LA - Mickey Shunick, 21, Lafayette, 19 May 2012 - #16

[AndiLA]

I just can't imagine being drunk enough to wanna drive over calling an ambulance, unless they were gonna drop her off near a hospital and bounce.

Therein lies the problem. If this was a DUI coverup, they weren't thinking about Mickey. They were thinking about themselves and the consequences they'd face if they were found to be drunk when they hit her. So, instead of facing the music and potentially saving her life, they most likely just dumped her somewhere like a piece of garbage. Again, I hope I'm wrong.

 

[chicken fried]

for 3 hours from now :banghead:

lol - you'll do it. but go to bed NOW!

 

[JennMonkey]

God bless all of you, please pray for me as well as Mickey. I have a lunch with my father I haven't spoken to in 3 years. I hope we can put aside our differences. If Mickey can bring us together then she is an angel. Love to you Mickey!

 

[bessie]

God bless all of you, please pray for me as well as Mickey. I have a lunch with my father I haven't spoken to in 3 years. I hope we can put aside our differences. If Mickey can bring us together then she is an angel. Love to you Mickey!

Oh, Laffy, I hope it works out well.

ETA: Go to bed, Lindsay! Good luck, tomorrow.

 

[chicken fried]

God bless all of you, please pray for me as well as Mickey. I have a lunch with my father I haven't spoken to in 3 years. I hope we can put aside our differences. If Mickey can bring us together then she is an angel. Love to you Mickey!

He'll be glad to see you ... maybe it's been *long enough* for things to change

 

[twiggy]

Therein lies the problem. If this was a DUI coverup, they weren't thinking about Mickey. They were thinking about themselves and the consequences they'd face if they were found to be drunk when they hit her. So, instead of facing the music and potentially saving her life, they most likely just dumped her somewhere like a piece of garbage. Again, I hope I'm wrong.

that's what I think too especially since there was no blood. seems like someone would have heard a crash if she was hit.

 

[LaffyMO]

New article from The Advertiser includes an interesting new admission:

Image in front of Circle K "and another shot of the truck that has not been released were used to definitively identify the vehicle." Wow -- sounds like that truck might indeed have shown up on either one of those cameras further down St. Landry or the LCG lot.

Hope the link works -- first time I've tried this here.

http://www.theadvertiser.com/article/20120601/NEWS01/206010332/Police-continue-search-white-pickup-driver?odyssey=tab%7Ctopnews%7Ctext%7CFRONTPAGE&nclick_check=1

 

[makjang]

New article from The Advertiser includes an interesting new admission:

Image in front of Circle K "and another shot of the truck that has not been released were used to definitely identify the vehicle." Wow -- sounds like that truck might indeed have shown up on either one of those cameras further down St. Landry or the LCG lot.

Hope the link works -- first time I've tried this here.

http://www.theadvertiser.com/article/20120601/NEWS01/206010332/Police-continue-search-white-pickup-driver?odyssey=tab%7Ctopnews%7Ctext%7CFRONTPAGE&nclick_check=1

Finally! A smidge more info!

And that confirms the theory that LE has more images than they are releasing (though I don't think we doubted that).

 

[JennMonkey]

He'll be glad to see you ... maybe it's been *long enough* for things to change

I hope so. I miss my daddy.

 

[makjang]

I hope so. I miss my daddy.

I don't know you, but (((hug))). I went through something similar, but for 10 years. I hope this works out for you.

 

[LaffyMO]

Finally! A smidge more info!

And that confirms the theory that LE has more images than they are releasing (though I don't think we doubted that).

Yes, and of course now we all have to wonder just how much more video they have...and of whom or what. But I was certainly hoping they had more to go on than just one shot -- I think that's a good thing.

 

[chicken fried]

Please look carefully at the Google Earth screencaps I have uploaded.
These go with the drop-site theory I began on page 28.....

This seems very possible.

Perp does a DAYTIME drop from a boat, because putting out at night could attract more attention with the lights.

He puts in at Butte La Rose... goes upstream and loops around to Whiskey Bay from the back, so as to get to the Pilot Channel branch and access that deep water flowing south.

Pilot_Channel_1

After he hits the channel, there are camps on the left bank, so he can't risk being seen.

Pilot_Channel_2

He passes the last camp just far enough to be out of possible sight... far enough from the bridge where no one can see what he's doing... throws in a weighted bag..... and then the bike. He sees the bike sink, but forgot about the inflated front tire. He thinks he's done, and in the clear, turns around and heads back to Butte La Rose.

Meanwhile, the bike bobs along a bit under the surface.... follows the current... as the channel bends, it drifts more and more to the left, following its momentum. Finally, the bike comes to rest near the bottom of the bridge, along with all the other trash that the bend has collected... to be later found lying just off the bank and mostly submerged....by the fisherman.

Drop_Site

That puts the capper on my theory I developed beginning on Page 28.

Please view the links!

 

[chicken fried]

Need to test a bike of that type with one inflated tire to see how it floats.

 

[makjang]

Please look carefully at the Google Earth screencaps I have uploaded.
These go with the drop-site theory I began on page 28.....

This seems very possible.

Perp does a DAYTIME drop from a boat, because putting out at night could attract more attention with the lights.

He puts in at Butte La Rose... goes upstream and loops around to Whiskey Bay from the back, so as to get to the Pilot Channel branch and access that deep water flowing south.

Pilot_Channel_1

After he hits the channel, there are camps on the left bank, so he can't risk being seen.

Pilot_Channel_2

He passes the last camp just far enough to be out of possible sight... far enough from the bridge where no one can see what he's doing... throws in a weighted bag..... and then the bike. He sees the bike sink, but forgot about the inflated front tire. He thinks he's done, and in the clear, turns around and heads back to Butte La Rose.

Meanwhile, the bike bobs along a bit under the surface.... follows the current... as the channel bends, it drifts more and more to the left, following its momentum. Finally, the bike comes to rest near the bottom of the bridge, along with all the other trash that the bend has collected... to be later found lying just off the bank and mostly submerged....by the fisherman.

Drop_Site

That puts the capper on my theory I developed beginning on Page 28.

Please view the links!

Thank you so much for breaking it down bit by bit. I tried to examine your original map shot, and got turned around once or twice.

If someone were to do this by boat, this certainly seems like a likely scenario.

 

[chicken fried]

Link to map of Butte la Rose area. Whiskey Bay at top left.

 

[CHERIE.T]

http://www.kadn.com/feature/lafayette-police-investigating-two-overnight-shooting

I doubt this is related to Mickey.

 

[chicken fried]

The key to my theory is how the channel bends. Stuff in the water tends to collect there. The interesting coincidence is that if I think like a perp, and don't want to be seen from a camp, I pass the last camp, but don't want to get too close to the bridge... that puts the drop spot in the exact place it needs to be to wash up at the bridge and give a last testament to Mickey's fate.

Karma. He thought the bike would sink.

:frown:

 

[bessie]

It's an excellent theory, IMO, chicken. Inflated objects in water don't remain stationary. So if the front tire held air, it's reasonable to conclude the location site was a destination, with the point of origin being elsewhere. What do you know of the currents that would help us work backward to an origination point?

 

[CHERIE.T]

New article from The Advertiser includes an interesting new admission:

Image in front of Circle K "and another shot of the truck that has not been released were used to definitively identify the vehicle." Wow -- sounds like that truck might indeed have shown up on either one of those cameras further down St. Landry or the LCG lot.

Hope the link works -- first time I've tried this here.

http://www.theadvertiser.com/article/20120601/NEWS01/206010332/Police-continue-search-white-pickup-driver?odyssey=tab%7Ctopnews%7Ctext%7CFRONTPAGE&nclick_check=1

Finally, something more to hold onto. I hoped cops had info they weren't releasing. Keep your fingers crossed.

 

[LaffyMO]

The key to my theory is how the channel bends. Stuff in the water tends to collect there. The interesting coincidence is that if I think like a perp, and don't want to be seen from a camp, I pass the last camp, but don't want to get too close to the bridge... that puts the drop spot in the exact place it needs to be to wash up at the bridge and give a last testament to Mickey's fate.

Karma. He thought the bike would sink.

:frown:

I can absolutely follow you on your theory here -- it's perfectly logical. Of course, the tragic offshoot to the theory, though, which gives me a somber feeling, is that if someone dropped a weighted body in that area, there's a very high probability that it will never be found, unless they managed to get sonar right on top of it.