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Many good points there. Recently on Reddit a poster criticized me while emphasizing, "Everybody knows it's a target-rich area."
I didn't respond but I was laughing while reading it. Somehow people envision Monon High as a park with female joggers and dog walkers and waving to friends amidst dependable traffic especially of certain demographics. Meanwhile it's a trail on the outskirts of a very small town. The single most likely occupancy is zero. That doesn't soar to certainty of plentiful targets on a snow day. That is a bizarre adjustment, after the fact. Adjustments are ridiculously popular. When I lived in Las Vegas all I had to do was calmly wager toward normalcy while everyone else was projecting to the subjective extreme in either direction. It is amazing how well that works.
DeAngelo could pick two targets because he had logically high confidence level that is what a suburban home would hold, especially in that era of earlier marriages, and after doing reconnaissance. Bridge Guy can't do reconnaissance, other than the layout. Otherwise the population of a trail is extraordinarily random. He would have to expose himself to fish smell guest status if he showed up day after day at the same trail looking for exactly his preference and exactly how many.
Frankly the analysis of this case would make a heck of a lot more sense to me if we didn't know anything about Abby and Libby's morning. We could pretend they absolutely knew they would be at the bridge that afternoon. We could pretend certainly they had arranged for a secret meeting. Snapchat on the bridge will be a blast. Instead we have multiple and consistent reports from Kelsi and Becky toward how mundane and random it was. Kelsi said yes and not no.
It was random for Bridge Guy also. It doesn't even make a heck of a lot of sense to park your car there, if he did park near the abandoned building. There's a camera on the Anderson building smack across County Road 300. That's probably how law enforcement became aware of the car in the first place.
Bridge Guy didn't get scared of that faraway camera because he expected it to be just another example of visiting a trail while well prepared, but nothing going to click.
A lot of us can relate to these girls, at that age.
I would have done the same thing on such a relatively mild Winter day, and in fact did the same thing or something similar while in HS, and wish I'd known about it by the 7th or 8th grade. We had a public park to have fun in which was a huge railroad property many years ago, but was abandoned around 1974 and later turned into a city park.
I never once felt afraid or threatened there, and often times me and my buddies encountered no one else in the woods, or at least no 'parent-aged' adults.
Back then I didn't know that one of our own local serial killers had killed there, and left the body to rot under a scrap sheet of drywall or plywood. I didn't know until more recent years that's where he'd killed and left a victim.
He regularly fished right there, he obviously felt comfortable along the gorge where he had many fishing spots. He left his victims at his fishing spots or close to them.
Killers have interests and hobbies just like the rest of us, seemingly normal lives, most of them.
For BG to be there on that day, hanging out, waiting for a victim or victims to come along, just doesn't strike me as anything involving some grand conspiracy. Premeditation and planning, yes. Luring? No.
That and this whole notion that this is some large and well-known public park with lots of visitors is pure fantasy. It's a relatively small area we're working with, virtually all of it on private properties.
I keep going back to the earliest interviews with locals, much of it linked here in the first few or 4 or 5 threads about this case, people right in town knew a bridge was out there, somewhere, but had never been to it, and couldn't tell you how to get to it. The bridge is maybe 1.5 miles from where they were standing.
JMO
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