CA CA - Phuong Le, 24, Fairfield, 25 April 2010 - #2

[panthera]

Early this AM on WS, a friend of Phuong's told us that the road her body was found also goes past the school she just graduated from. I thought that was significant. moo

Oh thanks ~ I'm still catching up reading! That does tell me a lot. Maybe someone she knew from school? If it is Phuong who was found, I'm just not seeing Ngyuen being the perp at this point. MOO

 

[sarx]

Early this AM on WS, a friend of Phuong's told us that the road her body was found also goes past the school she just graduated from. I thought that was significant. moo

I can't decide if it seems significant or not being that the school is down more in town. It could just be that there aren't that many roads that head up into that area and was coincidence. Maybe, maybe not?

 

[sarx]

Anyone know if any of the people they are looking at liked to fish? Had/have a boat? Like to camp?

ETA- Is that an area she was familiar with and/or frequented for recreational activities?

 

[panthera]

Thanks. Yes I meant to say 27 minutes - it is about 14 miles. It is a back road, but the road is continuous, and follows a straight path, and strangely enough past the college she just graduated from.

To me this takes everything in a much different direction, such as possibly someone she knew from college who might live up in that area. It just seems so far out of the way if the person was closer to where she was last seen at B&N. MOO

 

[darlin gal]

Moody acknowledge that police only decided to announce the discovery to the press after a Sacramento television station was tipped to the investigation and showed up at the scene with Le's brother following.

http://www.timesheraldonline.com/ci_15046128?source=most_viewed

 

['Ailina]

I'm not familiar with the area, but judging from the map and satellite image, if someone from the Fairfield Barnes & Noble needed to access a remote area in a hurry, Wooden Valley Road (to Hwy. 121) was the obvious choice. That was the quickest, most direct way to get out of town. And only a person familiar with the area would know those roads were a sure way to nowhere. Someone unfamiliar with the area would've probably just stuck to the freeways. ???

 

[panthera]

Moody acknowledge that police only decided to announce the discovery to the press after a Sacramento television station was tipped to the investigation and showed up at the scene with Le's brother following.

http://www.timesheraldonline.com/ci_15046128?source=most_viewed

And it seems nothing more will be announced until the autopsy is completed.

 

[panthera]

I'm not familiar with the area, but judging from the map and satellite image, if someone from the Fairfield Barnes & Noble needed to access a remote area in a hurry, Wooden Valley Road (to Hwy. 121) was the obvious choice. That was the quickest, most direct way to get out of town. And only a person familiar with the area would know those roads were a sure way to nowhere. Someone unfamiliar with the area would've probably just stuck to the freeways. ???

BBM

That's why I'm now leaning toward someone she may have known from the college, mostly because it is up in that area. I can't think of a motive unless it was possibly someone she rejected, but it still seems more likely, imo, than a random stranger. MOO

 

[eyes4crime]

To me this takes everything in a much different direction, such as possibly someone she knew from college who might live up in that area. It just seems so far out of the way if the person was closer to where she was last seen at B&N. MOO

I agree - that tells me the perp was familiar wtih the area and perhaps, very familiar with Phuong. Although that is a long way to drive with a deceased body in your car. Wonder what else is up along the road that might be of interest to Phuong? Any motels? moo

 

[cluciano63]

Or someone decided to head out there to make it appear as though it could have been someone from her school...

 

['Ailina]

Someone from her nursing class might've known her B&N/gym routine very well. They'd have known what kind of vehicle she drove, too. And if the perp were very well acquainted with her, they might've have been in her car before and so maybe they learned how to release the trunk.

 

[panthera]

I agree - that tells me the perp was familiar wtih the area and perhaps, very familiar with Phuong. Although that is a long way to drive with a deceased body in your car. Wonder what else is up along the road that might be of interest to Phuong? Any motels? moo

We know TN was the last person she'd talked to on the phone, so if this person is someone she knew, how did he contact her that night or know she was at B&N? I've got one possibility that the perp is from the school, and another one that he lives out in that area but maybe works at the store or the mall and knew her from there. MOO

 

['Ailina]

Or the gym.

 

[Blue Ridge]

Early this AM on WS, a friend of Phuong's told us that the road her body was found also goes past the school she just graduated from. I thought that was significant. moo

It is interesting, at least. If that road is the most logical route out of town to a secluded place to dump a body, then the fact that her school is also on that road may be just a coincidence. But if she were seeing someone while she was still in school there, who later turned out to be the perp, it might have been somehow sentimental/logical/automatic in his mind to head in that direction.

 

[panthera]

Or the gym.

But had she even been there that night? Unless he just happened to see her car in the parking lot at B&N and waited for her to come out of the store. :waitasec: MOO

 

[panthera]

It is interesting, at least. If that road is the most logical route out of town to a secluded place to dump a body, then the fact that her school is also on that road may be just a coincidence. But if she were seeing someone while she was still in school there, who later turned out to be the perp, it might have been somehow sentimental/logical/automatic in his mind to head in that direction.

Or possibly someone from the school who she didn't want to have anything to do with, or was jealous of her academic achievements while he was struggling? Or worse, someone who resented that she, as an immigrant, was successful? MOO

 

['Ailina]

But had she even been there that night? Unless he just happened to see her car in the parking lot at B&N and waited for her to come out of the store. :waitasec: MOO

I doubt she'd been to the gym that night. If it's a stalking case, I don't think it would've been too difficult for someone to learn her routine. Her own family described her as something of a homebody who didn't really do anything except go to B&N and the gym. The only other activity she did on a regular basis (as far as we know) was nursing school, at least until she graduated.

 

[Blue Ridge]

I just hope and pray that even as we speak, they are recovering some useful DNA from her body.

 

[i.b.nora]

I hope this link to map works.
Its a map from Barnes & Noble to the intersection of Wooden Valley Road and Monticello Road which is near the location of where at least one of the reports says the body was found.
It does not go particularly near the College. It does goes near the Rancho Solano area.

 

[sarx]

It is interesting, at least. If that road is the most logical route out of town to a secluded place to dump a body, then the fact that her school is also on that road may be just a coincidence. But if she were seeing someone while she was still in school there, who later turned out to be the perp, it might have been somehow sentimental/logical/automatic in his mind to head in that direction.

I am about 2 1/2 hours from that area but know from camping trips as a college student how to get to those roads and how remote they get very quickly. So, while I tend to think it is someone familiar with area, it doesn't nec. have to be. KWIM?