I am not sure where that blogger gets the 6:30 time. First of all, I don't see that reported, although I may have missed it.
It seems unlikely IMHO. Most department stores don't open until 9 or 10. Even if she was to come in early she wouldn't have come in 2 hours early. I used to work retail and they wouldn't have product demonstrators come in usually until the store opened.
The only thing I can think of is she was going to go early on the bus and then meet up for breakfast with someone by the mall. A coworker? A boss?
The Charley Project page & Lillian's NAMUS profile coincide with the blogger's 6:30 AM time reference for when she left the house, so it's seems that's the likely time she left her residence. The news article above then states she was seen boarding the bus at noon-1 PM. I believe both the times are correct, so the question is what was she doing in that time frame? I question if she even really got on the bus at all. What if the witness was mistaken? Is there any way to tell by some kind of record if she did board the bus? If the witness was mistaken and Lillian never boarded the bus, this leads into a new set of possibilities. She may have went missing much longer before noon or 1 PM, leaving the possibility she met up with someone in that time frame who may have more information.
It seems she was going to the laundromat to get a blue dress.I am not sure where that blogger gets the 6:30 time. First of all, I don't see that reported, although I may have missed it.
It seems unlikely IMHO. Most department stores don't open until 9 or 10. Even if she was to come in early she wouldn't have come in 2 hours early. I used to work retail and they wouldn't have product demonstrators come in usually until the store opened.
The only thing I can think of is she was going to go early on the bus and then meet up for breakfast with someone by the mall. A coworker? A boss?
Did you find anything about the bus and where it would stop along the way?Presuming that Lillian was abducted in the parking lot of the mall, then there are uncanny similarities to the case of Cindy Lee Mellin. Mellin was:
There is a 14-year difference between the disappearances.
- similarly aged (19 years old, Lillian was 21)
- Female
- Californian
- a department store employee
- abducted in a parking lot by all reasonable assumptions
- abducted during her commute by all reasonable assumptions (she was leaving work whereas Lillian was commuting to work)
Not necessarily, retail job hours are all over the place. I used to work retail and I was often scheduled for random times, depending on whether I was doing a 4-hour, 6-hour or 8-hour shift.And if she got on a bus headed to work at 1, that's a bit weird too, if it was a job at a mall presumably she would have gone in the morning.
As of 1983, the RTD bus route from Pasadena to Pomona (Arcadia is on the way to Pomona) was Route 187. In 1989, the Los Angeles Times wrote that Route 187 "runs from Pasadena to Pomona, including stops at Pasadena City College, Santa Anita Race Track and the City of Hope Medical Center." There were likely other stops too, and they just called out a few of the more well-known locations.Did you find anything about the bus and where it would stop along the way?