I've spent the last two days reading almost all of this forum. This is my first post, and here is my two cents:
One would think that the first thing Morgan would do is go to the box office and buy another ticket. Especially since she'd waited 6 months for this!! But if it the box office was closed.... she would have to call her friends to explain the situation.
However...maybe she couldn't get ahold of the friends immediately for whatever reason. There she is stranded, let's say that the perp was premeditatedly stalking the outside of the arena looking for a potential victim that night. (This was sort of the profile given by a professional criminologist toward the beginning of the blogs.)
This criminal could be sitting in a car, waiting for an opportunity such as a woman stumbling out of the venue, possibly to throw up.
If the perp has been to concerts, then he knows that this happens; and he also know that there is sort of a comraderie amongst fellow concert-goers, even strangers. Perhaps the perp approached her after observing her failed attempt to get back into the arena. He knew that she would be cold and stranded, and perhaps he wore a warm raincoat. One that he could let her borrow, as he commisserated with her about missing that show. Maybe he even went as far as to say that he too had been denied re-entry too! Acting like a fellow concert-goer, somebody she could relate to.
All it would take is him gaining her trust, and he could easily lure her into his trap, by getting her to agree that it would be warmer/drier in his car.
If it all happened fairly quickly, by the time the phone call was made, he could have had a gun up to her telling her what to say. That would explain why the phone conversation was so brief and so vague. The phone call was so odd. Particularly the part about I'll find a ride. I don't think that was her. Her coerced, more likely.
Last spring my friends and I went to see a show at JPJ. During the show, and even at intermission, it was so loud in there that you could not hear your friends when they called, you could not hear the conversation. We ended up texting. I remember it was hot and crowded in there. The smoking section was a separate balcony outside, it too was jam packed. If I had felt sick, I would have been way claustrophobic, and gone all the way outside the arena for fresh air.
The lack of a jacket on that cold of a night, could have really been a big deal in this whole thing.
Didn't folks say it snowed on the Blue Ridge that night. So that brings me to the other question of where did he take her? Charlottesville is crowded with lots of stop lights and places she could escape a vehicle. My guess is he took her to one of the many deserted rural areas west or south of town, as quick as possible to avoid detection. Probably that night.
He may have raped her. If her body is discovered, then the forensics might be able to crack this case. Because if you do not put stock in the sightings around town, it is easy to see that in one car ride, the perp got her from crime scene #1 to crime scene #2.
I used to love how Dale Hynman of Court TV would figure out the profile of the perp and go from there. I wonder if Dale could be brought in?!
I think that police should try and see a larger pattern, as this looks like a serial killer could be striking. Look at all the vehicles that are being described and see if that matches any patterns with past crimes against women in Central Virginia. What about viewing footage from cameras in rural locations.
Does anybody know if the BR Parkway was open that night? Or was it shut due to the snow? Are there any surveillence cameras up there? I think the search needs to spread out into those outskirts in order to find her.
