I just want to interject an important point. Everyone is, of course, wondering what ruse was used to lure Jaren away. Here is an important point. TS had reportedly worked in the French Quarter as a doorman, barker or something like that. So he was part of the "in" crowd. He was supposed to be a good guy, a safe guy who looked out for the girls.
He might have creeped me or you out with his looks but odd looking people are a dime a dozen in the Quarter. Lots of great people with the hugest hearts may look odd and work in the Quarter.
Many of the workers in the French Quarter have a bond and even hang out together after work. The guys often walk the girls safely to their cars. The guys who work with the girls in the places in the Quarter are seen as "safe". They are supposed to be the good guys. And for the Quarter? Well honey, TS actually fairly normal looking compared to some of the colorful people of the FQ!
So Jaren may not have really seen him as a threat, especially if he had his girlfriend with him. Now based upon the report that allegedly one girl says they tried to pick her as a "treat" for him and even offer another story and $700 dollars. She turned them down and so they had to go to plan B.
So if the first girl said "no" to their request, wouldn't they change it up a bit for the next person. Maybe make it less threatening and more profit? Maybe make just a friendly overture for a ride home so she didn't have to wait for a cab and pay for it. I am sure the cab fare each day was not cheap. So that might be an incentive. Just a casual ride home between friends could have been enough.
If the first girl is telling him the truth and had turned him down then that might have made TS mad. Maybe he was going to make sure the next one (Jaren) did not have the chance to reject him. After all, the other girl looked at him and turned him down. Sex offenders and perverts don't like rejection. So they had to make sure they got the next one. Maybe MS knew she had better come thru in getting his "treat".
So the lure could have been as simple as a ride home. Telling Jaren that they would give her ride home if she could leave then. Who wouldn't want to go home early from work? I don't think it was a busy night. So think about it. Jaren could work another half hour and maybe not even make enough in that time to make it worth working that extra half hour and then pay for a cab. Why not skip the few extra bucks she might make and eliminate the cost of a cab and get home early from work? Sounds like a win for me. I would be tempted, especially if it was co-workers asking me, not just a single guy but a guy and a girl that I knew.
So we can all come up with wild ideas on what it took to lure her but it could have been simple. Maybe they offered her a chance to dye their hair and they would pay her big money. Maybe they just said lets go eat and then we will drop you off. Maybe they offered to bring her by walmart to pick up some stuff before going home to her fiancé. After all, Jaren didn't have a car so that would be a bonus. Save the cab fare and get things she and her fiancé may have needed at the motel.
So yeah, maybe they lured her with the promise of big money. They could have said they wanted her to do their hair and they would pay her good money. That's innocent enough, right? No obvious danger there, right? Maybe they said she could make more money doing their hair in an hour rather than staying in the club, plus would get a free ride home.
Ok so I know this was a long post and I appreciate you staying and reading this far in it. I don't rule out that they offered something less innocent than a ride and quick cash for dying their hair. Heck they could have said something stupid like $1000 dollars to dance at a bachelor party for an hour. "Hey, come surprise this groom, the girl who was supposed to dance got sick. It's only an hour and it will be well worth your while. Its strictly dancing and it pays good."
I am not in denial and saying Jaren was completely without flaws and never did anything wrong. We all screw up and do things we are less than proud of. Id hate to be a victim of murder and then have millions of people judge my life and my choices. Wow, you just don't know how I would hate that and all my history contains is being a school teacher, librarian and first responder. But i would hate to have my life and choices scrutinized. No matter what, she didn't deserve this, she didn't bring this on herself in any way shape or form. We've all made questionable choice or took a risk and were dang lucky that we came thru it OK. She was young and young people just don't always think that something bad will happen to them. Don't those things always happen to OTHER people?
I'm just tossing the possibility into the arena that it could have just been something was quite innocent that convinced her to go. After all, she is the victim here. Wild guesses about sordid activities aren't helping ease her family any. They have seen a lot of those. The truth will come out soon enough and I will wait for that in this matter.
No offense to anyone's theories at all. We are all just trying to figure out what happened because we care and want justice. The thing is that Jaren hasn't been linked to any escort activity or extracurricular stuff like that. She had a steady man that she loved and he absolutely loved her as well. This has to be killing him. I think often of how much pain he must be in, especially people speculating and pretty much concluding that must have been going to do something really sordid.
Sure she could have used extra money but maybe more than that she was just a sweet girl who had a friend ask a favor (come dye my hair and makeup, give me a makeover, help me with this personal problem, etc). Maybe she just wanted to help a friend. Remember how sex offenders will use a "lost puppy" as a ruse to approach kids and disarm them (aww a lost puppy, we have to help, he could get hurt and need to be found, who can resist a puppy?). Who among us hasnt gone out on a limb to help a friend?
Ok, as you can see, there are many time I am not at a loss for words. Apparently this is one of those times, lol. Thanks for listening!