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, 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 Mt. Washington Cemetery.⁽²⁾ According to Kelly Moffett's testimony, it was always Case's plan to meet at the cemetery.⁽³⁾ In an email in 1998 to Anastsasia's family, Case conceded that he couldn't really tell, 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.(4) 
It is a moot point ... either way they talked to each other.

Three months after the murder Case admitted that he couldn't remember the details of this fact, that he could not remember whether it was Anastasia or Justin who made the call. When it was to his advantage to do so, however, he claimed to remember those details quite clearly, despite having claimed to have trouble remembering specific details many, many other times during his testimony.

It does not make any logical sense that Anastasia would set such a meeting place: if she had to convince a reluctant Justin to meet her, how would suggesting they meet at a place only three miles closer to him convince him to drive that marginally shorter distance to pick her up? For the record, the shortest route from Justin's condo to Anastasia's home was 12.5 miles, while a trip from his condo to the Nelson Mausoleum (including the quarter-mile from the gate to the mausoleum itself) would shave only two miles from it. Further, since Anastasia did not have a car of her own, it further makes no logical sense for her to offer to meet Justin anywhere if that meant that she would then have then have had to make arrangements (an uncertain prosepect) for a ride to get there.

In short, one must assume 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 house, 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 the cemetery, kill her 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. Washington⁽⁵⁾ some time later, after having already taken Anstasia back to her house.⁽⁶⁾