PartT, i remember reading about the strap being torn as well, however i'm not sure where i read it or if it was a rumor?
I recall it coming from one of the searchers, but why would they have been told that, if the purse was already found?
If it was torn, then possibly someone took her where it was found. The strap could have been ripped in a struggle. I don't see how someone can just forget their purse somewhere, it's not like it was wallet size..
Unless they are really out of it, whether alcohol, drugs, or head injury.
Maybe a perp conned her into walking there with him and then grabbed her and put her in his car.. maybe a struggle ensued in a car and the purse was ripped off and thrown out the car window.
Or grabbed her on the bridge and took her there...about 25-50 yards, depending on where on the bridge.
I thought a local said that the distance from the bridge to where the purse was found was way to far to throw it. I was thinking along the lines that the perp had his car parked around there (RV lot area)..
May have been me saying that. From the part of Copeley Bridge closest to JPJ, the Lannigan Field parking lot is pretty much right across the street (though the marker on the map shows it found closer to the running track, probably 35 yards more. From the other end of Copeley Bridge, near the Ivy Road intersection, the lot is at least 50 yards away. There was also some earlier confusion (or current) about whether the purse was found in Lannigan Field Parking, or UHall Parking, or Cage Parking. Cage wouldn't be reachable from the bridge, but parts of UHall would be. Also, if someone picked her up from the bridge in a car, within the first 25-50 yards of driving they would be passing Lannigan Field Parking, so throwing it out the driver's side window, across one lane of traffic, wouldn't be hard. Doing all this unobserved might be a bigger issue, but logistically, it would fit.
What did the 711 video claim? I can't remember... please refresh my memory =) I don't think i believed it for some reason.. not sure there was footage, can't recall..
Unfounded allegation for which I can't remember the source. Just reaching.
If she did make it to the 711, maybe the time frame is off that we have and she later was in the RV lot where the purse was found near the Lannigan Field area? She could have went to 711 (if that is true) got a coffee to warm up and then headed back towards the concert to meet up with friends. I think the time frame is going by witness sightings, and we all know how witnesses can be.
I guess my own refuting of this is that (if) she was seen hitchhiking on Copeley Bridge, this would have had to be after the 7/11 stop (or else she gave up hitchhiking and went to 7/11, then who knows), or as you point out the time line might be wrong. If she made it to 7/11 after hitchhiking (unsuccessfully) on bridge, she could have been hitchhiking again after coffee or whatever, or could have walked to the lot where whatever happened.
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Has the 711 video actually made it into the news or online at all? What did LE say about that?I don't think they've said anything about this.