This is strange. Was she stuck in the shed for a while? If so, why? Also, whoever carried (dragged) her body out of the apartment obviously had a hard time because of all the things that were found in the shed and in the yard. The file in her desk drawer was titled "Wicked Web". Could that be something she was working on for the Online Crime that Stillwater was talking about?
I wonder if somewhere in all that broken stuff was what was used to hit her in the head.

I wonder if the house was ransacked to make it look like a drug crazed fight? If a wine bottle is used to hit someone on the head and smashes and causes lacerations is that blunt force trauma or sharp force trauma?

Seems like Wendy may have been surprised when she arrived home and struck before she got inside. But, where is all the blood evidence? Trace elements? When the real estate arrived there was light rain maybe it had been raining harder prior to that and washed some evidence away. But if Wendy was in the shed there should be blood somewhere.

There doesn't seem to be any keys found either? I wonder if the killer took them? Was Wendy placed in her own car after being murdered and the killer drove that to dump the body? Tyre, (sorry), tire tracks would eliminate that theory or prove it.

I wonder if they were Willie's blood stained clothes in the bag found? I wonder if Carmen smokes?

I think that she probably found out some dark secrets and had it on the file. The house seems like a setup. why is their broken green glass broken all over the house. Was she pulled to the shed and the person got spooked by something to return later to move the body...

The stain on the kitchen throw rug, blue cotton, seems to match the shred of cloth in the shed. This would reinforce that the attack happened in the house/kitchen and she was then taken to the shed. (Not that there was any real doubt as to the sequence...) If she was bludgeoned to death (fractures with lacerations) would we expect a lot more blood at the place of death?
There are shattered plates in the kitchen but the sink seems to hold complete settings and pots for a dinner for two. Why weren't these easiliy available pieces thrown? More evidence of staging? Empty flour bag, cereal box, almost empty sugar. Are these contents thrown around? Three large, empty soda bottles in the living room. The 'liquid' found smeared about? Like the dishes, these do not appear to be 'organic' to a spontaneous conflict.
Her car had a number of empty plastic bags, quite a few with"Thank You" written on them. These type of bags are pretty ubiquitous, it is the type of bag the clothing was found in. There were also Square Books bags. One, she frequented the bookstore that Carmen worked at, and two, I still don't understand why the little girl thought there might be books in the "Thank You" bag when Square Books has a distinctive bag of it's own.

I'm thinking the killer ambushed her as she was getting home. Is this shed available to park a car into? I do think the house is a setup due to the fact that their is stuff in easy arm distance to be thrown like the plates in the sink that's a dinner date for 2.

Hi All, I'm new so hopefully commenting on the right things here. Also catching up on the other evidence so hopefully nothing I haven't read contradicts me

The fact that the left and right sandal was found in different locations suggests she has lost one whilst running or trying to get away from someone. As the right sandal was found in the yard by her bag suggests to me she ran from the yard to the shed loosing her shoe and bag in the process and lost her left sandal in the shed, possibly where the murder was committed. If the murder was committed in the shed the body could easily be loaded into the back of a car in the carpool to be taken and hidden elsewhere.

Noticeably missing is all electronic storage. Where is the laptop / pc / tablet / flash drive that you would expect to be found in an office? I've read the interview of Anil Virani when he states she contacted him needing advice; was this because she had in her possession some key evidence (kept on electronic storage) that someone would kill for?

Reading the inventory that there were knifes, forks etc for two people made me think the murder happened over dinner but that would make no sense as to why she was out in the yard with her bag. If she was out in the yard then made a run for it could she have been coming back into the house from somewhere? Could she have come into possession of something over dinner, phoned Anil, been out and then been attacked when she returned home (someone waiting for her).