I’ve walked these trails many times alone and never felt unsafe. It’s shocking that something like this would happen in broad daylight at a time UGA classes are in session. It’s wooded, but there are usually people around on the trails, intramural fields and tennis courts, dog off-leash area, parking deck, etc.
It’s not the neighborhood that brings safety. It’s the witnesses. Please do not jog alone where you may have no police protection, campuses, private property, woods, water district arroyos, etc, where police do not have jurisdiction. According to my mother , uncle and father (homicide reporter and detective missing persons homicide narcotics, NYPD)stranger offenders (if that’s the case and this isn’t intimate partner killing) are hunters searching for prey, they can’t be geographically predicted. They search out unpoliced locales with attractive young (
fantasy or pedophile fantasy) solitary targets who routinely pass through.(like the canal killings .) This also applies to late city night streets deserted due to the lateness of the hour, and victims made especially vulnerable by intoxication or with children, horribly, sometimes previous abuse. (according to sources , Jeanne Toomey assignment homicide reporter , Peter ,Nicholas ,and William Terranova deputy chief, missing persons and homicide NYPD detectives.)This is in absolutely no way blaming the victims but being stated as a caution and explanation. In other words, low crime districts do not exclude this sort of crime, there is no correlation , unlike with other crimes like car theft , home invasion, that can be predicted by crime stats. So just because you are in a very safe jurisdiction and have low probability of theft, carjacking, home invasion, does not mean you are at all safer from sexual psychopaths. There is safety in numbers. Don’t jog alone if there are no crowds.
nypost.com
