4. A couple weeks after the Airport incident Lisa and I go to San Jose again - I have two dental appointments and Lisa can buy construction stuff. My second visit is to be a long one. From 1 PM to 4, maybe longer.

I pay the desk clerk to write down Lisa's comings and goings while I'm gone. (By now I am truly obsessed - wouldn't you be?)

I omitted the guy-with-the-broken-leg part of this story since it was not relevant.

I'm at the dentist until past 5. I get back and to my surprise the desk guy tells me Lisa is not back yet from shopping. I call the cell; it's now 5:50. She's a half hour away, still dealing with buying stuff. She gets back to the hotel at 6:30. By her account she'd been doing this shopping since 1:30 - 5 hours.  

She'd sent me an email (from a café) at 1:30, saying she had forgotten something at the hotel (close by) and was going back to get it then go shopping (the hotel stop would take about 10 minutes). I got this email the next day.

Why would she send me an email while I'm in the dentist chair telling me a detail like she's going back to the hotel for a minute and then going shopping? At that time, 1:30, Lisa should not have known she was going to be late. And there was no way I'd get the email until the next day anyway. So why send it? Made no sense if all was as she said. As far as she should have been thinking, she would get back to the hotel after shopping way before me, and could then tell me in person this little detail about returning to the hotel for a minute.

The desk clerk told me this: Lisa went out around 1:30 all right (the time of the email was indeed 1:30), quickly returned to the hotel (as she said she would in the email), but: she remained in the hotel for almost 2 hours, then left (to go shopping). And I called her on the room phone at about 3 from the dentist. No answer. The desk clerk also called the room. No answer. Lisa was in the hotel all right, but not in our room. (Or if she was in our room she wasn't answering the phone.)

And she told me she just stopped by the hotel to pick up the part she forgot, then immediately went out shopping. Took 5 hours to do stuff that maybe should have taken 3 hours at most. The missing two hours? She was with her boyfriend in another room is the logical explanation. (Same scenario as the Balmoral time, when she came in with only the room key and was probably in another room with her boyfriend.) Otherwise why lie about when she left the hotel?

She'd sent the email as an alibi (even though I wouldn't get it until the next day) - she forgot something and would be delayed in her shopping trip. (Lisa went on and on about taking buses as why it took so long. Well, she knew she would have to go to three stores and be loaded with stuff, so the logical thing would be to hire a cab, for 5 bucks - in this case the total traveling time would have been no more than an hour. Figure a max of 2 hours in the stores and we're left with a missing two hours, the amount of time the clerk says Lisa was in the hotel but not in our room or not answering the phone.)

Can I prove that Lisa didn't take buses instead of a cab and somehow took 5 hours to this shopping? Could the desk clerk have been mistaken? (The hotel lobby is tiny, by the way. You can't miss comings and goings, plus I'd paid him well, plus he knew very well what Lisa looks like.)

I'm taking the word of someone who could have been mistaken, true. But it's unlikely. Not impossible, just very unlikely. So this one isn't like the other three above, in terms of probability. It's not zero chance that I'm wrong. But if you take everything into consideration (the nonsense email, the missing hours, the other 3 incidents, etc), it's pretty obvious what happened.

What happened is I left the hotel around 12:30, after you call and wake me up from a nap.

I walk back to the hotel.

(In trying to explain how the desk guy didn't recognize her when she went right back out, she said, "I think I changed clothes when I went back to the hotel." This made no sense - she went out for 15 or so minutes, came back for a forgotten item and decided to change her clothes? But aside from that - I pointed out she was still wearing the clothes from when I left. So she says, "Oh. Right. I guess I didn't change clothes."  So I thought I might have changed clothes.  I did that one day I was there, it was cold and I was underdressed.

It was cold in San Jose, Costa Rica. Riiiight.

Another time in trying to explain the missing two hours she said maybe she took a nap when she went back to the hotel to get the thing she forgot. I never said that. Yes she did. I did not take a nap. I know she didn't take a nap: she merely said she did as a way of explaining the missing time. I got my stuff, I peed and I left.  I was in the hotel maybe half an hour, tops.  Then I went back to the bus to Uruca, but instead of taking the slow crosstown bus I just walked to the area where the buses wait, and then I went.  To Reimers, then across the street to La Costa, then to Samsung, then to Bosch, then I try to get a cab (but can't so I take the bus) to that town on the hill where the GE warehouse is.  Then I take a cab back to the hotel.  

Can you picture this? You go out, realize you forgot something, then quickly go back… and decide to take a nap?

There was no nap. Again: I know there was no nap, but Lisa said there was. A not thinking giveaway that she was lying.

Point here is: if Lisa has to make up multiple absurd, self-contradictory stories about the missing hours, then she was lying about where she was.)

While I was in a dentist chair going through the worst physical pain of my life, she was with her boyfriend. Nice image. If you have another theory based on the above, let me know.

I was not fucking some guy while you were in the dentist chair. We have to take her claim of innocence in context (as described in my book and backed up on my website): Knowing all we now know - the events since the writing of this in October of 2004 - can anyone doubt that Lisa was with her "boyfriend" while I was at the dentist?

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