LA - Mickey Shunick, 21, Lafayette 19 May 2012 - #29

[GulfCoastKAT]

New posters! I think these are fabulous. If the person responsible for Mickey's disappearance is local, these may haunt him/her. I think I'll print some an help cover Lafayette with them!
http://www.findmickeynow.com

 

[concentric]

My middle sis is a former 911 operator/supervisor from New Iberia. The first time we spoke about Mickey she mentioned this immediately.

She believes she was taken to BR and sold, and if this is the case she is far far away.

Let's hope my sis is wrong. That is just way too horrible for me to imagine.

LA

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Wanted to post this again. Thanks.

 

[GulfCoastKAT]

Of the several, my favorite continues to be, in re: human trafficking, "because there is no advantage in kidnapping middle-class white women, whose disappearance will create greater interest in the media and draw more scrutiny from LE and from the general public."

Runaways? Sure. College students? Nope.

An argument could still be made that they misjudged Mickey. They see her alone at 2am... Grab, then realize later that she isn't their "usual" victim. What to do at that point? I'm assuming they just kept going. There was no way to know that she was a college student who would immediately be missed by her family just by seeing her alone on her bike at 2am.

 

[wfgodot]

An argument could still be made that they misjudged Mickey. They see her alone at 2am... Grab, then realize later that she isn't their "usual" victim. What to do at that point? I'm assuming they just kept going. There was no way to know that she was a college student who would immediately be missed by her family just by seeing her alone on her bike at 2am.

True, all sorts of arguments can be made. But they rely on one or more unnecessary twists.

 

[concentric]

Just a fact:

Another young, petite, blonde woman from the southern U.S. never found is:

Natalee Holloway

And no, I don't want to discuss that case here.

 

[Northside neighbor]

. Mickey may be alive and her life is more important than building a case. But as you said JMO.

Amen to that!

 

[concentric]

Of the several, my favorite continues to be, in re: human trafficking, "because there is no advantage in kidnapping middle-class white women, whose disappearance will create greater interest in the media and draw more scrutiny from LE and from the general public."

Runaways? Sure. College students? Nope.

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Sorry, but I've read about several cases of middle-class young white women being kidnapped and trafficked right here in the U.S. Here are just some of the instances of this, that myself and others have posted about:

One young woman was working in a mall in a cosmetics section, and the abductors lured her with a job of being a makeup artist. They met with her at a restaurant for a "business meeting" and when she went outside to her car to retrieve her sweater, she was forced into a vehicle and disappeared for months. From a middle-class family who cared greatly about her.

Another was a typical middle-class teenager who met a girl at school who pretended that the abductor was her father, and asked her if she wanted to make money cleaning condos. They abducted and drugged her, and accepted money from men to brutally abuse her for days.

A third, middle-class teenager was abducted by "friends" right from the driveway of her own home.
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I have articles linked to all of these cases in postings I made on Websleuths, Sierra Lamar case.

Also, the young women/teenagers in the above cases were eventually rescued, because, I believe, they were trafficked in the U.S.

 

[paris_paris]

I've forgotten now if Mickey was an Anthropology major, or if she was going to work for a place called Anthropology.

Could someone enlighten me please. I'd also like to know how many years to complete the course at ULL.

 

[Foxfire]

Many human trafficking victims are being lured via social media sites such as facebook. There have been several cases of late. Tn in 2010, there were human trafficking investigations in over 80% of their counties.
With that said Mickey Schunick's abduction indicates a bump & grab, crime of opportunity by multiple perps, imo. The indicators are; she was prolly observed somewhere in her 4 mile route home, yet vanished in the most secluded section of her route-the possible cleaning of the crime scene-rear wheel damage of bike-disposal of the bike 30 miles away at Whiskey Bay-the probable preplanned safe haven she was taken, where others had been taken before by a predator/s that were experienced & no stranger/s to the game, jmho.

When a crime occurs, LE converges on the crime scene. A predator wants to get as far away from the scene of the crime as fast as possible without detection. The perps in MS's abduction had no way of knowing that there would not be an imediate response by LE, or that the search for her wouldn't start for over 10 hours later.

Nor that her abduction would ignite the communities amazing response to bring her home and the perp/s to justice.

example of fb h/t abduction-
Tennessee couple charged in alleged Logan County abduction ...
www.sj-r.com/.../Tennessee-couple-charged-in-alleged-Logan-Count...


Oct 12, 2011 – LINCOLN — A Tennessee couple is jailed in Illinois after the abduction of a 14-year-old girl police say they met through Facebook.

 

[HouDat]

If this is the case, then the bike would have been left in the street. As heavy as the traffic in Lafayette is that time of night someone would have passed it laying in the road. Not everyone stops and grabs things dropped or left behind, but someone would have noticed it. You would think if this was the case, someone would have admitted it by now.

I don't know that someone would have admitted it.

Example: Person with criminal background and/or outstanding warrants and/or currently on probation discovers bike, helps themselves to it; later discovers the connection to a missing woman; fears going to LE based on one (or all) of the aforementioned factors, and ditches the bike in a location which a) is a known dumping ground for evidence of crimes; b) could (in theory, at least) conceal (by washing away, by submersion, etc.) any trace of that bike having been in the possession of said person.

I'm still very much open to the idea that the person who took Mickey and the person who dumped the bike at WB are different and, likely, unaffiliated.

 

[fleurdenola]

I've forgotten now if Mickey was an Anthropology major, or if she was going to work for a place called Anthropology.

Could someone enlighten me please. I'd also like to know how many years to complete the course at ULL.

She was an Anthropology major. The store Anthropologie came up as Lauren Spierer (another case of a petite young woman disappearing without a trace) had gotten an internship with the company.

The Anthropology coursework can be completed in a standard 4 years, 8 semesters. However, that doesn't necessarily mean Mickey was completing it in 4 years. She may have been completing it quicker, right on time, or over more than 8 semesters.

 

[GulfCoastKAT]

I've forgotten now if Mickey was an Anthropology major, or if she was going to work for a place called Anthropology.

Could someone enlighten me please. I'd also like to know how many years to complete the course at ULL.

She was an anthro major at UL. Standard 4year course.
http://soci-anth.louisiana.edu/Pages/courses-anth.html

 

[paris_paris]

TYVM for Mickey's course major information.

 

[OldSteve]

Mickey Shunick: Still missing after a month-
http://www.ksla.com/story/18822317/mickey-shunick-still-missing-after-a-month

Hoping LE has more than we know and is working behind the scenes as they did in Sierra Lamar's case.

 

[concentric]

Now, if a perp.(s) got these young women shipped out to other countries, who would ever be able to find them.

 

[NewYork625]

I've forgotten now if Mickey was an Anthropology major, or if she was going to work for a place called Anthropology.

Could someone enlighten me please. I'd also like to know how many years to complete the course at ULL.

She is a senior majoring in Anthropology.

 

[HouDat]

So it's been 3+ weeks since the bike was found by LE, who sent it to the state crime lab for a "rush" job.

And no word back.

Is the silence due to still incomplete results? Undesired results? Or results which have provided great clues to LE who, in turn, are now tailing a prime suspect stealthily?

 

[cluciano63]

So it's been 3+ weeks since the bike was found by LE, who sent it to the state crime lab for a "rush" job.

And no word back.

Is the silence due to still incomplete results? Undesired results? Or results which have provided great clues to LE who, in turn, are now tailing a prime suspect stealthily?

I don't think they would be tailing a suspect-I think they would enter a house with a swat team...this is a missing person, who could possibly be alive. So I don't believe they have a suspect at all...

 

[Foxfire]

Out of curiousity and my firm belief that the escalation of abductions of young women in the US are directly related to the Meth trade & Cartels. I searched to see if the same issues were of concern in Louisiana that have been investigated in Tennessee, where Holly Bobo vanished 04/13/2011. Tragic Dejavu...

In virtually every stranger abduction by sexual predators, going back to the CA speed freak killers of the 80's, the common denominator is drugs/meth..

Long story short, the drugs come in from the west on I-40(major drug corridor TN) & the money goes back to the west. There were 10 times the stops by the drug task force in the west bound lanes where the money was being returned, as the east bound lanes where the drugs were being brought in. The families and communities are left with the devastating consequencies...


Middle Tennessee Police Profiting Off Drug Trade? - NewsChannel5 ...

http://www.newschannel5.com/story/14643085/police-profiting-off-drug-trade

May 13, 2011 – A major NewsChannel 5 investigation raises serious questions about ... NewsChannel5.com | Nashville News, Weather & SportsMiddle .... Those officers arrested six people during stops on I-40 during that .... 2012 NewsChannel5.com | NewsChannel 5 WTVF-TV Nashville TN | Site hosted by WorldNow.


(I-10 Drug Corridor LA)

http://www.ndsn.org/FEB97/LOUSIANA.html
Louisiana Law Enforcement Stops Innocent Motorists and Seizes Their Property, Reports NBC's "Dateline"

 

[concentric]

I don't think they would be tailing a suspect-I think they would enter a house with a swat team...this is a missing person, who could possibly be alive. So I don't believe they have a suspect at all...

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I posted months ago on the Holly Bobo thread, that if LE thought that there was some kind of "survivalist" group that wanted to obtain women, then they would have a specialized SWAT team at the ready, should anything lead to that. There have been cases of "mountain men" abducting women. However, there is yet to be any indication of that, in the Holly Bobo case (a petite, blonde, young woman who also has not been found.)