I get an eerie feeling as I look at all of those homes on Moore Street between her house and the park. I keep thinking about Breeann Rodriguez. She was killed by a next-door neighbor.
When I was a kid, we'd take shortcuts through some neighbors' yards to get to the next street. We had to. There was a 2/3 of a mile stretch of homes with no break. It was a pain to go all the way around. So we'd cut through the yards where there were no fences. Usually, we were able to cut through by using the yards of kids we knew. Occasionally, we would boldly walk through the yard of some random adult. I remember that my friend moved away, and his yard might as well have had a sidewalk. After he moved, new people moved in, and they didn't like that their yard was a popular cut-through.
I think there is a large sidewalk behind homes straight west of Jessica's home. I can't tell, but it appears that most have fences. I wonder if she would have gone that direction.