I would be lying if I said this case doesn't have me shook up. It does. Big time.
For one thing, it was so horrible. Such a beautiful girl, such an amazing young woman, with her whole life ahead of her, brutally murdered.
And only a few blocks away from me.
We shopped at the same grocery stores, probably had our cars washed at the same car wash, frequented many of the same restaurants and night spots (I know from her FB pics) and traveled the same streets probably on a daily basis.
To my knowledge I never met her but she looked very familiar so I'm pretty sure our paths have probably crossed at one time or another.
It makes me deeply sad and it makes me fearful to know there's a killer like this on the loose.
It was one thing when Adrienne Salinas went missing from this area (not as close but not that far away) but the circumstances were so much different. Sadly, we will never know what happened to Adrienne, unless they someday catch her killer.
Those who were here on this thread during the time of her disappearance and when her badly decomposed body was eventually found, remember how terribly frustrating the entire situation was.
There were many of us here at each other's throats because our opinions were so passionate and we were all desperate to see the perpetrator brought to justice. I don't want to see that happen here with Allison's case and I don't see it happening because it simply isn't the same kind of case.
In Adrienne's it seemed like it might have been an "opportunistic" crime. But Allison's was, according to LE, targeted. Not random, not opportunistic, not happenstance, not a serial killer.
A horrible, brutal, gruesome crime so unspeakable that LE doesn't even want to give us COD or MOD details for fear it will jeopardize the investigation.
I can't hardly sleep at night because my mind is going a hundred MPH trying to put the few pieces of this puzzle (that are available to me, to us) together.
I'm sad. It makes me so very sad. Thank you to everyone here who comments or has input. I just want to cry it makes me so sad.
I feel so sorry for her friends and family. If any of them are reading this I want them to know my heart goes out to them.
I wish there was more I could do. I feel so helpless.