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- what questions would you want answered?"
The apartment building she disappeared whilst at, was
said to be the 'Olympic on Ross'.
Both apartment floorplans and video tours for that
building are findable online, unfortunately no hallway
or service area pictures are included.
A trawl through reviews for that property going back to
2015, shows some dissatifaction with the property upkeep
and management response to reported faults, (although
in our present time, things are apparently improved).
Examples;
https://www.apartmentratings.com/tx/dallas/olympus-at-ross_9199332346275157288/u-3936405/
02/05/2020;
"They refused to provide me
a keyfob to even enter
the building even though I lived there. I had to break-
in the building every night after work with a golf club,
one night I had to use the gold club to open the gate for
firefighters because the emergency boxes didn't work"
..."They also refused to let residents know about
abductions and breakins until it finally made national
news THEN and ONLY THEN did they decide to let
everyone know about safety issues."
https://www.apartmentratings.com/tx/dallas/olympus-at-ross_9199332346275157288/u-4660927/
06/17/2019;
"When we moved in. The elevator was broken.
The
service elevator used to move big furniture was
broken.
And it continues to break down every
month or so along with the other elevators.
The garage gate has been broken.
The 'secure' doors
have been broken."
https://www.apartmentratings.com/tx/dallas/olympus-at-ross_9199332346275157288/u-4189846/
07/15/2016;
..."The parking garage is unsafe; you can't see around
the corner when cars are coming around. Everyday,
I see someone almost hitting another car coming
around those corners."
https://www.apartmentratings.com/tx/dallas/olympus-at-ross_9199332346275157288/u-4199009/
06/12/2016;
"The only issue that I have had living here is the trash
management."..."Residents will leave their trash
outside their apartments and the trash will stay there
for multiple days. I have thrown away my neighbors
trash twice, and
I have also thrown away trash
that someone left in the hallway leading to
the garage."
(specific URL not noted)
04/28/2016;
"Maintenance is very quick."... "
Utilizes recycling
dumpsters."
https://www.apartmentratings.com/tx/dallas/olympus-at-ross_9199332346275157288/u-3396201/
02/18/2016;
"The trash gets piled up pretty high over the weekend,
but usually every other weekday I encounter the polite
maintenance folks headed up the garage to take care of
the
really big recycle containers. I love that they've
added the
really big receptacles for recycling."
https://www.apartmentratings.com/tx/dallas/olympus-at-ross_9199332346275157288/u-4160773/
12/09/2015;
"Convenient
trash shoot and
3 elevators."
A bit of a recap as I understand events;
She entered the building on foot via a parking garage
driveway (possibly vehicle gate was not working or
constantly open or she waited for a vehicle to enter the
property and moved through the driveway gate before
it closed).
She was probably trying to reach the particular floor
on which the male friend lived.
Now my questions are, why can't the following
sequence of events have actually occurred;
1. She accessed the (garage) elevator by walking
into it when a building resident entered or exited.
QUESTION-is a e.g. keyfob required to open the
elevator doors, or is it that a keyfob is required to
enable the elevator 'floor buttons' to activate?
(Note; so possibly she entered/pressed the floor
button while the residents keyfob still had it in the
active mode).
She pressed the button for the male friends floor and
exited the elevator on that floor. (Note, the male friend
was elsewhere, so door knocking was not answered).
2. She couldn't leave that floor because the elevator(s)
require a keyfob to open the elevator doors/activate
the floor buttons.
QUESTION-does the floor on which the male friend
lives have elevators that require e.g. 'keyfob to open'/
activate buttons?
QUESTION- about the time she went missing, did the
elevator(s) to that floor 'break down'?
QUESTION-does that floor have a 'Service Elevator'
additional to the normal elevator, and if so, is e.g.
'keyfob' needed to open/activate buttons?
QUESTION-at that time, were the other apartments
on the male friends floor empty, either because they
were not leased or because the tenants were not home?
QUESTION-does that floor have hallway windows
that can be opened and if so, at that time would any
dumpsters have been under those windows?
QUESTION-does that floor hallway give access to a
fire escape door & stairwell and if so, at that time
was that floor fire escape door operable or was it
'broken' (unopenerable)?
QUESTION-in the case of any such fire escape
stairwell (from that floor) was the exit door
(usually at street level) operable or broken?
QUESTION-does any such fire escape stairwell
have any possible dangerous exit options e.g. via
openable windows above dumpsters or have trash
chutes?
3. She could not exit that floor (or stairwell), and
after some time she became desperate and attempted
to exit the floor by climbing into and moving down
the 'trash chute' tunnel, however she couldn't
maintain traction against the chute walls and slid
down the chute into the dumpsters/recycleable bins.
QUESTION-does the male friends floor actually
have trash chutes?
QUESTION-if so, at that time, did the trash chutes
lead to above dumpsters/recycleable bins?
QUESTION-in relation to any such trash chute
dumpsters/recycleable bins, were they empty or
had they recently been emptied (and so a hard
landing for anyone landing in them?)
QUESTION-at the time she went missing, when
were any dumpster/recycleable bins due to be next
emptied?
Even if there were no trash chutes, still,
QUESTION-at that time, where did the contents of
the property dumpsters/recycleable bins end up at?
(landfill?some incinerator?)
QUESTION-did the police do a luminol test for
blood in the elevator(s)/service elevator?
I suggest these questions because something like this
actually happened in Australia - in that case, a
woman locked herself out of the high level apartment
during the night, couldn't wake her boyfriend or any
of the other floor tenants, and entered the trash chute.
She went down the trash chute and survived the fall
to the bin, but unfortunately in this case there was an
automatic bin system which apparently then moved
that bin or its lid and the mechanicals of the system
severed an artery about her foot. The closed trash
room that the bin was in had its lights off and in the
darkness she didn't find the closed room door before
she bled out and died.