Did they say what this guy looked like: build, weight, height, hair color, etc.?
Again unsubstantiated local belief, but dressed in Camo and of the same general discription of the now-updated perp who took Holly.
The rumor was circulating for weeks before MSM talked about "another young woman who was an intended victim before Holly".
And then there were the MSM reports of the woman in Centerville.
I still don't believe she was the one that locals were referring to before. She doesn't seem to fit the same profile as Holly, IMHO. She also had been up late at night with her, I believe, live-in boyfriend.
A perp who was a "watcher" like this one would have known that the Centerville woman either lived with her boyfriend or was rarely alone.
The reports coming in around the Jackson area, where the creep that was stalking girls at Union University was arrested after HB's abduction, were that there was a young woman who was a "ringer" for HB that was home alone and was awoken by someone on her property.
She confronted him and he said he was there to assess storm damage for an insurance claim.
There had been many bad storms in the weeks before but there was no claim filed for anything on her family's property and the insurance company had sent no appraiser.
The story went that she lived within 10 miles of Holly.
This should not be taken as fact, but it was talked about locally for weeks before the woman in Centerville came forward.
Also that there was an abandoned shack near Natchez Trace where some items belonging to HB were discovered in the days following by searchers.
Thought to be where she was kept the first night.
I tend to agree with the locals on this. But I am stubborn and don't often believe that logic is so simple as we think.
JMO:twocents:
