At the time of Anastasia's murder, one of the big mysteries was why she would choose to meet her boyfriend, Justin Bruton, at such an inconvenient spot as the Nelson Chapel ¹ in Mt. Washington Cemetery,² three miles from her house and a quarter-mile trek from the gate. Byron Case contended at his trial that it was Anastasia who wanted to meet Justin at that spot.³ According to Kelly Moffett's testimony, it was always Case's plan to meet at that cemetery and at that location.⁴ In an email to Anastsasia's family only months after the murder, Case conceded that he couldn't really remember whose choice it was, though he immediately tried to minimize its importance:

Subject: Still More Answers
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 14:00:58 -0600
From: Byron C Case

>> From what Anastasia told Francesca before leaving 
>> that Justin had called her earlier in the day and
>> asked her to meet him at Mt. Washington, not the 
>> other way around.

Anastasia may have called Justin ... Justin may have 
called Anastasia.  I honestly don't recall. It is a 
moot point ... either way they talked to each other.5

Fewer than 12 weeks after the event, Byron Case admitted that he could not remember its salient details, that he could not remember whether it was Anastasia or Justin who initiated the meeting, and that he considered it an unimportant detail. When it was to his advantage to do so, however, he claimed that he could remember those details quite clearly, his inability to do so on other facts many, many other times during his testimony.

It does not make any logical sense that Anastasia would set such a meeting place: if it were she who had to convince Justin to meet her, it is not reasonable to believe that suggesting they meet at a place only marginally closer to his home would overcome his reluctance to then drive that distance to pick her up.

For the record, the shortest route from Justin's condominium to Anastasia's home was approximately 12.5 miles, while a trip from his place to the Nelson Mausoleum -- including the quarter-mile from the gate to the mausoleum itself -- would shave barely two miles from it. Further, since Anastasia did not have a car of her own, it also makes no reasonable or logical sense for her to offer to meet Justin anywhere if that meant that she would still have had to make her own arrangements for a ride to get there, an uncertain prospect at that time, and hope that Justin would then pick her up. Also, the exceptional anger she displayed at Justin's and Case's failure to meet her as promised ⁶ is a strong clue that it was Justin who had invited her.

In short, the reasonable conclusion is that had it been Anastasia who wanted to meet Justin, she would have either asked him to pick her up at her own home, or would have made arrangements for a ride all the way to his condo, or at least to the Plaza area where he lived. If it were Justin making the call, especially with Case's ulterior motive in play, asking her to meet them a distance from her home would make perfect sense, had everything gone according to plan: meet her in a lightly traveled area of a cemetery, commit the crime there and then claim when questioned to have been somewhere else entirely. No witnesses, the perfect crime.

Also, Case has been unable to offer any explanation for why they later returned to the exact same spot in Mt. Washington⁷ some time later; that fact is even harder to explain in light of the evidence that they had already taken Anstasia back to her house.⁸