Hello all,
So the reason I found this site was looking for more/updated info on this case.
For me, it kinda hits close to home. Literally. I live in MB, and my grandparent's property is right beside the "godforsaken" and "podunk" cornfield where her car was burnt. It's actually a pretty clean, nice area with mostly good people. I heard about "some car was burned in the cornfield" on that Monday from my uncle, who lives maybe a half or a quarter mile away from the field, and he said they had helicopters out looking for the driver. I've been trying to follow it since then.
The access into the field the car went down is actually not that easy to find unless you know what you're looking for. A very narrow access that definitely required a slowdown and intent. I drove by it myself when looking for it before anyone had even hear of SW around here. And where the car was burned was too far off 378 to be visible from the road. I think there was a trail into the field there beforehand, but I'm not 100%. Looked like it on Monday/ Tuesday when I stopped to look. The field's been harvested now, anyway. One thing I noticed while looking for the field was that most other crops in the area were shorter (maybe soy beans) and wouldn't hide a car as well while they were prepping it to burn?
The fire station tower is mostly back in the woods to the point where it would be pointless to climb it to get a better view of the area or anything like that. I found the no cameras thing weird, but not very. You find more game cameras out in that area than security cameras. And the area is a very clean, well kept area beside a major 4-lane highway. Very open in front of the station. I was very surprised at the body location, since the tower is pretty far off the road and you have to walk in the open past everything to get there.
What threw me off the most was the timing. I drive that route on 378 about 4-5 days a week for work. With good traffic, it takes me around 55 minutes to get from my grandparents' house to 544 where my route diverges from the one she most likely would have taken. In good (not Sunday leaving MB) traffic, 300 S Ocean would be probably 20+ minutes up the road. Also, keep in mind that there is mainly one way into the area if you're coming 378 or 501, and on Sunday that bridge area tends to bottleneck and slow down. There are other ways across the river, but they are slower and take you though downtown Conway. If I were to tell someone that I'd meet them on the boulevard and I was leaving the field area, I'd estimate 1.5 hours and I'd probably be 5 minutes late. My opinion is that it would take perfect traffic, redlights, and close to 100mph in some heavily patrolled areas to do the trip in an hour.
My guess is that if she was at 300 Ocean at 1, the car was already stolen or on 378 (maybe headed to be parted out or destroyed). Potentially an accidental death or screwed up abduction occurred shortly after the facetime, and they called their associate with her car and told them to get rid of the evidence because the car had gotten too hot to risk being seen/ caught in.
Sorry it's so long. Very curious about how this one will turn out.
Also, the moped rentals are super common in MB. Teens and younger (and dumber) tourists rent them and ride up and down the boulevard all day. The boulevard itself has gotten a lot worse and seedier in the last 8 or 9 years. I wouldn't recommend any attractive young women go there alone. And speaking of Brittanee Drexel, unless something new has come up, I think that's been closed...
Brittanee Drexel, teen who vanished in 2009, was raped, shot, eaten by alligators, FBI says