One of the witnesses worked for a truck stop. In my opinion, she probably took a ride from a trucker....
Why she was beaten and murdered so savagely is beyond me. It was overkill and so filled with anger.
With all my heart, I want our girl identified!
Possibly unpopular opinion, but I've always wondered if this was truly a random crime. This murder does seem to be particularly hateful, at least in my opinion. Maybe she was hitchhiking up until a certain point, which is when she somehow managed to establish contact with a person or people that she knew (and with whom she may have some sort of negative past history), and from there, that person or people ended up turning on her. Honestly, this seems unlikely compared to the theory that she was killed by a stranger who offered her a ride / picked her up, but you honestly never know.