Thanks for that. I feel a little lost because I can't figure out why she was alone. Ok, let's say there's a party. Surely she wasn't the only one going to it. Why walk all that way (however short it was) alone at that hour? There must have been others going to the same party, right? ...Unless it wasn't a party. That's what haunts me. What was she doing? Is there something else on her phone that we don't know? The friends are conspicuously quiet. Was it normal for Hannah to take off walking after midnight alone after drinking? Something is missing from this whole story and it's bothering me so much. Bless her heart. It's really devastating for me and I didn't even know her. I can't imagine her family's pain.
I think the simple explanation that one a UVA student gave early on, that she may have been lost makes a lot of sense. We've had a number of poster who know the area say how it was totally possible to get disoriented in that area as they had personal experience doing the same, getting lost there. She'd only lived off-campus for those first two weeks. Lost, under-age, not able to enter a bar, so she keeps moving to where it may be more familiar, more of a crowd, more safety even, after having passed all those isolated areas. She may have been familiar with how to get back from the mall to "The Corner" near her apartment either on foot or trying to catch a bus that may have been running until last call. Either of those reasons would explain the brisk pace on the "Sal's" video, like she knew where she was headed, until she ran into the perp.