JTF- I'm not sure how to describe what I am trying to say, and it may not translate onto a blog...but I live less than a mile from where this crime was committed, and have for years, and years. This neighborhood is a very tight nit community. People notice when someone that doesn't live there is walking around, or acting weird. Like I've said before, there have been many break ins in the past, so people are aware, and many people have lived here for years upon years. It's an area where our local firemen know our children and our local store keepers know us by name. It's a small community, even though it's off of Glenwood, it is still traveled by the same people within the neighborhoods. My neighbors do notice when something is out of place in my yard or something is going on. We all know each other and look out for each other. That's how it is down here, so I feel it would be highly unlikely for some random person to have been walking around by that house, unnoticed. The people at GG know JG well and KT too. And the area behind his house that is wooded is a SMALL area. It's not a large wooded area that someone wouldn't be noticed walking thru and it backs up to a large condo complex.
I live about as far away as you do and I agree there are good neigbhorhoods in that area, but the offender could be someone who fits in. I just saw that Glenwood G closes at 10:00 p.m.. It says they are their new hours on their website. I don't know when that started. Domino's closes at 11:00 p.m. or 12:00 a.m.
Harris Teeter is open 24/7. I think all other stores close fairly early, such as before 9:00 p.m. Still, these are not very busy businesses most of the time. Most of the patrons are KNOWN by the employees IMO. If any customers were in those places late at night, (after 11:00 p.m.) I think it would be noticed and if they seemed out of place, they would be noticed too.
I've tried to run the scenerio of a person pulling up into the GV Shopping Center to pickup a pizza or get a loaf of bread at HT and then deciding to walk around the building, walk up the steps, just happening upon an unlocked door on Cartier, walking in, finding a weapon, entering the master bedroom, and striking the inhabitant on an area hid by her bandages. I'm having a difficult time wrapping my brain around that scenerio.
You can't really tell which of the stores in the GV Shopping Center have survellience cameras. I rode through last weekend and looked at the shops. Even in the daytime you can't tell if any are present. There are lights, contraptions for electrical, signs parts, etc. You would think someone would fear being caught on camera if they were going through that area to get to that house. And how would you pick that house randomly, because it is not visible form the GV parking lot? In order to have knowledge of that house and where it's entrance is, you would have to use the route from Cartier to GV on regular basis.
I have shopped in HT for over 10 years and frequented GG for that long as well and until this happened I had no idea there was a trail from behind there to Cartier. For this reason, I now think that totally random is quite far fetched. It would have to be someone who knew the area, knew the house and the people inside, if not very well, at least casually or the alternatate theory of the someone who was close to the victim and inside the house.
If you just rode down Cartier Drive, you wouldn't even know where to enter this house, because the door is in the back. I can't see it being someone who just happened upon it.
