Sadly, I think it would take another body showing up in the harbour for the media to get on this.
This infuriates me. Another beautiful young woman will have been stripped of her life. Whose child, mother, sister, aunt, friend will be next? You? Me? Who?
What if he goes to another city and starts afresh? What if he has come to Saint John from another city with the same attitude?
I find the idea of a serial killer hiding out in the bushes of west Saint John such a stretch.
It may sound like a stretch when you put it that way--I agree. We don't like to admit our beautiful little, 'safe,' cities could harbor a serial killer.
Nope, not us, we think. We don't have to worry about that stuff. It only happens in big cities.
We need to look long and hard at the facts of these three deaths:
Shelby Dawn Williams, last seen: September 22, 2012.
Yeonhee Choi, last seen: April 22, 2013.
Genevieve Cormier, last seen: September 29, 2013.
If anyone hasn't done so already, make careful note of the intervals between their 'missing' dates. (Keep in mind March is snowy and very cold in this area.) Make note of how they just disappeared, into seemingly thin air.
Make note of their last known locations, and of where their bodies washed up.
But at the same time, what other explanation could there be. Suicide? Accident? Those theories are even more of a stretch when you look at the circumstances.
BBM - I agree.
A suicide into the reversing falls would have to happen from the bridge IMO... She was well past the bridge...
Exactly.
What kind of accident could happen for her to end up in the water? Along that path there just doesn't seem to be any direct way to fall down directly into the water......
This is what I would like to know. Even a young person can stumble on a stick, or something in their path, they haven't noticed--but, how could Genevieve have ended up in the water from that path? My understanding is that the path is a very safe distance from the water; and the embankment is overgrown with shrubs; and stunted trees; and huge jutting rocks. A person could not simply roll down into the river.
Maybe a Mack truck could plough it's way down there; but not a 120 lb woman.
And what about Yeonhee Choi five months earlier?
I suppose she could have fell and landed on ground and the tide came in and washed her away.... But I'm not so sure that is likely either.
BBM--If she slipped and fell while walking on the path, she should have been found on or near the path. How could the water get way up there to wash her away?
The only way I can see it, is if she turned around and walked down the wooden stairs built for the jet boat dock.
I feel there is a very, very slim chance of that happening. First of all--I'm not at all sure they don't block off those stairs when the boats aren't using them. They would--or certainly should--be considered dangerous.
Second, she would have been right on water's level, with the stair railings to hold onto. Now, I'll have to go back and check to see if the tide was coming in or going out at around 4:30 pm on the 29th of September, 2013. I believe it was coming in; but either way, there should have been some level of water below those stairs. A local person would know the danger.
She walked that path often. She wanted to get home and get her laundry done. There is no real reason to believe she would have even come near those stairs.
And what about Yeonhee Choi five months earlier?
When the spring time rolls around and the snow is gone I will head down there and see if an accidental fall seems plausible. But just going from memory of that area, it doesn't seem plausible.
I'm not exaggerating to say I have contemplated doing this--many times to be honest. I would like to walk that path from one end to the other by myself.
If you go, please bring your camera and take some pictures for us.
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I heard there is seaweed that is very slippery around the foot of the steps, so do be careful.
