Hi! Been lurking for a few years @ websleuths but Alcala thread is new to me.
My mother was late teens/early 20's in SoCal at the time, but she says all her friends are accounted for.
Anyway, looking at the pdf of the photos http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2010/images/04/21/alcala.photos.pdf I saw similarities between upside down guy (on page 5) and the guy in photo on pg 77. Both have long dark hair, shirtless and seemingly similar bone structure. He's posed with the girl from photo 205, 209 & 220. These are the only pictures in woodsy areas and they seem to have similar flora.
I do think this is more a "backflip" pose. I do not think it's in the LE's MO to release images of the dead unless absolutely necessary. They went to great lengths to edit the sexually explicit materials, cropping the photographs, even though valuable details could be loss (ie birth marks, tattoos, scars etc).
My mother was late teens/early 20's in SoCal at the time, but she says all her friends are accounted for.
Anyway, looking at the pdf of the photos http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2010/images/04/21/alcala.photos.pdf I saw similarities between upside down guy (on page 5) and the guy in photo on pg 77. Both have long dark hair, shirtless and seemingly similar bone structure. He's posed with the girl from photo 205, 209 & 220. These are the only pictures in woodsy areas and they seem to have similar flora.
I do think this is more a "backflip" pose. I do not think it's in the LE's MO to release images of the dead unless absolutely necessary. They went to great lengths to edit the sexually explicit materials, cropping the photographs, even though valuable details could be loss (ie birth marks, tattoos, scars etc).