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If this was a split second decision, I’d be super surprised! That is way too many things to fall in line and make the escape as clean as it was. This had to have involved some degree of premeditation in my view. Maybe it was someone noticed the routine of kids meeting in the lobby and going to the pool. IF Nicole made it to the lobby, someone could have been sat there waiting for a kid - any kid - to exit the elevator alone. They may have sat waiting for the area to clear, pretended to be busy getting mail, or wandering about, walking a small dog. Anything is possible. If someone got there right before Nicole did and no one else was around, they could have grabbed her right out of the elevator as the doors opened, and left out the front or side door to a waiting car. Or, they could have joined her on the elevator as it opened in the lobby and taken it down to the parking level and off they go to a waiting car. I just don’t think someone was ballsy enough to make a sudden split second decision without ANY degree of pre-planning. The risks of being seen / caught would have been too high!I don’t think it was a split second decision either. IMO, someone heard or knew the girls were meeting up for their pool date. Maybe Nicole talked to someone in the lobby when she was getting the mail and mentioned it in general conversation about the weather that day. That same someone could have watched the elevator while Nicole went back to her apartment and knew what floor she lived on. Just one possible scenario.
In Jacob Wetterling’s case, we learned when the perp was caught that he had actually seen the boys ride off to the store and figured they’d come back the same route so he parked in a driveway and laid in wait, then grabbed the one he wanted out of the three after a brief conversation. That wasn’t a split second decision - that guy had at least ten mins or maybe a few minutes longer to decide that he was going to do it, and how, and to lay his trap. Nicole’s case may be something like that even.
I think someone knew the routine. Someone realized the kids were unsupervised and meeting in the lobby and someone just decided they’d do it one day when no one was around to see. If the building didn’t have CCTV as some did in those days and some did not, then its even more likely to me that this was a degree of planned. They’d possibly not have done it if they knew cameras might be watching / recording when parents were not looking.
This is one case that I really feel is solvable. I think its likely the answer is already there in the police files and it has just gone overlooked. I wonder at what point the file will be opened and the public allowed to take a stab at it? What would the process be to get that done, and would the family be interested in having volunteers look at this case?