Wondergirl
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Hey yall, i am from the immediate area and thought i would share some of my thoughts. All this is only my opinion, information is being held tight at this point by RCMP and i only wish to share a local perspective.
1 It is most likely she did not have intimate/personal knowledge of the attacker, if she had, she likely would have named them in the last text she sent out. eg "_____ is creepin me out".
2 The above mentioned text was in all likelihood sent by her (any misspellings is probably do to ether short hand text/slang or panicked fingers/trying to feel less alone), makes no sense for the perpetrator to send this text in an effort to evade then leave the phone laying so close to where obvious foot traffic would surly pass.
3 This path by the tracks is well used, it is likely the attacker has used it regularly in the past as most locals have.
4 It is unlikely the attacker had a car with them (she would have been dragged into the car and not the bushes/woods if the attacker had one) or even owned one at all (this is my feeling due to what seems to be an intimate knowledge of the area), further pointing to his being local.
I can see how some people might be interested in exploring any links to the highway of tears (as mentioned in a previous post) but this is not very plausible/probable. I think whoever is on this track may have mistaken some of the information released to the public regarding the HoT investigation. At this investigations onset the police took a look at all crimes with similar victims/circumstances/patterns (245 characteristics). One local murder in a town 15mins down the road from Armstrong was represented on a separate list (the victim was a 17yr old girl named Jamie Van Weiren and it occurred in 1994) which was created through the initial HoT probe. The list she appeared on was of murders/disappearances mostly in the southern area of BC and not related to the HoT (which is very northerly). This list also included Mindy Tran and Micheal Dunahee, 2 small children. For whatever reason the investigators see similarities between these crimes and 8 others (one has since been solved, Jennifer Cusworth) sweeping from BC's coast all the way to Edmonton but they do not see them as being related to the HoT, M.O.'s must be different even though these crimes and the HoT are all most likely stranger on stranger crimes. The probability of Taylor's murder being related to these is slim due to the different M.O.'s. (of course M.O.'s can change with time and necessity hmmmmm)
The letter to the police is disturbing although not at all unheard of in these parts. A few hours down the road in a town named Abbotsford a man named Terry driver attacked 2 young girls with a baseball bat (one lived, the attack was sexually motivated). After the attack he wrote letters and called the police inc wrapping one letter to rock and throwing it through a random house window in the community. He also stole and desecrated the victim's tombstone then left it on a radio news vehicle. He claims also to have committed 3 murders that occurred in 1989. His was/is clearly narcissistic and craves notoriety/attention. Armstrong is a very small community, 4500 people. I don't want to think that 2 (Taylor's murderer and the letter writer) so severely mentally ill individuals can live in such close proximity to each other. Time will tell though as in TD's case his attention seeking and narcissism drove him to continually up the anti. If this letter is from her attacker he will most likely follow suit and continue to seek attention.
My Mom thinks it was a sort of group thrill kill by peers. Her opinion stems from the fact Taylor was beaten severely and not well hidden. She say's it reminds her of the Reena Virk murder in 1997 on BC's coast. As you can see my thoughts are different then hers but i continue to ponder this very possible scenario as well. If it has some truth then not all involved will be able to stay quiet and it will come to light sooner then later.
With little facts being made available my mind wonders over the little details that are known and of course non can make sense of this very senseless crime.
Thank you for taking the time to read my mini novel and for discussing the factual information that has been released and being respectful of Taylor and the community in this pursuit.
Great post, CC, thank-you for taking the time to join WS and give all of us your perspective.
You raise some excellent points.
Your thoughts regarding the perp(s) being on foot, a local familiar with the tracks, Taylor being the one who did the final text......all great points.
The following points are of interest to me, as they seem to stand out with respect to this crime:
1. The early evening time of the attack. Did we ever determine if it was dark out? Was the perp(s) so driven by the gore of the evening, that they could not refrain from attacking either in the light, or so early when so many people were out and about? :waitasec:
2. The phone. Surely the perp(s) must have known Taylor was on the phone, had a phone. Did they see her texting? Did they throw the phone away? Didn't the perp(s) worry about the phone at all?
3. If the tracks were so regularily used, wouldn't a local know that there would be alot of traffic on them, especially on Hallowe'en night?
If Taylor was targeted, it does seem the killer acted impulsively in some of the behaviour, and was therefore a disorganized killer, so that doesn't exactly jive, if you kwim?
CanadianCandy, what is your theory on what happened to Taylor?