I was just watching Gray Hughes latest video and I have to agree it looks like a possible crime. The area where her body was found does resemble a "dumping" site at the end of that gravel road. Her car parked haphazardly on a different road, a long walking distance from her body, doors unlocked, possessions possibly missing also looks suspicious.
Of course, her family and friends will have to wait for more information.
I have not watched Gray Hughes but I have been in the "foul play" camp all along - like 90%.
I find the area that they found her in to be peculiar and surprising. Certainly not deep in the forest. Was that area searched initially ? IMO it does feel like a dumping place.
I think Meghan was making strides to create a new life with plans to move out west to her friends Mom's iirc in Olympia, with maybe her friend joining them later.
She was distancing herself from the toxic situation at work and the injustice of it all.
IMO Although she loved teaching and certainly needed to support herself, she was not someone who was going to thrive in the typical school system structure fraught with petty politics and bs.
From her obituary :
"She was a creative, free spirit who loved to travel and spend time outdoors. Meghan was a poet and established the Troy Poetry Project. She was an activist, environmentalist, and was involved with the Sanctuary for Independent Media in Troy."
I believe Meghan was beginning to find a path towards her own true north.
For whatever reason, I believe she was the victim of a random encounter. A crime of opportunity. Seemingly, wrong place wrong time which unfortunately I sense began innocently enough with incorrect directions. Did she stop enroute in her car and ask someone out for a run for further directions and have an encounter? Or something similar? Did the person say - Sure let me help you - I will hop in and show you the way and then continue on my run. There she is on an adventure in a buccolic area- was her guard down ? Remember how charming and friendly Ted Bundy was? A friendly face a kind word - salve for the soul - until it isn't.
None of us know we just have our own thoughts and speculations
IMO and IME Crimes of opportunity don't just happen on sunny days in dangerous places. They happen randomly when opportunity presents itself. Here in New England, we go out and about in all kinds of weather, especially if its just 40 degrees ish and raining. Many of us run or walk daily irrespective of the climate. Not odd at all to me that someone else could have been out and about like Meghan was.
I think whatever happened, if it can be known from her remains, we will know eventually. I suspect from the little that I know about Meghan, that is what she would have wanted.
