Did I miss a LE press conference? Alice, where did you find this??
It was in several articles that were written about her remains being recovered. I'll go look. The chief (or sheriff) said Potter had never reported the bit about the van to LE before. Probably a yes/no response to a reporter's question.
I keep thinking of the scenario someone discussed about the crawl space access. The tent that was set up was butted up to the house, I would imagine that is exactly where her body was found.
Also I'm wondering if her body could have been placed in a yard storage container/ Rubbermade type and placed next to the house, the type of container people store lawn furniture cushions in- it wouldn't seem out of place if police did a quick search of the property without finding her on Wednesday if she was placed in a typical yard bin.
Her body was discovered in tall grass. I've posted several links to msm articles that have clearly stated this. Sorry...just waking up and not ready to track down links again.![]()
LOL, I'm not a reporter, regrettably. I guess. Journalism seems to be in the throes of death. It's a whole different beast now than it was even 5-10 years ago so I don't really blame the reporters for that. I think we are actually to blame for how bad it has gotten. (We, the public, not we at Websleuths.)
You do know about WH's previous criminal history, don't you, Alice?
Check the links within this article for more info. The first links will also give you details about the 1998 felonious restraint charge involving a minor.
http://wtkr.com/2015/03/23/father-of-missing-norfolk-teen-arrested/
The house was abandoned for 2 years. The couple who owns it lives out of state. The home has NOT been maintained. The grass WAS waist high. That's been reported in msm.
I think you guys are thinking of "lawn" type grass. What I'm seeing in the photos is wild grass. Trust me, out here in the country it takes over pretty quickly if you don't maintain your property. We let a feild on our property go for about a year, and had to bring in a bush hog to cut it all down. It was easily up to my thighs...and that was only after a year of neglect.
It's also interesting to note that LE was out at the Franklin house on Wednesday. it wasn't until Thursday that they found her body. So she was NOT immediately visible.
I don't see the correlation between that and raping & murdering a young woman he had raised as his own daughter for several years.
There have never been any allegations of molestation or a big falling out between AJ & WH, have there?
You can read all you want to into that 1 photo, but the only fact I know about him & AJ is that he helped to raise a well-liked, well-rounded, seemingly successful beautiful young woman. IDK the (stereo)typical profile of a sexual molestation victim, but she isn't it. She was doing great, AFAIK.
The reporter said the clothes were found March 19 on Battlefield Blvd. That fits in with the 2-4 week ago sighting of the mini-van. The car could have been rented if the killer went to retrieve clothes and drop them off on Battlefield and didn't want to be identified by say, a big red pickup! (Were those clothing items ever identified as belonging to AJ?)
Also, what the heck was he doing with all the ammo?? Was that in case of a standoff with police? Could she have been held at that motel that week or so?
I understand that you think that of journalist, and I'm not one to defend them as a whole, but individually, there are good ones, in print and broadcast, but they're hampered by politics, egos, ambition, blah blah blah and a whole entourage of tech, editorial, legal etc... so it's incumbent on the consumers of whatever news source to filter for that. Most of them are folks with families trying do the right thing in big institutions run on money, not like here, on WS.
I don't see the correlation between that and raping & murdering a young woman he had raised as his own daughter for several years.
There have never been any allegations of molestation or a big falling out between AJ & WH, have there?
You can read all you want to into that 1 photo, but the only fact I know about him & AJ is that he helped to raise a well-liked, well-rounded, seemingly successful beautiful young woman. IDK the (stereo)typical profile of a sexual molestation victim, but she isn't it. She was doing great, AFAIK.
I'm still catching up, so some of this may have been addressed. Please forgive me if this is redundant.
A few comments/questions I have seen about where she was found:
1. Streetlights where AJ was found -- someone said that they might be dim. Or, if they are anything like where I live in rural Virginia, they are non existent. I'm not sure if this property was 'in' Franklin and on a street, or if it was outside of town. If it was the latter, definitely no streetlights -- not even on the corners of the roads, unless a main road. If it was the former, they may just be at the corners. So...very easy for someone who wasn't really looking for a specific color caravan to say -- maybe green, maybe blue -- heck, maybe even gray or black. Just the fact that someone reported a suspicious dark van was a good call.
2. Dates on when the neighbors saw the van out there -- it's really easy to get mixed up about dates -- again, especially if you are thinking back a few days or a few weeks (at least it is when you are my age). I have mentioned to my grown kids something we did "the other day" and they will say, "Mom...we did that a few weeks ago..." Not early dementia. Just not paying attention.
3. Distance between Norfolk and Franklin may look like 20 min on a map, but it's probably closer to an hour. I was just down Chesapeake way the other day (or the other week...see, it happens all the time!) and it took me an hour to get from Chesapeake to Windsor on a Saturday evening -- not during rush hour or anything.
This also might explain why someone in Franklin wouldn't automatically think that a suspicious vehicle at an abandoned house would be related to a young girl missing from Norfolk.
When I read that it was a vacant house where she was found, I thought of a few that I know nobody ever checks on some of the back roads around where I live. These are perfect places for the bad guys to dispose of people and things that they don't want to be found for a long, long time.
4. Tall grass. I live in the country and it sure looks like old overgrown dead grass from last year. It's not new growth. All I have to do is to look out into one of my back pastures to see the same. It's holdover from last fall, most likely.
Anyway...just my two cents (or 4 cents, in this case, I guess).
I don't see the correlation between that and raping & murdering a young woman he had raised as his own daughter for several years.
There have never been any allegations of molestation or a big falling out between AJ & WH, have there?
You can read all you want to into that 1 photo, but the only fact I know about him & AJ is that he helped to raise a well-liked, well-rounded, seemingly successful beautiful young woman. IDK the (stereo)typical profile of a sexual molestation victim, but she isn't it. She was doing great, AFAIK.
What's the make of the dark green vehicle we saw in the driveway on streetview, do you recall? I've looked again, but I can't tell. Plus, I kind of remember Zach telling us they no longer had that vehicle, but I might be recalling that incorrectly.