it can be done. Watch the live feeds at 3 am (assuming it was dumped right after she was abducted) there is like zero traffic there at 3 am. And I don't know but it seems like they were really pushing it by where it is because a local would know that people go there to fish and etc. Abducted Mickey -maybe not a local. Maybe took the bike maybe not. Whoever dumped the bike is probably not a local. A local knows that's a fishing spot and on big old memorial day weekend!?Looking at Google Earth at the above coordinates, I see a problem with the pull-over-and-dump scenario. Look at the bridge as it crosses the river. That's where it gets very narrow, with no shoulder to pull over! Remember how many bad wrecks happen on that bridge? Got stuck once for 6 hours a few years back after two trucks tangled at the top.
To have dumped the bike so it landed under the bridgel, the perp would had to have stopped IN the traffic lane - liable to be rear-ended at any second by traffic coming from behind.
Maybe the perp had to walk it under the bridge after all. After all, look at the map - the trees are cleared. He could have carried - or driven - the bike back under the bridge.
Remembering how there is absolutely no shoulder there - just two lanes - how could he have stopped to throw the bike over?!
I believe it was criminal profiler Pat Brown (in her interview with Jane-Velez Mitchell) who said, "Find the bike, find Mickey...It's all on the bike." (paraphrased by me)
Right, I'm agreeing with you. Just a picture to confirm for people not familiar with the area. Apologize for the misunderstanding.
Hmm. That's curious. I wonder if it's because his taking the bike makes Pat Brown think the bike is important to him.
I'm disturbed about the idea that this location is where a serial killer left his victim. I hope that isn't a message (as in mind game with the bike).
Hmm. That's curious. I wonder if it's because his taking the bike makes Pat Brown think the bike is important to him.
I'm disturbed about the idea that this location is where a serial killer left his victim. I hope that isn't a message (as in mind game with the bike).
chicken fried...going by the terrain under the bridge, do you think investigators might have been able to detect tire tracks, footprints?
Trophy?I believe she was referencing the fact a bike is such a liability to an abductor.
Definitely look up the show transcript. It's worth a read. I don't know what date it aired, but you should be able to find the link to the transcripts on JVM's website.
Hope that helps...
Who is out and about that time of morning? Speaks of 'younger' group to me. Bar crowd, etc.......
Is there a video of this online? I tried Googling "pat brown mickey shunick" but came up empty.
You must be a night-owl, like me. This has been on my mind every day... as I work, I just turn it over and over. I'm waiting for a moment when I can go help again.. The biggest thing as I drive around town is to find that Caddy with the messed up right-rear fender. I'm going to look a couple places tomorrow. It seems I'm not the only one who has seen the beat-up Caddy; we need that guy as a witness.
As was mentioned last night (by a newbie local - it was their first post iirc - i'm sorry i forget their handle) there was the Louisianime Convention http://www.louisianime.com/site/
Schedule: http://www.louisianime.com/site/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/PrintableSchedule2012.pdf
It was pointed out earlier in the thread that the truck "looked dirty" like as in gravel road.Which is a gravel road that requires extensive knowledge, let's hope he didn't travel these roads.
If I am him and I am local, and I have her stashed somewhere in Lafayette I know the heat is on. I would want to turn down the heat and the one way I would do that is to dump her bike somewhere headed out of town to hopefully get people to thinking I left.
Pardon my generalization but I don't attribute great intelligence or critical thinking to someone who would grab a girl off the street at 2 am.