Is there more to Tim Carpenter’s story? As many of you, I’ve listened to all the podcasts/documentaries/read the reports and based on what I’ve heard, he’s a character in this puzzle that doesn’t seem to fit. Please feel free to correct me on anything here. These are just some points of concern I’ve noted while following the case:

1.) Tim Carpenter drove a red truck w/ mass plates

2.) A red Truck with Mass plates was seen leaving Swiftriver Store (mile from accident) near the time of the reported crash

3.) He does not have a verifiable alibi for his whereabouts the night MM went missing.

4.) Maura’s last known call with Kathleen ended with Maura crying and was heard saying “my sister”.

5.) Episode 22 of the podcast Tim and Lance reference an interview Kathleen had done with 17 magazine within weeks after the crash. She allegedly describes the nature of that phone call and provides some insight as to why Maura may have been upset after the call. She claims it is because “she and TC were being threatened by an ex gf that TC owed money to.” (Link to article below)

17 Article

Side note: Also referenced in this article was a suitcase in the backseat of Maura’s car with that stuffed Monkey?! Why isn’t this mentioned in any other report? Is this the same monkey that is seen in the dorm room pictures hanging from the ceiling? Strange this was never referenced again anywhere else.

1. Tim was likely the main source of drugs, pills, alcohol etc. for Kathleen. Could he have been caught up with something worse that Maura was going to expose? Could he have known where she was going that night? Could he have even been following her?

7.) In Fred’s interview with Erinn (part 1) He states that a man named Jeremy Rathbun claimed to have seen a man wearing a mask, disposing of a “bundle of blanket” that was believed to be a decaying cadaver from his truck. He called the man “ stinkface” due to the overwhelming odor seemingly coming from the truck.

8.) Jeremy later adamantly identified “stinkface” as Tim Carpenter to Fred.

9.) Multiple psychics (including Lori Bruno) have referenced a “carpenter” and a red truck involved.

10.) If there’s any chance TC was in the area that night and came upon the scene shortly after the crash it certainly would be an opportunistic situation for MM to see a familiar face and jump right in after the accident without anyone noticing.

11.) TC drove with Kathleen to Maura’s dorm room the day after she went missing.

12.) Pills and booze were found in Maura’s car

13.) Could the $4,000 been needed for something other than a new car that weekend? Maybe helping K out of a bad situation?

Lastly, here’s a repost from the witness who saw the red truck at the Swiftriver Store shortly before the reported crash.

“I was walking that night about 7 p.m to the local store. As I was walking up the hill, a truck passed me and slowed down. When it got to the middle of the hill it stopped in the road. I immediately looked at the plate and noticed it was from Massachusetts. There is only 1 street light there and I could not tell how many people were in the vehicle. As I got closer to the truck it took off up the hill. When I rounded the corner to the store, I could see the truck in the driveway of the store. As I walked into the parking lot, which is well lit, the truck took off toward the crash site, (of course at that time I did not know there was a crash).

As for the red truck, it slowed, then stopped and waited for me to get closer, then took off up the hill. He did not leave the store parking lot in any sort of hurry.

When I entered the store I asked if she saw the people in that truck and she said no, no one had come in. I told her about them stopping in the hill. Then we just forgot about it. I stood in the store a while and was there when the police and ambulance went by. I never saw that truck again. The only way I can describe it is that it looked like someone who delivered wood. That was my first thought about it……..red, MA plates and delivered wood. Either having a wood body or even just slats in the body. It was not a king cab or extra cab. Just a regular truck. That is all I can tell you.”