Hello, all. This is my first time posting to Websleuths. Please be patient with me as I am not used to posting in discussion boards. :blushing:
A little intro about myself and my interest in the AM case. I am originally from Lynchburg, VA (lived there for 18 years). I have been living in Charlottesville, VA (except for one year) since I came to college at the University of Virginia back in 1990. My family still lives in Lynchburg. I say all of this because I am VERY familiar with the areas that everyone is talking about. I use Route 29 2-3 times per month when I go visit my family. I became interested in this case on Sunday, August 4 when I received a FB notification from a friend from Lynchburg who is Alexis' cousin. I immediately started online searching to see what the media was saying, but at that time, found nothing in relation to the case. I did, however, find the Vine, FB, and Twitter accounts that have been mentioned. I told her cousin that I would be on the lookout here in Cville because I had noticed that one of her Vine vids was take at a restaurant/bar that is close to where I live here in Cville. I thought that, perhaps, she had just run off with some friends without notifying anyone. I also thought that as a fellow African American, that perhaps I would know some places where "we" frequent and would be on the look out. So, that's how I got interested in this case.
I've enjoyed reading about all of your theories; many of which I too have thought about. There is one thing that I would like to say, just to get my feet wet. I believe the location of Alexis' car in reference (distance wise) to where her uncle and grandmother live, might be misleading. Her uncle states that they live about 20 yards away from where her car is found. (
http://www.newsplex.com/home/headli...to-Her-Disappearance-Continues-218794041.html). IMO, the distance between the two is much greater. In this article, her uncle is quoted as saying that "he and Alexis' grandmother live together at Rio Hill Apartments, which he estimates to be "about 20 yards" from the location where the car Murphy was driving was located on Tuesday night." If you look at the Google maps that others have posted of the location where the car was found and the surrounding apartment complexes, it's somewhat visible. Her uncle and grandmother live at Rio Hill Apartments which, in the Google maps image have brownish roof tops. The Arden Place apartments have a more greyish roofing. If you look at the image you see that the Arden Place apartments are in between where her car was found and the apartments where her relatives live. I was a little thrown off at first with the talks of the dogs following a scent from her car to the clubhouse at Arden place and then different talks about her grandmother living in some apartments and her uncle living in some apartments. I thought her grandmother lived at Arden Place and that her uncle lived in other apartments. Knowing that Arden Place are upscale, fairly new apartments, I was interested in an older African American woman being about to afford them or wanting to live somewhere like that. when I found out that they lived at Rio Hill Apartments, it made more sense to me. IMO, it is something to think about the possibility that the scent of someone going from her car to Rio Hill Apartments could be broken or obstructed in some way at Arden Place apartments clubhouse area, say a pool in that clubhouse if someone knew someone else who had previously provided them with the access cose to utilize the facilities (a pool or workout room). This is just my opinion and my own mental musings.
