I also felt she was attacked and knows the person. The random location of the culvert would line up better here than a suicide.
But, I also thought when LE said they were exploring other possibilities, could she have been hit by a car? Doesn't really go with the blood and cuts but who knows.
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I don't know if the culvert is that random. It would be known to the inhabitants of that area,I would think.
Maybe she offered a ride to someone she knew after she left her house, before she arrived in the area of the transit station or where her car was parked.
Maybe she offered a ride to someone she knew after she was at the transit station area, or where her car was parked.
Maybe this person lives in the neighborhood. She would be going home anyway to get her badge, why not give this person a ride, if they lived on the way to her house?
The culvert isn't really that far from her house. From Cheryl's house go on down 48th Ave West, then turn on NE 205th St. to Cedar Way. Kinda a hop, skip, and a jump for lack of better phrasing. (I do understand that her badge was still at her house, found at her house)
Maybe the person offered to drive her car while she checked her purse more thoroughly for the badge, even though she texted that her badge was at home. That would then put her in the passenger seat. Or like someone mentioned upthread, maybe someone else borrowed her phone, and the phone was powered off or down by that person.
If she gave a ride to someone she knew, then they might be aware of that text to that carpooling co-worker. They might be aware of her circumstances about the badge at home. Hence, they would bring her vehicle back in that area where the car was found.
It seems personal. Like Cheryl was the target, for whatever reason, other than to steal her credit cards, of which they haven't been used, and the phone hasn't been used, either.
IMOO.