Welsh Chappie wrote:
Well the dealer may have been infuriated by Darlene having bought Mageau along, that maybe why he first pulled in, observed Darlene for a short time, before leaving. Maybe he was trying to see who the second person in her vehicle was, and when he didn't recognize him, sped away in absolute anger. Dealers don't like to do deals when there are people present they do not know.
Or maybe it wasn't drugs. Maybe, as the rumours have long persisted, Darlene had reason to fear a certain man because she knew something she shouldn't and maybe that night she had had enough and arranged to meet this man to threaten that if he didn't back off then she'd go to the law with what she knows, and this accounts for Mageau's presence that night, hoping it would deter any violence or harm directed at her. This could be what Darlene said was important and needed to talk to Mike about?
Then there were the strange phone calls to Dee's home shortly after the murder. I can't accept that these calls were simply coincidence and were noting to do with Dee's murder, but that is only my opinion. If it were the killer calling, how would he know Darlene's home number? Even to look her number up in a phone book he'd need to know her name first.
Unless someone convinces me that they were buying/selling pounds of weed out there (which rarely goes on at a park frequented by teenagers and cops), I'm just not going to buy the whole drug dealer shot their customer over a dime bag of weed. I'm not saying it's impossible, of course, but I'm not buying.
If Darlene decided to go confront some crazy dude in a secluded area with the one of the smallest persons she could find (Mike), then she wasn't very smart.
Here's another thing. I'm not convinced that there were any mysterious phone calls to Darlene's home. Not in the police report. Dean's parents are in the police report as having received calls, but not Darlene's family or home. I also don't really have any reason to believe the whole "saw something she shouldn't have". I don't know if I should say this or not, but it seems someone in that family has an active imagination. Just my opinion, and not meant to ruffle feathers.