I've been out of action for a few days while my partner had surgery, so it's taken a while for me to catch up on everything (I had to catch up on pretty much this entire thread). A couple of my quotes may be from many many MANY pages back from this reason, so bear with me.
If anything you just don't want to tip off the suspects. In case they, ya know, decide to create a WS username for a minute and then delete it just to pop by and read this
Then again, couldn't they view this thread without creating a user name anyhow?
I believe it's happened here in cases before - the perp had been posting here along with everyone else, and so knew everything that we were theorizing. Most google searches of a missing person's name will list Websleuths in (at least) the top 5 matches, so I usually assume that possible POI's or suspects are reading along with whatever we're posting.
If I really wanted to get to my BF's house, no one would be able to talk me out of going, especially if I was going in a cab and not driving. At 19 I did what I wanted to do. I would never have walked down the street, anywhere, at 4:30 am, unless there was absolutely no other alternative for me. If she was going to the AM/PM, as we all surmise she was, I don't think it was her idea to go there. I think it was someone else's idea.
JMHO
BBM - For this very reason, I think it's highly likely that Adrienne DID decide to walk to the AMPM, to avoid the judgment of her friends at her persistence to meet up with her BF. Slightly O/T, but when I was around this age, I was at a party with my room mates, one of whom wanted to go home pretty badly. We told her we'd only be about another half hour (so we could get all our things together and say goodbye to everyone) so she should wait until we were ready to go so we could all catch a cab together, but instead she snuck out the front door and started the walk on her own. This walk was a fairly long one, along a deserted and dark road, which I would certainly not be walking down on my own... but she was determined and had no problem with putting herself in that kind of danger. Some young people just don't consider how dangerous certain situations can be, especially at that age where you think you're indestructible. Add alcohol and adrenaline from a car accident on top of this, as well as it almost being daybreak (thus giving a false feeling of 'safety' - ie. almost daylight when it seems less likely for something bad to happen), and it isn't really a stretch to believe that Adrienne was happy to make this walk on her own. I guess what I'm trying to say is it's not something that I
personally would ever do, but I have known many people who would.
Just imo. As a young adult and probably more aware of my surroundings. I always bring my ID with me.. just in case i need it, to get in bars/clubs, something happens to be so i can be identified, police asking for it cause i don't look my age. Not that i would need it now because of an distinctive tattoo.
on the other hand, my bf used to always leave his ID/wallet.. or he's always losing it! So usually everywhere we go or leave I ask "You have your ID?" to get him in habit of doing it.
I agree that she would have usually carried her ID around with her, considering she was only 19 and would need it quite often, but I think that she left it at home on purpose just in case LE were looking for her after her accident. I assume that her car was registered in her name, so LE would have known who the car belonged to and thus would have had a fair idea who was driving (and who to look for). We know that LE didn't really investigate the 911 call very thoroughly, but I can imagine Adrienne would have been quite shaken up, and worried about being caught driving under the influence. She probably didn't really want any contact with LE at all, she didn't want it to stop her from getting to her boyfriends place.
I don't recall ever having to talk to a cab driver or cab company two times equaling 7 minutes when I've called for a cab ride. I also do not ever in my life recall having to wait over 5 minutes longer than their estimated time of arrival. Not ever! Maybe not even!
I agree. Also, it's definitely not standard practice here for a cab company to call you before they arrive. With some of the bigger companies you can now ask for them to send you a text message when the cab is 5 minutes away, but usually they just show up and if you're not there within 5 or so minutes they leave. I understand that the little cab companies would do things differently, but I'm also surprised at the amount of contact these cabbies seem to have with their passengers.
JMO, MOO, etc :twocents:
