Unless he threatened her with a gun? Was there any blood found in his car? Any indication that she fought back?
They seized his car on the 26th. I presume if there was blood in the car we would have heard about it in light of the other evidence LE has released.
I suppose the gun is a possibility but seems unlikely to me. First, there's no reported evidence that he had a handgun. The ammo they took out is for a rifle. Second, why would he have needed to pull a gun when she was comfortable enough to meet him there at 3 AM and put her luggage in the car. Third, if you think about the dynamics of pulling a gun ... he would be hyped, she would be hyped, there is the time to shut down the phone and press a couple of buttons, the time to calm things down enough to drive, the risk that someone on the road sees one of them hyped., etc. -- there just isn't enough time, not even an extra couple of minutes in the timeline.
I he had no ill intentions, why didn't he pick her up at the airport? He wasn't married or anything. IMO he wasn't just her ride home. How far from the park did she live? I think it was one of their SB/SD meets.
I get the airport question. The SLC airport is a very easy airport to get in an out of. He lived close to the airport. She lived downtown which is also close. Hatch Park is close to the airport but not a logical meeting point unless they were planning to meet there and then go somewhere north of town (an IHOP, Logan Canyon for sunrise) but then changed after her flight was delayed an it took a while to get her luggage so a 130 AM meeting turned into a 3 AM meeting.
And ...still not sure why the speculation that this had anything to do with an SD/SB situation. In terms of facts:
- His LinkedIn profile shows he is a call center tech at Dell, apparently working at home. She would know that job pays around $15 an hour in SLC since there are so many jobs like that in Utah. She was a lab tech and that pays around $20 an hour in SLC.
- She lived in Trolley Square, a nice student neighborhood. He lived in Rose Park/Fairpark, which is a neighborhood where most people don't speak English as a first language and others here have described as less than desirable.
-. He's not exactly a 45 year old divorced doctor. He's younger than guys typically on an arranged dating site and doesn't seem to have more than a few classes. She has more education than he does.
- We've read his writing. There's no way he could convince a 23 year old college student from LA that he was a successful guy after an ongoing exchange of messages
- There's no evidence that he was on an arranged dating site. People have been scouring that site -- don't you think someone would have published a screenshot by now if he was?
-- None of the women who have talked to the media have said he was presenting himself as something like a successful entrepreneur
- He didn't even pay for her Lyft
- They aren't connected on Venmo
We do know
- They were both on conventional dating sites
- They aren't that far apart in age
- He used a lot of different ways to contact women, including church oriented ways through singles ward information, dating sites for church members, and even though neither were active in the church, those are still used by those who were raised LDS
- I believe it is well known that they both spent times in bars in downtown SLC (I live in SLC and people have told me that).
- from the Lauren McCluskey case, attractive college students are willing to date unsuccessful 30 y/o guys who are different from them in terms of education, jobs, race, and background
