Thanks Blondie!
I have been thinking about this case so much ever since it happened.
I was putting up Garage Sale signs in the area, including on Concordia Ave, just a couple of Saturdays
before at exactly that time in the morning. I know the area around the Kimberley Hill extremely well.
As much as I love our police, I find the way they have handled this case rather odd. First off, they told
residents they don't feel there is any need for people in the neighbourhood to be concerned.
Not until a year after Thelma's disappearance do they issue a warning and mention
the possibility of an unknown abductor. Also, they wait a whole year before they reveal the cell phone
and ear buds were found as well as her glasses. Did they change their theory as to who did this?
and if so, a warning should have been issued when they suspected an unknown abductor.
I know for a fact that police videographers, and not just TV outlets, were filming all of us who showed up
at the KE school near the Hill last year for that march to support the family and to retrace Thelmas route.
That told me the police were not thinking she just disappeared of her own volition, and that it was most likely
an abduction.
Also, I'm not sure why they waited a whole year before they make a real effort to refresh us re the case
and ask again for our help in identifying that lady walker who was along the route.
The other thing that bugged me was when the police said there would have been a lot of activity going on
at Valley Garden Community Club and fields at that time. This told me they were not thinking logically nor
had they done their research. Anyone nearby knows that when school is out and summer comes, the local community
club is definitely not a beehive of activity as it is in fall, winter and spring. I can tell you with 100% certainty that things are pretty
much dead around there on a very hot, humid summer morning. In fact, the sad reality is chances are very high
that nobody saw or heard a thing except for Thelma and the perpetrator(s). There IS a fairly constant flow of traffic along Concordia going
to and from the hospital. If I were police, I would have questioned all workers and hospital visitors travelling along
Concordia around that time ASAP. (Maybe they did.)
I would love objective observer websleuths to comment. Also, when the police say the cell phone produced excellent forensic evidence,
what could that mean? Does it just establish timeline and location, or could there be fingerprints and blood on it? I'm quite sure there
was blood found on the ground from what local people have said. Also, truck tire tracks near the base of the hill.