So strange how the case got an "tip" about the (male) remains being Elizabeth in 2012, does webslueths have any criminal psychologists that could look into a reason (profile) of why this person called it in? Or any ideas, cat n mouse? Need to "talk about it" ?
Anyhow found this from 2012, interesting, from JG I believe
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Posted September 30, 2012
A few weeks before she disappeared, she called my house about 11:00 PM and talked to my sister because I was gone with a friend of mine. Elizabeth told my sister to tell me she would meet me in front of the Redlands Community hospital at about 1:00 or 1: 30 AM because she had something very important to tell me.
That meant she would have to walk for several miles along many dark and deserted streets. My friend gave me a ride about half a mile from the hospital and I walked the rest of the way. I stayed on the other side of the street opposite the hospital for over an hour, yet I never saw Elizabeth.
She may have shown up but we didn't see one another. It was dark and cold and I sometimes climbed up into a tree. I thought I could see the area better from up there. I realize now I should have been standing in a different location and walking around there instead of standing pretty much in one spot and being up in a tree for a good part of the time. Maybe if I had yelled out her name, she would have heard me and we would have met together that night.
I tried to call her afterwards to find out what she wanted to tell me, but every time I called, someone would hang up the phone. I believe it was Liz's older sister who hung up on me because Liz told me that her sister didn't want me talking to her. (I never met or talked with the sister, but she knew I was nineteen.)
Then, on March 7, I began a hitch-hiking trip to New York City. She disappeared on March 18. But it wasn't until I returned home the next September that I heard Elizabeth had vanished. By that time, I had been inducted into the army. I simply thought that Liz had run away from home. I was concerned about her, but I also had the army and Vietnam to think about at that point. Within a couple of weeks of my return home, I was sent to the Induction Center in Los Angeles for a physical, and soon after that I found myself at Ft. Ord.
For the next year or so, I had no more knowledge of Elizabeth. When I did, it was about August of 1969 and I was in the stockade at Ft. Bliss, Texas, awaiting a court martial for going AWOL. Two detectives came there and asked me questions about Liz. They showed me a picture of Liz and asked me if I knew who it was. I said, "Sure, that's Elizabeth Ernstein--what happened to her?" They told me that Liz's mom thought Liz was with me! Her mom thought that Liz had run off with me when I left on my hitch-hiking trip, but of course that was not true.
A few months later, I was with my unit at the Robert E. Lee Barracks near Mainz, Germany.
https://clubadventist.com/forums/topic/35779-cold-case-partly-solved/
