That is true. My point was that for him to mention that it suggests he or they had some kind of interaction/altercation there.
I understand. The radio hosts who talked to Carter 4 days after Katelyn vanished addressed that point with him. When questioned, he didn't seem to have anything specific in mind as regards the festival-goers, just a general sense that the festival brought a lot of people to the area, and at the end of the segment he seemed to be leaning towards the idea that someone had been watching Katelyn for a long time, not just for a few hours one night.
From the Scott Sloan & Tracy Jones radio show, 700 WLW AM Cincinnati, interviewing John Carter on August 18, 2011:
SS: We'll play the 911 call here in a little bit here, you had mentioned that I think the Sacred Heart festival's going on up the street, and you seemed to indicate to the dispatcher that maybe something was go- I mean, had she planned to go to that festival, or - ?
JC: No, she wasn't planning on going. I mean, she was pretty much exhausted every night. We had actually went Friday, and she didn't even really want to go Friday, but I, uh, I just was like, "Let's just go ahead and go, because it's not going to be every day that we have this festival"... and we used, we went every year, I mean since we first started dating we've gone every year. And I don't know, I just kinda... the only reason why I brought it up when I called the police was because, I mean, there's so many different kinds of people there, it's not just you know, Catholics and things like that, it's all walks of life that go to that festival.
SS: Well, if you're from Cincinnati, you know you go to church festivals, even if you're not Catholic - it's just what people, what Cincinnatians do in the summer... and yeah, I think that's probably true to a degree... you just, when you have a large group of people, you certainly - you know, it draws a mixed crowd.
JC: Yeah. It's gotta be one out of however many people is a bad person, you know?
TJ: John, you think something happened with that festival, huh. That maybe someone saw her at the festival?
JC: Honestly, at the time I did, but maybe it had nothing to do with it. Maybe this person had been monitor-... or, or, you know - if -
if she was taken, maybe this person had been watching for a long time. I mean, they had to have known that she was going to be home alone, they had to have known, um, you know, when she was going to be home alone, and when I was going to leave, or, or what have you.
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Regarding no arrest during the past year and more, they only found her body 5 weeks ago. While no-body cases do happen, they are rare. Her remains are still being forensically examined right now. They were first examined in Cincinnati then moved to Indianapolis for further testing, and last we heard, they are still there.
