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What's near the mall is acres of parking lots, all of which would be sparsely populated late at night and ideal for anyone who wanted to get an inebriated young woman into a car. (On the other hand, the last time I visited, I recall noticing lots of CCTV cameras.)

Fellini's is a pretty up-scale place. I used to live two blocks from there. Might be deserted in the early morning hours, but not a bad neighborhood.

"Police also confirmed Wednesday that Graham made it to the Charlottesville downtown mall by 1 a.m. Saturday. Police say a witness sitting in a car near Fellini's restaurant say Graham turn from Market Street onto the downtown mall around 1 a.m. Police are now looking for surveillance video from...

It's a downtown pedestrian mall, not an enclosed shopping mall...

Ch. 29 news "The search shifted Tuesday due to surveillance footage that showed Graham in front of McGrady's Irish Pub the night she was last seen. Search teams continued to look in the area of 14th and Wertland streets, but also moved east along Preston Avenue, near McGrady's. At one point...

Did I miss something? I don't think anyone has accused her of killing anyone.

The charge against NK is what the prosecution came up with immediately and with very little preparation on the day they discovered he was their man. It's consistent with what they think they might be able to prove, and serious enough to get him off the street -- and that was all they needed. My...

It wouldn't, alone. But it would be a sorry prosecutor who started with a missing child's DNA in a bunker and couldn't put the perp away. Of course, more evidence would be necessary (and more evidence is apparently being collected), but it's hard to imagine defending against a legit DNA sample...

Circumstantial evidence alone is not proof, but the right collection of circumstantial evidence, skillfully presented, can certainly bolster a case. I agree that DNA alone won't convict him, but, given the likelihood that it would be augmented by other evidence, I think that (apologies to...

If they could prove she was in that storage container (and the indisputable facts are that she was a child and was missing), I think they could combine that with circumstantial evidence (maybe receipts for items purchased, etc.) to build a pretty persuasive case. I can't quite imagine NK's...

An offense could include physically touching her, using threatening words -- probably even keeping her out of school.

Given that AH is a child, if they find physical evidence of AH's presence in the storage unit, such as hair samples, DNA, etc., I think they would have a slam-dunk case without ever asking her to testify.

IIRC, the prosecutor mentioned in the first hearing that the court was aware of one of the rooms in the storage container. That implies that some assertion was made by the prosecution to the judge, perhaps in getting a search warrant, that has not (yet) been articulated in a formal charge...

I spent many years writing and editing newspaper articles about many hundreds of criminal cases and nothing about the legal squabbles in this case seems particularly unusual to me. 1) Typically, in a complicated case, the suspect is arrested on a holding charge -- the minimum charge that the...

I may have missed something, but… is this the first time the prosecution has alleged that NK committed crimes on his property? (That's not what he is currently charged with.)

Yes! That sounds consistent with the picture of NK that is emerging.

Off-topic(?) Okay, this is weird. Did anyone else notice? When I click to come to the top of this thread, there's an ad for… wait for it… storage containers, with pictures that look very much like the one in question.

Dumpsters typically don't have a roof (that's how you load them, through the top). This would be even more strongly constructed than a big dumpster and designed to withstand storms at sea, clamped down to the deck of a cargo ship. A standard length is 20 feet, although they come in other sizes...

"…he was a talented sketch artist who always obsessed about girls with dark hair and drew them with their hands tied behind their backs." Conway Daily Sun

Standard size apparently is 20 feet long. More here.