I only watched part of that reporter's video posted in post 107. I will watch the rest after work. Thank you for sharing - very interesting so far to see the nature park at 6 PM. Now he did say he was there on a weekend; I'd love to see him return on a weekday.
So the park ranger/employee drove through the lot and also stopped people and told them the park was closed. He had a note that popped up that after Daylight Saving, they close at 7:30. Someone earlier in this thread posted a photo from I think Google Earth maybe that showed a sign at the entrance saying closed at 730 so that must be why. It was a different time of year.
I wonder if the sign at the entrance currently says closes at 6. I'm assuming they would switch that out for Nov-March? If not, and the 730 sign was still there, I could see her not even being aware the park was closing. If she was on a path not near the parking lot, no employee may have come across her. OR even if she was aware it closed at 6, maybe she was kind of far from the parking lot and was making her way back. By the time she got to the parking area, it may have been quite deserted as the rangers cleared everyone out.
His walks around the park in the video, even though there were several cars in the lot, showed most of these paths pretty deserted, and I'm guessing even more so on a Thursday evening. I'm starting to worry that something happened to her IN the park. There looked like a lot of isolated areas and areas that you can walk right up to the water. What if someone sexually assaulted her, killed her, and dumped her body in the water while in the park? Obviously for her phone to have pinged elsewhere, they would have had to take her phone/belongings with them, which they might have. Just MOO of course but wondering out loud.