Peter Brendt
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You're mixing up Maureen and Melissa.
Maureen was the one last seen at the bus terminal, who deposited $900 and who told her friends that she'd been robbed of her nights earnings.
Melissa is the one who disappeared from The Bronx, told her boyfriend she had a client for $1000 that night, and was secretive about the client.
With respect to the call Maureen made, I wouldn't characterize it as a distress call. More a weary, po'ed call. She'd made some money on the trip, deposited it in her account, then that night had gotten robbed of whatever earning she had on her from that particular day. The call to friends, imo, was more of a "I've had it, I'm coming home" call.
Right, sorry. So Maureen had also $1000 or more since she deposited $900. Well, does that matter? Maybe, because it would indicate a $1000 visit wasn't that unusual at all, neither for Maureen nor for Melissa.
Okay, lets characterize this phone call as just a kind of venting steam in Maureen's case. And it was Maureen, who deposited ... then the conclusion is still correct, only the name was wrong. She had left the client and deposited the money, which indicates, the client wasn't the killer. Then she went to the bus terminal, was robbed somewhere on the way or at the terminal and made that phone call or calls (all articles talk about friends, she called, not just one friend). But after that call, there is no trace of Maureen anymore. And she went to no atm. So, she calls friends in the middle of the night, fine, I can get that, p***** as she had to be after getting robbed. But it still means, her last known position was in NYC and it was too late to find ad hoc another client, was it? That puts her abduction to NYC.
I have a maybe stupid question, but is there anything about that bus terminal? Did the other victims use buses from there too on occasion? I am originally from Europe, so this long distance bus riding appears to me still somewhat unfamiliar. Is that common?
The reason why I ask is, I remembered the case of John Wayne Gacy. Some of his victims were picked at a bus terminal which proved to be the only common denominator for the majority of them.