A lot of interesting information came out in the GH interview with the sister-in-law Amanda. Juana's husband and daughter were in the background and filled in some of the answers. I'll try to summarize:
Juana's husband works at a restaurant called Cinco de Mayo which is about a block from their home. The restaurant closes at 9:00 pm.
At around 9:00 pm, Juana told her daughter that she was going to take a walk to Cinco.
Sometime after 9:00 the husband phoned home from Cinco and said that he had tried to call Juana, but she hadn't answered. The daughter told him that her mother had left to walk to Cinco, and he said she wasn't there.
At 9:26 the daughter phoned her mother and asked her where she was. Juana said that she didn't go to Cinco, that she was enjoying the night and decided to walk for awhile. Amanda said that it is not unusual for her to go for long walks.
The husband phoned Juana at 10:28 and she told him that she was just leaving Snappers to head for home. She told him he should get the kids ready for bed. The husband said that she sounded normal, that her voice didn't sound like she had been drinking. That was the last time she answered the phone. The bartender at Snappers said she wasn't there. Her husband viewed Snappers camera footage with the police and she was not seen. Snappers is not a place she would normally go.
Amada sent GH copies of the phone records for Juana, her husband and her daughter. The logs showed that the husband tried phoning her repeatedly starting at 11:05 pm.
Amanda contacted local businesses asking for them to check their cameras and they have all been cooperative. The Elementary School camera shows a woman walking west on Park Lane at around 11:15. She looks back and breaks into a run. She is next picked up by the Jr. High School camera, walking west on Illini. She cut through a parking lot from Park Lane and came out on Illini. Amanda quoted the policeman as saying "that was not an exercise run, that was a frightened run." The quality of the pictures is poor and they can't make a positive ID, but the woman seen on camera matches the general description of Juana and the clothes she is wearing match what Juana was wearing. The only thing that is different is that the police say that it looks like the woman on camera is carrying a large bag. Juana's daughter says that when her mother left the house she was carrying her purse, but it is not large.
Juana's family and the police watched all of the camera footage from the schools until dawn. About 2 or 3 minutes after the woman started running, a car sped down Park Lane traveling west, but it turned right (north) on Illini. The only person they saw was a man wearing shorts and a hoodie, who appeared around 1:20 am, and they doubt if he is connected.
It was helpful to see all of the locations on the map..... Juana's home, Cinco, Snappers, the two schools.
GH said that about 15 minutes were edited out of the interview. He said that Amanda had told him that several people have told her about a man who lives in the area who has been acting strange, and she talked about him by name. GH indicated on the map the general area where the man lives, but he cut out specific references for obvious reasons.
It wasn't always easy to follow the interview because people kept commenting in the live chat and GH was responding to them, talking over the interview. He says that he will replay the interview tomorrow (Wednesday) without interruption.
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