J. J. in Phila
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It may not have been Smith's car, assuming the witness accounts are correct.
I only heard about Judy’s case fairly recently and I’m surprised it doesn’t have more interest on here. A genuinely perplexing case on nearly every level. Truly baffling. I hope, despite the odds, something comes up that leads to answers somewhere.
where were the kids when she went 'sightseeing' and he attended the convention?
I've only known of Judy's case for a few years, but it still bothers me. The investigation in Asheville was so poorly done by law enforcement not used to working homicides it's saddening. I truly believe this case should have been solvable. I also don't have faith in any of the eye witness accounts.
That’s actually a good question. Have they tested DNA to make sure there isn’t a misidentification? Have they or can they test the clothes found on her to see if there is blood hers or someone else’s? She definitely was killed in Asheville? The not traveling with her husband because of a missing ID and a possibly unhappy marriage makes me wonder if she made it to Philadelphia at all. She was supposed to have 200 dollars on her and she was missing about 30 dollars and that was what a woman said she spent on food and a toy truck. I might be crazy. It almost seems too perfect. Like someone made sure she was seen.ChuckMaureen, I'm curious where you read the cuts aligned. Source you can link? I never saw a statement by the medical examiner she was definitely stabbed. My understanding, based on investigator statements, was she was murdered based on being found partially buried. I'd also never read there was blood on clothes which would seem likely from a stabbing. Thanks
Snipping just for emphasis.
- The absence of worn clothing in my opinion is borderline damning. From personal experience, air travel for hefty individuals is miserable and uncomfortable. Even from Boston to Philadelphia back in the mid 90's you are talking about around a 4 or 5 hour ordeal - more if you consider that she had to run back home, come back to the airport, and switch to a later flight. I can't buy for a second that a woman, or any person, would want to wear the same clothing they wore through all that the following day. At minimum, you need to change your socks and underwear. It was April, so it's unlikely she was not wearing socks with any kind of footwear she would be on an airplane or touring a city in. So she would have had to wear the same underwear, and socks, that she had worn on the plane the day before. I could even buy her throwing out the underwear as an earlier poster suggested due to feminine stuff, but what about socks? This is very weird - I understand others corroborated her presence, but still, what happened to her clothes?
The nearest Amtrak station to Asheville, then as now with the Crescent, would be Spartanburg.It is possible for someone to either fly to Ashville, NC from Philadelphia or get close to it by train. Greenville, SC is about 70 miles from where JS's body was found. There is currently a train from Phila to Greenville. She could get to the train station in Phila using mass transit; same with the Phila International.
Travel by car is actually a bit less direct. You have to turn on at least 3 different interstates to get there.
Spartanburg station - Wikipedia
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Crescent (train) - Wikipedia
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