That last tip at 3:18pm really really stands out to me. I was once followed by a man in a pick up truck. Now I consider myself good at reading people, am accustomed to nefarious characters and can distinguish them instantly (crackhead, heroin addict, pimp, pervert, etc etc), and learned to handle myself at an early age. That one incident was the ONLY time in my entire life where the hair on the back of my neck stood up. The night of the hunter. Listen, I do not control the hairs on the back of my neck!!
The irony being, this neighborhood was yuppie heaven. Now this was ironic, being where Im from, that I would move to this city and be scared of someone. I imagine thats how vanessa felt, being home for the weekend from NYC. Like, there is nothing to worry about here. This is an afflent area, I know this area well, people that dont belong here just arent going to come around here and try any crap like that. But they do! This man I had the encounter with, I would say he didnt live in the neighborhood but was familiar with it, obviously.
There are more details, but I dont wanna ramble on. Luckily I happened upon my apartment building (a moderate sized building), disappeared inside, and that was that. I never saw him again. Come to think of it, it was a white pick-up (IIRC). heh
I recall hovering in my apartment for awhile (in the dark), thinking that some woman would be killed that night. He would keep looking, I knew that for fact. And it never once occurred to me to call the police. Because technically, nothing had happened.
1) I dont think vanessa's perp was from the area, he was familiar with it. He was hunting women, and to a relative outsider, this stretch of road looked secluded. He knows its affluent and has seen the women running in the area.
2) Many men drive pick-ups, but the color white is very uncommon, IMO. If LE reviews hundreds of hours of surveillance footage from gas stations, they could easily spot someone driving a white pick-up.
3) There was two suspicious vehicles that sunday. The white pick-up, and the car pulled over with the hood up and/or "parked in the woods". Maybe they were the same vehicle?? we dont know enough on that end. Is a pick up truck conducive to abduction or murder??
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5) The burning of the feet really baffles me. Wth kinda evidence is on someone's feet??? That hints at sadistic amusement, a weird loner. "Look at these pretty feet, Im going to burn these feet". I could understand why he would burn her hands (fingernails with dna). Her face though?? Okay, maybe she bit him. But her feet??!
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But yeah, that last tip really stands out to me....hope my little anecdote made sense.
This person is semi-local, low income, single, weird, and planned to abduct a woman. And works in construction or some other hands on seasonal work.
