LA - Mickey Shunick, 21, Lafayette, 19 May 2012 - #15

[Cazzie]

Guys this has been covered. It's a street sign.

Yes, someone posted some daytime pics along with the surveillance photo. ]

It was shortly after the pix were released.

 

[KrazyKatLadi]

Bet Artmosphere has pics of the show. Places like that a often show pics on their websites.

This was discussed early on. No pics of her (that have been released)

 

[A.C.I]

Bet Artmosphere has pics of the show. Places like that a often show pics on their websites.

Yeah they do. Ive found lots of pictures, but no good ones of the crowd so I can see the color wrist bands they have on

 

[fleurdenola]

I'm wondering if the truck of interest is a new enough model to have OnStar? I believe it comes standard now on certain GM models. Obviously if you're upto no good, you would not have it "on"...geesh I don't know enough about it to know how works. Once they narrow it down to a specific car they are looking for (exact one), they may be able to locate it that way? Also, the impact of the truck against a bike probably would not trigger it but if the impact was big enough it might?

Anyone suspect that they have the actual truck (exact one) already? They are quite insistent about looking for a Z71, yet the picture they released to the public it's impossible to definitely see any markings signifying Z71, thus all the debate yesterday about vehicle types and if they were right/wrong. We do know they have actual video footage, and that video may show more detail (Z71 marking) or even a license plate.

Perhaps they have the vehicle, but not the occupants. If it was some sort of fleet/shared vehicle and the owner doesn't have an audit process in place to record who exactly has which particular vehicle when, it could be the occupants who they are really looking for. If they have the actual vehicle but not the occupants, at least they would have a definite pool of people to investigate.

I just think they've got information they're not sharing. IMHO, them ruling the other two vehicles out so quickly after releasing descriptions of them could mean they already knew who to look for/where to look for them and could have already been in contact. The release of information could have been only for public appearances/to make the true suspect think they were getting no where. That was just a very quick rule-out, considering they couldn't have a had an alibi that placed them elsewhere since they were captured on camera.

 

[A.C.I]

This was discussed early on. No pics of her (that have been released)

Im just trying to see what the wristbands looked like. Not her.
Just need some good shots of the crowd or peoples facebook/instagram pics from that night

 

[AndiLA]

Hi, everyone! This is my first post here, but I did want to say something regarding the dui/hit & run coverup theory. Many people say if it were a DUI incident, there would have been blood/debris at the scene that would have been impossible for the perp to clean up without being seen. That's not necessarily true. A close friend was recently killed by a drunk driver when he was biking. The driver hit him from behind, while going 60mph. There were no external injuries, nor was there an excessive amount of debris. Most of the evidence was on the vehicle, not at the scene. So, IMO, it is not out of the realm of possibility that this was, indeed, a DUI coverup.

 

[chicken fried]

A.C.I. and I have been debating that.

Between us, we agree that by far the likeliest scenario MS likely turned either on Brashear or into the Lafayette Consolidate Government parking lot to access Azalea from the back. Our inability to reach total accord stems from the fact that A.C.I. thinks she wanted to use Brashear as a cutover to Johnston St., while I disagree that she wanted to go even farther out of her way to the south.

That's a key argument. A key piece of info not released is whether the suspect truck appeared on the samw 224 St. Landry camera that MS didn't. If it did, the truck is likely in the clear. If it didn't the truck likely follwed her either left down Brashear or right into the LCG parking lot and got her there, or chased her down Azalea into the neighborhood (or circled her and cut her off by continuing a bit, passing the lot, and turning right onto St. Mary.

The more I think about it the more I think turning onto Azalea from the back parking lot of LCG is very likely. It would put her in an area with many homes and a quick shot to Souvenir Gate to Cajun Dome Boulevard which is a route I would take having lived in the Saint Streets. However, even though I personally feel it would be the safest, there are a few small pockets of dark and high fencing which would make it difficult for residents to hear some sort of struggle. Just my 2 cents. Also, I recall early on, possibly the Monday or Tuesday of her disappearance, that there were what would appear to be extensive searches on Azalea.

 

[HouDat]

Yeah they do. Ive found lots of pictures, but no good ones of the crowd so I can see the color wrist bands they have on

Found this one on TDA's website. Perhaps some of our photowizards can lighten it or otherwise manipulate it to reveal more?

http://cmsimg.theadvertiser.com/app...o=517005&Ref=PH&Item=8&Maxw=620&Maxh=465&q=60

 

[SurfieTX]

Im just trying to see what the wristbands looked like. Not her.
Just need some good shots of the crowd or peoples facebook/instagram pics from that night

Might see if the photographer from The Advertiser who was there that night has some more shots of the evening that he/she did not publish. He/she published a crowd shot but it is kind of blurry.

 

[KrazyKatLadi]

Im just trying to see what the wristbands looked like. Not her.
Just need some good shots of the crowd or peoples facebook/instagram pics from that night

Ill browse thru fbook and look while I sit here being tortured by my colorist.

 

[chicken fried]

I do not know about other people, but in my circle of friends we constantly talk about where the security cameras are and where new ones have been posted; kinda as a joke. I got a speeding ticket through campus by one and ever since then I have been on the lookout. My father knows where they all are in town. lol. And we are not criminals; probably not as smart as criminals. I suffice it to say that the average criminal knows more about security cameras than the average person with no criminal record.

Security cameras don't give tickets... red-light cameras do. I'm not following the relevance between red-light cameras and security cameras

It would take a heck of a bit of timing for the perp to IDand memorize every single security camera on the way, and then time the abduction so perfectly so none of them caught it. Not saying

 

[nursebeeme]

welcome to websleuths AndiLA!

(and very sorry for the loss of your friend....)

 

[Isabelle]

Im just trying to see what the wristbands looked like. Not her.
Just need some good shots of the crowd or peoples facebook/instagram pics from that night

A question on their Facebook or the Find Mickey page might get answers?

 

[slowlybutshelly]

How would this be relevant?

I was just thinking more people might be at risk right now; if other people had known what the PERP was up to? scary to think about...

 

[PMLsmom]

OT - There is a 1:30 presser today on the Ayla Reynolds case...

 

[scapa]

Hi scapa, missed this one first time through. That "secondary search" at Whiskey Bay late last night had us holding our breaths, particularly when media reported something had been found of evidentiary value. Finally, after much tension, media backtracked and said that, while sonar had picked up an object which looked as if it might be important, in fact it proved not to be. And so the search continues.

Also germane to the discussion: the family have hired a private investigator, perhaps an indication that they are unhappy with current progress (or lack of it).

Many thanks for the case updates, godot, and the continued fine sleuthing, all. I was really hoping the family's ordeal of waiting might have ended, one way or another, by today.

best,


s

 

[chicken fried]

It is relevant if we can determine timing of this issue. I know the truck is relevant but I AM NOT LOOKING AT THE TRUCK (believe it or not) in this pic. I am looking at the cars at the gas station and the spec on the rt of the person running to the gas station. trying to determine why the spec is not in MS photo but in these other two photos. thinking this truck of interest may have been ahead of MS.

The "speck" is there in both photos. Remember that these were different cameras at different angles, with the light reflecting differently off of features at the gas station.

 

[med]

Regarding the hand grips, anyone think its possible the LEO just mentioned them and the handlebars because they were of interest for forensic study not because they were removed?

My husband works with sonar and says that its very hard to make a clean identification with all that's down there being the same approx size as bodies (logs and such).

My father was a diver (white truck and all) and has been hired to recover bodies. He has done it it swamps similar to this one. The water has zero visibility and most is done by feel after initial sonar or dredging. It's good to note too that this water is FULL of things to get caught up in and places underwater where something like a body could get trapped under something large. Going in at night was a huge red flag for me. LE was willing to do something at night in one of the most dangerous recovery situations says something.

Thank you all again for all of your time and determination to bring her home. It's my home and I am sick I can't be there to help in person. I'm not much of a sleuth but hope some local perspective helps you that are.

 

[HouDat]

Hi, everyone! This is my first post here, but I did want to say something regarding the dui/hit & run coverup theory. Many people say if it were a DUI incident, there would have been blood/debris at the scene that would have been impossible for the perp to clean up without being seen. That's not necessarily true. A close friend was recently killed by a drunk driver when he was biking. The driver hit him from behind, while going 60mph. There were no external injuries, nor was there an excessive amount of debris. Most of the evidence was on the vehicle, not at the scene. So, IMO, it is not out of the realm of possibility that this was, indeed, a DUI coverup.

Welcome.

I've been of the opinion that this was a DUI cover-up since early on. Just a hunch, of course.

 

[wodalo]

i have a question for any locals here...
there is a building with a blue stripe along the top in the biker route video... i believe it was a hospital or garage...
looking only at that building... is there any section of the blue stripe anywhere on that building that could be described as newer looking then the rest of the stripe?

i am aware these places have already been searched... but this is a question that is not based on any logical reasoning...