HopeRains
My name is Lisa Coburn Kesler.
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She was found on the Eastbound side of I-40. The clean socks suggest quite a few things to me: (1) her socks weren't dirty, I don't mean that flippantly, but in addition to what you mentioned, having clean socks were important. (2) she was likely wearing footwear that covered her feet, vice sandals, or something that would allow socks to dirty more easily. She was found not far from Burlington, huge textile area, used to have many outlet stores sellings socks, undergarments, etc. (Rolane was a big one).Has it ever been established on what side of the highway she was found on? Eastbound or westbound? Even though she was found outside several days after her death, LE noticed how clean her socks were. That suggests to me, where ever she came from, she got dressed that day in clean clothes. She wasn't outside in the elements without a place to stay, or hitchhiking in muggy warm weather in mid September. The fact that her sweatshirt was around her neck rather than being worn also suggests she was probably murdered in a vehicle and dumped at the most opportune time.
I agree about being murdered in a vehicle and being pushed from the vehicle at an opportune time. It's doubtful to me she was carried from a vehicle, but most likely pushed out of it and gravity and body weight rolled her down the slightly sloped area (I think her body was found was around 15 feet from the road, not close enough for passerbys to see her - she was discovered by a mowing/road crew). Having said that, I believe she was pushed from a vehicle large enough with some height on it and I believe it to be a semi.
I believe various skull sutures begin fusion process at age 25; as I recall in researching her case none of these processes had yet started, and that in conjunction with dental info helped lead to age estimate of 15-25, and probably within the mid range of the high and low in the estimate. (There may have been other measures as well.) Age estimates are tough though and I have seen cases where they were way off - I personally believe that if there is a difference it will not be a great deviation, and would be at the higher age estimate, not the lower.