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In a murder case it is routine to start from the inside and work your way out, i.e. looking very closely at the people that saw the deceased last and or those that lived with the deceased or were engaged in an intimate relationship with the deceased. In Nancy's case the person who last saw her alive, the person who lived with her and was involved in the most intimate relationship with her happens to be BC and there is irrefutable proof that BC & NC's relations had gone sour both from legal documentation and eye witness accounts. <SNIP>
This is not only true in a murder case, think about it from a pure logic standpoint. I discover I am missing something, it does not matter what, it could be my car keys. Now, Do I go to the neighbor's house and start looking for my keys? Do I put an ad in the paper first? Call my Mother? No! I begin looking where I last saw them, or where the last place I remember having them, and retrace my steps from that point.
In this case, BC says he saw her leave to go running, and she does not return for a long time, her car is in the driveway, so we know she did not leave the state, at least under her own power.
She COULD have been abducted, but it does seem strange that LE and the friends took such an active role in searching for her to begin with. I was keeping my eyes open, and might have participated in a search, had I known that one was going on. I was in the Regency Park area in the woods that weekend anyway, and I was looking for anything that might have indicated she was there, or had been, but I also had it in the back of my mind that she might have voluntarily left. This was before they mentioned her kids, much less her husband. I think it was a day or two before it even came out in the WRAL site that she was married.
Now, on access to Lifetime. I have not been a member all that long, but you have an ID card. It is a plastic card, similar to a credit card. There is a bar code on the back, and you cannot swipe it in yourself. You hand it to someone behind the counter and they swipe it for you. They look down at the computer screen, and I think they usually call you by name. When you get your membership card, they take a picture of you with a webcam, and if you have a family membership they also take pictures of your kids. I am not sure if your picture pops up on the screen when you enter or not, but since you could theoretically use someone else's membership card since it does not have your picture on it, I would not be at all surprised to find that your picture is displayed. It would also help if you have the kids in tow that they knew you were bringing your kids in, and not just some random kids.
There are also several security cameras around the parking lot and entrances of Lifetime Fitness.
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