Ruminations
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In my opinion, there was nothing remarkable about Karen's appearance. She wasn't overly heavy or overly skinny...not 6 foot tall or 3 feet tall. She didn't have platinum blond hair, or pink hair. No "droopy" eye, or large birthmark. Just nothing that made her particularly stand out. She looked like a hundred girls I might have run into at a flea market. And yet somehow, this swinger picks her up for just one night, and now can say with certainty that this girl was Karen, 20+ years later ?
I mean...okay. I guess.
ETA: Add in the bullet points of a Christmas tree, a belt , Valentines Day, a sea shell on a shelf, the fire in the back yard...just seems, well, scripted. But that's just me.
Well, a face with a strikingly intense emotion is more likely to be "recorded" and brought back again years later.
All the same, I'm not sure why it would matter much if it the witness were not convinced it was Karen Vergata. If her statement was more like "I have a hunch it was her because it was near Valentine's Day, but I could be wrong," woukd that make all the rest of her narrative uninteresting? Detective and gf go to Rex's house with a homeless and hungry woman just out of jail because they saw an ad placed for swingers on a message board at Le Trapeze?
To me, this is very significant, even without Karen Vergata being the woman brought along.
(I do believe the witness, FWIW. I think Ray would have left that detail out if it were iffy.)
MOO