As those who've followed this tragedy from the beginning know, the community rallied behind the family of Vanessa, not only helping search but community activists spoke out on her behalf to spread awareness of the crime and advocate for her. Some of the most important details we have actually came from these activists, as they've given numerous interviews to news outlets.
Here is a video from a press conference activists who've been working with the family held yesterday. Everyone interested in seeing this murder solved needs to view this video. A lot of the supposed facts we've been discussing here are apparently incorrect and this clears up some speculation.
Raul Roberto Montes
They show the exact parking spot that Vanessa's family was parked in when she went missing, and it is at the parking lot at Bremen Grove, NOT Midlothian Meadows! As they note in the video, this is a small parking lot, one entrance and one exit. This totally changes the dynamic of Vanessa separating from her group to return to her car. She wasn't walking back to Midlothian Meadows, she wasn't very far from them at all when the abduction apparently took place.
Vanessa's body was found in the Midlothian Meadows reserve a few miles away, the approximate location of the wooded area she was found is across from Bremen High School.
Now for the bombshell of the report: a POI has been identified and questioned by police but was not arrested.
The activists are advocating for the FBI to be involved and the FBI has told them that the local jurisdictions must request support.
Univision Chicago was one of the outlets at this press conference because they used information from these activists in their news report yesterday. (Posted up thread)