Using ccweb's three examples as a starting point, I want to create an extensive list of reasons why it appears that Kelly's death was not a suicide; please add to this list any reasons that you deem fit:
1. body ended up upstream
2. goggles discovered on the second day of the search in an area that had already been searched
3. Kelly mentioned things were moved around in her home
4. Kelly's mailbox was vandalized; vulgarities written on it
5. Kelly took her car keys and cell phone with her as she ran out of BPA and toward the river; seems she was planning to return to work
6. she left her machine running, as if she planned to return
7. she filled her gas tank, got a volleyball pass, and signed up for cooking classes the night before her disappearance; she had future plans
8. she made plans to meet and walk with coworkers at 11:00-11:30 on the day she disappeared
9. she had just gotten a raise
10. she had just bought a new car, which she loved.
11. she reported to others that she was being stalked
12. water was shallow; Kelly was athletic and a strong swimmer
13. body traveled upstream approx 1.5 miles
14. doors to Kelly's home were found unlocked (after police locked them) following Kelly's disappearance
15. Kelly told coworkers "she'd be right back" or "be back in a minute"
16. she went to work that day. If she planned on suicide, wouldn't she have taken a vacation or sick day and just stayed home?
17. Kelly's family, who were very close with her, are adamant that she did not commit suicide, that this was not in her nature.
18. Suicide by drowning represents only 2% of all suicides, and is usually performed by jumping from a bridge or another high structure--or weights are applied to the body to keep it underwater. The body has a natural tendency to float upward.
19. One does not just walk into rather shallow water and drown, nor for that matter, travel 1.5 miles upstream, against current, and make an extreme sharp left-hand turn (followed by a right-hand turn) into an island area, only to be found on top of a small rock island. It's against all odds.
20. From thread #2, ambersmock (Jeff): While this is not standard MO in all suicides--most people give away their things or give their "precious" things to certain people. And most people who commit suicide write some kind of note--trying to explain to their family why this happened and that they loved them...etc., etc., etc. They also start (some of them) pulling away from friends and sort of dropping out of society. And here we have none of anything that even remotely resembles a standard suicide...at least MOO.
ETA: I've added 2 additional points. Please copy the list above, add your remarks into the list, renumbering as you go, and post to the thread. Anything else?
