I am extremely thrown, surprised, something, at how many possible links there are. I am also thrown by the fact that JM seems to have accomplices all over the place... RAT was convicted but says he didn't kill AM and that there was a second male involved. In the Dashad case there's that McFadden dude that's somehow "disappeared". And in the Hannah case, I'm still unconvinced that the white dude following her at the same time as JM is 100% innocent.
Thankfully there's DNA to connect at least Morgan and the 2005 rape, so if it matches JM then boom, right there, tells the whole story.
I would still like to look at Jamisha Gilbert's death in Lynchburg just a few months after Alexis Murphy's disappearance.
The medical examiner declared the COD as Hypothermia. But just like Hannah, Jamisha was caught on a power plants video cctv walking alone on a desolate stretch of roadway. Her car had wrecked near the railroad tracks and an industrial area just outside of the commercial area of Lynchburg. There was talk that she was disoriented and distressed. She ended up in brambles within the Meggison family cemetery. That cemetery was over two miles from where he car was found wrecked. Her clothing was found about half way between the two locations...and on the side of the road near her "boyfriend's' family home. Her naked body was covered in scratches and scrapes which ME suggested may have been from moving through the rough brush near the cemetery.
Just before LE found her body, they had set up in a vacant/abandoned service station. What took them there?
I just fear that Lynchburg PD rushed this case and assumed certain things because a few of Jamisha's (an honor student)friends were connected to some gang members in Lynchburg. There was an assumption that Jamisha had smoked some powerful pot and was disoriented from that and the crash.
What if some big ol "Good Samaritan" came upon the stranded alone and vulnerable 17 year old and offered her a ride. Jamisha was an all star volleyball player. She was an athlete. What if said samaritan attacked her and she ran away naked from him and ultimately died of hypothermia.
She was 17 years old
Athletic
Alone on a desolate road after midnight.
She ended up in a cemetery within a wooded area. (Jessie Matthew has a relative with Meggison in her name.)
On Parker Slaybaugh's FB page a comment was made by a female acquaintance of Jamisha, Sh**ty45****, and possibly an ex girlfriend of either a friend or relative of Jamisha, I can't remember. Anyway, when the charges came down against JLM Jr, she commented "wtf."
Another Facebook commenter asked her if she knew Jesse Matthews...she had a snarky response.
Makes me wonder if Jamisha had not had an occasion to meet JLM Jr.
Jamisha's case was closed and determined to be due to hypothermia.