Some times its warm and some years Halloween is very cold. I think it was said to be cold that year which explains the sweater(s?) she was wearing. If it had been hot that night she would have been burning up. But then again it could have been 80 degrees that night but much colder when she left where ever she started.
I haven't heard that she was wearing different shoes. I think that was one of the ways the witnesses helped identify her. It doesn't seem that she was seen with a purse or bag at either place.
I think she had a huge argument with her parents or caregiver and left home wearing whatever she was wearing that day and wasn't prepared for various weather conditions. Either that or she was kicked out of her house for whatever reason, that would explain why she said "who cares?"
45 ends in Galveston so I was curious if she traveled up the coast. If she traveled on 35 she would have ended up in south Houston. Since she was hitchhiking she would have to find someone traveling in the general direction she wanted to go. Someone could have picked her up and said they were headed that way and could drop her off where she could get a ride north. Its a straight shot from Houston to Huntsville.
Whoever she was riding with had to have stopped for gas somewhere. It doesn't sound like she stuck around long at the Hitchin Post either. Even though it was dark and she wouldn't be able to visit the person she said she was going to see by that time. I doubt she planned to sleep on the sidewalk.
I have found a couple inmates with ties to the coast. That is about the only avenue I see at this time so I have been trying to make a list of who was there at the time and where they were from.
Or lose it all because the system or memory stick decided to quit working. Happend to me more than once lost 1,000 photos. My daughter has almost no childhood photos bc I trusted technology, was the good brands too.
It close to Corpus which is pretty big. People have probably heard of it but you would probably have to say its close to Corpus Christi for them to picture the area its in. More people would know Aransas Pass/Port Aransas than Rockport. That maybe why she said both Rockport and Aransas Pass. There are also smaller communities that no one would know unless they were very familiar with the place.
I looked at the post mortem photos.
On the other hand, papers can be lost to fire and flood but once its on the internet there will be a permanent record of it. I don't know how many times I have heard of important evidence or documents being lost or destroyed in the police records storage.
I asked a social media event page coordinator for the Rockport TX reunion of 1983 to post the Namus link and sent the FB link on their page as well.
