Based on the video, it doesn't seem like this witness was close enough to tell whether there was a window smashed out or not. But in the podcast at the bottom of the below article, Nicole Partin, Investigative Reporter for CrimeOnline, says she spoke to a female witness who was traveling the same road and saw the abandoned car. The witness said at least one of the windows was smashed on the car, and that she made a 911 call to report it. Starts at about 23:33.
Missing southwest Kansas women update: OSBI says it's a challenging case
OSBI gives the latest updates on the case of two missing women from south west Kansas and why this investigation is tricky.www.kake.com
(KAKE) - New video a viewer sent KAKE News shows the scene where the abandoned car was found that Veronica Butler and Jilian Kelley were last seen in.
Derek Releford was driving to the grocery store when he passed it. It shows dozens of law enforcement officers on the side of the road looking around.
"We saw the abandoned car with doors open and police presence on the other side of the road," said Derek Releford when talking about what he saw when coming across it.
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If the doors were standing open and a window smashed, perhaps other signs of crime, as a woman I certainly would NOT stop nor check it out but would call 911. There is too much going on today to endanger yourself by leaving your vehicle to inspect something that looks like a crime scene.
100% my thought too. I also agree with CuriousCricket’s take about timing potentially playing a role in this being the chosen spot too. Maybe not even because of a hope that it would take awhile to be found, but just that it felt the most feasible of all disposal options… so I don’t think the car’s placement rules out someone known to them the way I’ve seen theorized.. MOO
I feel like this is why they took a few days to call it foul play. While there's tests that can show if it's human or animal blood on scene, a more detailed analysis of the blood supposedly found to be human would take a few days.
Based on the video, the driver was going north on 95 and the police vehicles were on the west side of L Rd near the intersection with 95. I originally thought the car was found on NO620 Rd which is a few hundred feet south on 95. After viewing the video, I realized the angle was wrong for it to be NO620 Rd.
Yes same way cops do pit stops, overtake and push off road
A very large police presence there right away. The two pastors coming down from Kansas right away. I still wonder if one of the women was able to get hold of one of the pastors, or the pastors couldn't get hold of them, and a pastor called the police and described the women and car. Then the police combining that info with the 911 call about the abandoned KIA (and possibly their knowledge of the parties involved) realized what was likely happening and got all hands on deck right away.
