Welcome to Ws Quest701, interesting post, thanks for chiming in!I think it looks like he’s turning around as well.
Apparently it would have taken the victim to get from that crosswalk to the place she was found around 10 minutes. The crosswalk photo was at 12:15ish right? So that means she probably got there around 12:25.
The group of young people (two women and a guy) left from the side of the park (Charles Allen and 10th entrance) where she was found around 11:54 ish, so it’s unlikely they saw the actual attack but could have seen the assailant hanging around.
Cane guy was leaving on the other side of the park from where the victim was found around 12:25 so it’s hard to say if he would have seen anything either. He may have seen the person inside the park before the attack. Maybe not.
The guy in the hoodie is also leaving on the other side of the park at 12:43, or about 18 minutes from when KT likely arrived. I’m not sure he could have seen much (other than the killer wandering around but before KT was attacked) because he was still a good ways away from the Charles Allen entrance.
So then we have runner guy at 12:46 ish, or about 20 minutes after KT likely arrived, and by the entrance where she was found. I can’t say for sure, but it’s my hunch that he was turning around (and hence didn’t enter the park) or else he would have maybe saw something warranting calling the police. I think she was likely dead by then because she had probably been there a whole 20 minutes (that is, if she didn’t take any detours on her way from the crosswalk she was last photographed at). 20 minutes just seems like way too long of a time frame for her to have been in the park without being attacked.
I’d also like to mention while the morbid rumors detailing the exact nature of her condition floating around aren’t confirmed, officials have reiterated that this case is pretty “unusual” and nothing like they’ve seen in a while. Words like “mutilated” and “disfigured” have also been used by the press. That leads me to think this wasn’t a stab and run and that it probably took a decent amount of time for the killer to attack both her and the dog in such a gruesome way.
Hence, I doubt the runner happened upon a argument at 12:45 between KT and the killer, said “awkward” and then ran. That would only leave 15 odd minutes before her partner found her for the killer to carry out such a gruesome attack. And again, KT could have been there 20 minutes at that point.
Had he gone in, he also would have stumbled upon the dog only 50 feet in. My unsubstantiated hunch is that the killer was wrapping up around then but had not quite fled from the scene.
Also because it was pretty late, the runner probably was just running on the street and not looking to go through the park (but who knows).