I'm looking back through old articles again... found this one particularly interesting:
We dont want people to think there is some crazed rapist out there, said Sgt. Cherie Smith of the Wenatchee Police Department. That was not the motivation for this at all.
Smith said investigators declined to comment on what they suspect is the motivation for the 17-year-olds death. They have also declined to comment on the cause of her death. She said investigators do not want to comment on when they think she died.
Smith said Monday that when Cowells body was found Feb. 13 on a beach at Crescent Bar, she was wearing the same clothes that she was last seen wearing when she was alive on Feb. 9. She was also wearing the same boots that she was wearing in a video, released by the task force, of her walking to her car in a city-owned parking lot Feb. 9. The lot is behind the Academy of Hair Design, 208 S. Wenatchee Ave., where Cowell was a student.
"At all." Then they know what the motivation was. It could have been a failed rape attempt that led to violence, but not according to Cherie Smith, who says that rape was not a motivation "at all."
To exclude attempted rape as a motivation, they'd have to have another motivation in place. Wonder whose face is on that card that they're holding so close to their chest.