed her to use his frequent flyer miles to go home to visit her family. That's why, (IMHO), there's a lot of speculation that she had met him, (or believed she was going to meet with him), to get a ticket from him for her trip home.Thanks -- I didn't know about the frequent flyer miles. According to the timeline linked at #87 above, Condit told Connie Chung that Chandra told him on April 28 that she was going to take the train home. Obviously not true, or she would have told her parents when she e-mailed them on May 1.