Still wondering where the 'surveillance' footage came from? LE doesn't normally call cell phone photos or video "surveillance", to my knowledge, nor would the average person, IMO.
If it WAS from Ally's phone, that raises an even bigger red flag...why would her mother lie about her not taking her phone that day?
None of this makes sense.
RBBM for focus
My thought was perhaps LE instructed Nikki to say that for investigative purposes, if ever asked by media.
IF there were indications earlier in the day that Ally couldn’t locate her phone, and then it was found at the crime scene, LE might theorize that the perpetrator had it with them at the time of the murder and consider it a sign that the killer was someone who was close to Ally. The perpetrator would be the only person who would know that Ally’s phone was left at the crime scene and therefore LE wouldn’t want such information to become public knowledge, IMO.
Dated Sep 21, 2016:
“Michigan State Police Lt. Michael Shaw said
there was evidence at the scene that indicates Brueger likely knew her killer.
‘
There are a lot of things at the crime scene that points us to that she knew who this was,’ Shaw said. ‘I can’t expand on that, but there is not enough evidence that we can rule out a random event. We
think it’s someone she knew, but we can’t say for certain that she didn’t get into an incident with a vehicle in a road rage type of event, either. We have to be careful to not narrow the focus.’“ (BBM)
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.freep.com/amp/90785580
Dated Oct 7, 2016:
“In a
hometownlife.com article published two weeks ago, Shaw said
there was evidence at the scene that indicates Brueger likely knew her killer. He said there are a lot of things at the crime scene that point investigators to the conclusion that the killer was someone she probably knew. He said there is not enough evidence to rule out a random event or a road-rage type incident.“ (BBM)
Hunt for jogger’s killer continues
Dated Mar 6, 2018:
“One of them is that Ally may have been the victim of a deadly case of road rage.
‘Somebody drives by and for whatever reason, they get into it, and she's killed,’ said Shaw.
Or, unthinkably, that Ally had been deliberately marked for assassination.
‘
She knew who it was. Somebody that got mad at her at work, something to that effect,’ said Shaw.” (BBM)
Who killed Ally Brueger? Michigan nurse gunned down while jogging on rural dirt road
I admit my theory is far-fetched, contrived and probably an unlikely one. I’m just really curious as to what it could be “that point investigators to the conclusion that the killer was someone she probably knew.
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