The geographic implication is that she had spent time in Nevada — likely Las Vegas, given Boulder City’s proximity to that city — during the years before she settled in the Dallas area. Published accounts mention Nevada as one of the locations where she had lived under the Kennedy name. The Nevada mail drop may have been established during a period of Nevada residence and maintained as she moved on, or it may have been set up specifically to provide a non-Texas address for certain kinds of mail.
Investigators were unable to determine the specific purpose of the arrangement, and that uncertainty is reflected in the account here. It is a documented detail that fits the broader pattern of careful identity management without providing a definitive explanation of its specific function.
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## The ADHD Medication and What It Does Not Tell Us
Blake Ruff reported, in accounts shared with journalists, that Lori had taken medication that he understood to be for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder or Tourette syndrome. He was uncertain which, and his uncertainty reflects what an observer outside the medical relationship between a patient and a physician would typically know.
The mention of this medication in published accounts of the case has sometimes been interpreted as one of the clues to Lori’s character or history. This interpretation should be handled with care. ADHD is a neurodevelopmental condition that affects millions of adults, and its presence or absence does not explain or predict any of the specific choices that Lori made. It does not explain why she left Pennsylvania, why she assumed a false identity, why she maintained that identity through a marriage and a child, or what drove the deterioration of her marriage in 2009 and 2010.