Here is the comment from someone who sounds as if he/she knew her:
http://connect.masslive.com/user/MBee20/index.html
"Phoebe was such a great girl and it was her first year not only in high school but in the states and this is how we welcomed her. This is poor girl was call horrible names...
If it was anything besides a suicide then there would have to be fingerprints on the noose (scarf) that she used. There is no mention of any forced entry into the house either. These kids are clearly not the sharpest tacks in the drawer, so it does not fit for them to have had an elaborate...
Did some further digging. In the court document for Velazquez (page 4-5) it states that Renaud was an upperclassman at South Hadley.
http://media.masslive.com/breakingnews/other/sharon_velazquez.pdf
So she met him at school.
Poor Phoebe. The more I read these documents, the sadder it...
The court documents (I am looking at the one regarding Sharon Velasquez) state that the last outgoing text message on Phoebe's phone was 2:48pm. The call to 911 was 4:55pm.
That leaves 2 hours and 7 min during which she constructed her plan and killed herself.
In the comments of one of...
Does anyone know how Renaud first met Phoebe? I don't think he was enrolled in the high school. It seems obvious that she met Mulveyhill in school, but I have not read anything to indicate where she met Austin Renaud.