GA GA – Rhonda Ilean Smith, 21, Atlanta, Fulton Co., 27 Feb 1984

[Hamish]

I thought that was pretty much what I posted

 

[Bit of hope]

I thought that was pretty much what I posted

Sorry, did I miss something here? Are you answering to something?

 

[marsyao]

Just some thoughts:
- Rhonda's official missing date, per Namus, is 27 February 1984
- Who reported her missing and on what day? As said her fiancé reported her missing, even in two county's, but both of them didn't appear in "the system" until 2018. Who steered her missing case up again?
@ Hamish, where is this info coming from, can you share a source? Is this from the incident rapport? Very interesting, can you share this? Please.
- The next-door neighbor didn't see her for 2-3 days before she was reported missing. We all know that memory can trick us, also depending on when she was asked (by LE, why her and when?). Where is this information coming from? What did the fiancé say about all this.
- Was she actually seen in Wicks and Sticks? By whom and on what exact date and time? I don't know this shop is/was it very big? 2 hours shopping seems a long time in one shop. Where is this info about the two hours shopping coming from?
- The vehicle was located at the Lenox Square Parking deck in Atlanta, with an (empty?) can of beer and an (empty?) wine glass on the console. LE didn't check for fingerprints, didn't process the car. Is this correct? What did they investigate?
-Not a very romantic thing to do, sitting in a car on a parking deck, drinking....but maybe you do this so nobody sees you having an affair or they (for now two people in the vehicle seems to be the most likely) drove somewhere else (and she didn't go shopping, this was just an excuse for seeing someone) and this second person, after something ugly happened, parked the car on the parking deck.
- Maybe she was drugged, drinking the wine
- Maybe nothing bad happened and she "just" decided to leave, leaving her old life behind, with a new lover....not very likely though.

I could go on and on.....so many questions....

I don't think it happened in the car, otherwise at least the perpetrator at least would take the beer bottle and wine glass away

 

[Bit of hope]

I don't think it happened in the car, otherwise at least the perpetrator at least would take the beer bottle and wine glass away

So what do you think...scenario's, theories?

 

[marsyao]

So what do you think...scenario's, theories?

Whatever happened to this lady, it happened outside her car, the beer bottle or wine glass may or may not have anything to do with her case, it just proved someone drank beer or wine (by the way, who drink wine in a car?) in her car, we know too little of this case.

 

[Bit of hope]

Whatever happened to this lady, it happened outside her car, the beer bottle or wine glass may or may not have anything to do with her case, it just proved someone drank beer or wine (by the way, who drink wine in a car?) in her car, we know too little of this case.

Everything is possible. But why are you so sure nothing happened in her car. You didn't give an answer why it didn't happen in her car....so why definitely not?

 

[marsyao]

Everything is possible. But why are you so sure nothing happened in her car. You didn't give an answer why it didn't happen in her car....so why definitely not?

It is just a calculate guess, if someone had a drink with her inside the car, and them something happened, that person either killed her or abducted her in her car, then why that beer bottle and wine glass were left behind?

 

[Coffee56]

GONE COLD | The case of the missing dancer

Tons more photos at link.

 

[Bit of hope]

GONE COLD | The case of the missing dancer

Tons more photos at link.

Grrrrr, access denied. While searching on Google, I can see the additional pictures but I want to hear the case story.

 

[Coffee56]

Grabbed a few of them

 

[Bit of hope]

Grabbed a few of them

Thanks sweet Coffee56. Maybe I should take VPN.

 

[Al Ka]

GONE COLD | The case of the missing dancer

Tons more photos at link.

Thank you. Quite lengthy article but lots of extra and new information. Great photos there too.

Just to add her nickname was Leggs as she had extremely long legs. You could see it in one photo there. (Can't get it here for some reason). She was also exotic dancer in Atlanta.

Last person to see her was her partner.

 

[Al Ka]

Thanks sweet Coffee56. Maybe I should take VPN.

You definitely should . (There are tons of free ones out there). I have published most of the article on my page, so you can read it there too. Link to article - Unidentified And Missing People

 

[Al Ka]

Official FB group created for Rhonda by family - Justice For Rhonda

 

[Bit of hope]

Thanks for all the additional info Al Ka. I read your Facebook page also. There is nothing mentioned about the bear bottle and the wineglass in the car. Some things around her disappearance sound a little fishy. There is no one who actually saw or spoke to her during the day, accept T's claim that she was home and left 6:30 in the morning? Who goes shopping that early or was it a long drive to Atlanta? How did she get access to the car? Did the car-owner gave her the keys to it?. Has he seen her just before she left? The neighbor told she didn't see Rhonda for a couple of days before the day she went missing. I wonder if she had contact with her mom or friends in the day's before she went missing. (20 call in a short amount of day's and then nothing for 2 weeks) T can say anything.....but was Rhonda there, at home, in the early morning of the 27th. Did she really had a shopping appointment with a friend. At what time? Is that confirmed by the friend?

 

[Bit of hope]

And who actually used/owned the car, the Chevrolet Truck? From the interview "Security meets me on the other side of Davison’s and I followed him back around. He said truck was registered under <name>. said he worked for T". Up in the this thread WS-member Hamish says. "The car was released back to the fiancé's dad". (don't know his/her source) I would think dad has the same surname as the fiancé, so it's not the same person. I still find it strange that LE didn't process the car.

 

[Bit of hope]

GONE COLD | The case of the missing dancer

Tons more photos at link.

Hi Coffee56, is there by any chance a transcript?

 

[Bit of hope]

I can't see it totally, because of the circumstances Rhonda went missing, but could she have been a victim of Samuel Little. He claims two killings in Georgia in 83' - 84' and made portraits of this women. The sketches don't remind me of Rhonda (IIRR, she had cut her hair short when she went missing) but what is the word of a killer/psycho worth?

 

[Murkywaters]

Rhonda Ilean Smith – The Charley Project

Rhona was 6'1. That's very tall, are there any Jane Doe's found around that time who match that description?

 

[Bit of hope]

Rhonda Ilean Smith – The Charley Project

Rhona was 6'1. That's very tall, are there any Jane Doe's found around that time who match that description?

Indeed that is tall, especially for a woman in those days. Maybe she was meeting up with somebody to do business with. "She had quit her dancing job by the time of her disappearance and planned to start a dog grooming and breeding business; she had already placed a print order for business cards". Maybe the beer bottle and wineglass was to toasted on the deal. Maybe she put an add up...and a bad person responded to that.