LA - Mickey Shunick, 21, Lafayette, 19 May 2012 - #7

[chicken fried]

No we don't know, speaking for myself of course. It would sure be helpful if LE would update the investigation and rule the truck/s & caddy, either in or out as VOIs and their occupants as POIs or suspects..

Due to instinct & experience, I am leaning towards the caddy, myself.

The Caddy does have a large enough trunk for a person and a bike, if it were empty.

 

[Unscripted]

You mean Charlie was staying in B.R.?

Correct. CS stated that CS was visiting with some of her friends and stayed overnight in BR on Friday night. It was in one of the first interviews on the 21st or 22nd I believe.

 

[Woe.be.gone]

I have no idea. Good question. I wonder when Charlie realized, "she's missing?"

It could be that Charlie stayed overnight someplace else and didn't arrive home to her parent's house until Saturday. Mom could have assumed MS was with Charlie - in other words, circumstances were a little different than usual as sister had just come into town the day before. These are grown women and I'm sure they'd come home late before. But when Mickey was nowhere to be found the next day???

I hope their brother is coping with all of this going on - poor kid.

 

[JW1893]

Without a doubt, footage is being reviewed as we speak and a thorough investigation is being conducted. I feel as if the Chevrolet z71 has been seen more than once and that is the footage being withheld. The fact that a search of Whiskey Bay was called off gives us all we need to know from the FBI profiler's perspective.

I have the same feeling about the Chevrolet. Personally, I think they saw something happening on that camera while Mickey was in range of it and that is why they're interested in these two vehicles---the truck because of whatever the saw, the car because it was there at the same time. I think it would be much easier to subdue and move Mickey in a truck than in the car....though the car is suspicious because of the brake lights. They had to have seen something or be involved...but the truck is probably THE most common vehicle in the city, and therefore a good choice.

 

[chicken fried]

No we don't know, speaking for myself of course. It would sure be helpful if LE would update the investigation and rule the truck/s & caddy, either in or out as VOIs and their occupants as POIs or suspects..

Due to instinct & experience, I am leaning towards the caddy, myself.

One little nuance here is that unless the Caddy had just suddenly appeared in town from out of state, the driver was almost certainly black (like Derrick Todd Lee). Empirically speaking, given the local affection blacks have for those old Caddys, that gives you just a smidge of extra data to throw in the hopper. No such racial breakdown with ownership of white trucks.

 

[JurysOut]

Most serial killers and other violent criminals have what's called antisocial personality disorder (synonymous with sociopathy or psychopathy), meaning that they don't have the capacity to experience empathy. They work for their own satisfaction and are literally MISSING a conscience or ability to feel another's pain. Sad and scary indeed.

Wikipedia is not the best source but I checked and their description for this is as accurate as the DSM...

Antisocial personality disorder - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Sociopath Next Door, by Martha Stout

 

[Jbiggoose]

But at some point the tidal effect has to lessen, doesn't it? I thought that is you had a really huge, wide area it would act sort of like a shock absorber, as opposed to a narrow cut? But I'm out of my scientific depth here.

That said, the Atchafalaya is one of the deepest rivers in the world, believe it or not. So I guess that's a lot of water mass moving with the tide, and may well be able to push the Basin water around pretty good, like a master cylinder on a car.

Yes the current would slow the stop and reverse twice in a 24hr period.
Im a boat captain, I have to study tide tables. The tables are like a farmers alminac of sorts that predicts the tides movements so accurately the times are usually correct to the minute.

 

[Woe.be.gone]

Especially since it's been said (By BW I believe) that MS didn't stay over at peoples houses.

Or was it her mom who said that? Her mom said MS was a reliable person.

 

[chicken fried]

I'm not getting much done here. Gotta go. I pray all day for Mickey's safe return.

 

[JW1893]

Or was it her mom who said that? Her mom said MS was a reliable person.

BW said something along the lines of 'Mickey dosn't have boyfriends, Mickey doesn't stay over at people's houses..." in one of the first news interviews.

 

[concernedformickey]

No we don't know, speaking for myself of course. It would sure be helpful if LE would update the investigation and rule the truck/s & caddy, either in or out as VOIs and their occupants as POIs or suspects..

Due to instinct & experience, I am leaning towards the caddy, myself.

Yeah I know. That caddy looks shady. Weird too it hasn't been found, as it stands out.

 

[chicken fried]

Yeah I know. That caddy looks shady. Weird too it hasn't been found, as it stands out.

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Check the North Side (of Lafayette)

 

[concernedformickey]

Without a doubt, footage is being reviewed as we speak and a thorough investigation is being conducted. I feel as if the Chevrolet z71 has been seen more than once and that is the footage being withheld. The fact that a search of Whiskey Bay was called off gives us all we need to know from the FBI profiler's perspective.

So what does it tell us? Any ideas?

 

[chicken fried]

Before I go, one more comment about the Caddy.
No, LE has not said it's a Caddy. But it's definitely a Caddy, or (pretty unlikely, as they're rare now) a full-size Olds.

It's not my place to go beyond the released "facts" of the case, but you put any group of car buffs together, and that's an old Caddy. Even this older man at the gas station today, and his younger assistant, looked at the flyer I put up and said it definitely was a Caddy, and he had told his wife so.

It seems to me it would help to narrow the car down, instead of telling people to look for a 4-door '80s-'90s car. That's not helpful. That's why I studied the car and made the flyer more specific. If it's a Caddy or Olds, we need to be looking for a Caddy or Olds!

 

[ktgirl]

I'm just one person... anyone who can help and print flyers about the old car would be great.

I haven't had A/C in my house since a big fire in Nov. and I'm really suffering today from the heat... my medical condition is such that I don't react well to heat. Yesterday and today have been miserable - not a whiff of breeze at all. Hot as heck.

I'm going to try to put some up around Baton Rouge tomorrow.

 

[concernedformickey]

I'm not getting much done here. Gotta go. I pray all day for Mickey's safe return.

And that the creep is caught. Can't stand the idea of a creep getting away with this ****.

 

[Jbiggoose]

I believe the "caddy" is really an Oldsmobile because of the way the back lights aren't narrow and they slant up towards the trunk. That year Cadillac has narrow vertical break lights that are square to the body. They are not angled in any direction. I also believe the white truck is the perp <modsnip>

 

[Creeker]

I think she knew her abductor. Someone interested in snatching her off of the street wouldn't care about the bike. It would only slow them down. The only exception might be if the location of the bike was uncomfortably close to the workplace or home of the perpetrator. Look at how much trouble it was to dump the bike. Perhaps it was someone who lived near her home making it seem more reasonable for her to accept a ride since she would know they were having to go the same way anyway. Otherwise, having the bike is just an unecessary liability. Just a hunch, of course, but it explains why the bike would not simply be left at the scene.

 

[ktgirl]

Today is my 60th BIRTHDAY.

When I blew out the candles on my cake, I didnt make a wish........I prayed for Mickey and her family.

Happy Birthday!!!

 

[Foxfire]

In one of the interviews early on I believe CS said that she was staying with friends in Baton Rouge on Friday night.

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1205/23/ijvm.01.html

Tell us about your communications with Mickey? Did you have any text or phone calls involving Mickey in the hours before she disappeared, Charlie?

CHARLIE SCHUNICK, SISTER OF MICKEY SCHUNICK: Yes, actually I just happened to be in town for my vacation. I was taking a week coming in for a couple of graduations of my little brother. I knew she had been wanting to go to that show. She`s like, "If you`re going to be here Friday let`s go to the show."

She texted me about 11:45 and she was like, "Hey, I`m at Artmosphere. If you`re coming back, you should come and meet me. I ended up staying in Baton Rouge with some old friends who I hadn`t seen in a while. That was the last time I talked to her, so --