In their original statements to police, Byron Case and Kelly Moffett stated that they and Justin Bruton picked up Anastasia at a Dairy Queen, took her to Mt. Washington Cemetery, and only stayed there a few minutes. Upon leaving Mt. Washington's north gate, they drove along the east side of that cemetery, and turned west on Truman Road, where Anastsasia got out of the car at the light near Truman and I-435.¹

According to Kelly's testimony in September 2000, they did all that up to the point that they turned off of Truman Road at the back entrance of Lincoln Cemetery,² drove up through the back entrance of Lincoln, stopped at a driving circle there, and got out. Byron Case shot and killed Anastasia there with a long-barreled weapon.³

What was not stated, but learned through evidence is that Justin did not drive directly from the DQ into Mt. Washington. He drove to Anastasia's house in Independence, and then drove to Mt. Washington. The purpose of the detour was to allow Anastasia to change her clothes.

A few days after Anastasia's murder, her family found a pair of light blue jeans and a pair of underwear belonging to Anastasia in the washing machine; as were almost anything that could be hopefully considered helpful evidence, the clothes were turned over to JCSD as evidence, and little thought was given to them for a long time afterward.

Defense Witness Dawn Wright testified that she had seen Anastasia wearing light blue jeans⁴ at the Dairy Queen; Wright also testified that Anastasia's menstrual period had started unexpectedly that afternoon, and that she had asked to borrow some feminine hygiene product from Wright,⁵ that Wright had provided a tampon⁶ to Anastasia. Wright was specific about it being a tampon as opposed to any other product, as it was the only kind she used herself.⁷

In Anastasia's autopsy, it was noted by the Jackson County Medical Examiner that she was wearing black denim pants and a sanitary napkin.⁸ The sanitary napkin was precisely the kind that Anastasia customarily bought for herself.

Until the pre-trial documents were released to the family following Byron Case's sentencing, the connection could not be made between the disparate pieces of evidence, as the family was unaware of the discrepancies between Ms. Wright's description and the medical examiner's findings. Those discrepancies are now known, and we can now infer from the "big picture" created from all evidence that Justin drove Anastasia to her home (no matter what the eventual intent for the evening) in order for her to change clothing, put on the sanitary napkin with which she was more comfortable, put her soiled clothing in the wash, and be ready to go out again, where, as Case's suggestion, he drove her back to Mt. Washington, where they had originally planned to kill her.⁹

What does all this mean? It means that Byron Case's story about going directly from the Dairy Queen into Mt. Washington to find a quiet place for Justin and Anastasaia to speak was untrue. It means that they took Anastasia to her home, where a conversation could have been held or she could have been dropped off, and that it was a deliberate decision to take her back to Mt. Washington, to the same spot they had asked her to meet them earlier. It means that the alibi Byron Case has always been giving, the alibi he convinced Kelly to parrot in his support, was always an absolute lie, always had a flaw, because he could never admit about their detour, and would not be able to explain it. It means that Byron Case lied about the murder from the very start.