VA VA - Kelly Catalano, 40, Chesterfield, 15 Jan 2010 - #2

[truthsleuth]

I was looking at the list that Truthsleuth created and I also looked at the postings that were made in this forum since this case began. These three things on Truthsleuth's list got me thinking.

I recall earlier posts in this forum regarding the doors issue at Kelly's home.

In one post, the person who used to live in Kelly's home stated that Kelly often left the doors unlocked when she left for work in the morning.

In another post, a neighbor says that Kelly was always careful and it wasn't like Kelly to leave her front and back doors open when she was gone.

And in another post, her family says that Kelly always left her front and back doors closed but she always entered her home through the garage door.

Now when I leave home to go to work, I always lock my doors. It doesn't matter whether or not a family member is in my home when I leave to go to work, I always lock my doors. And I believe Kelly was the same way too.

I know that we all discussed the door issue at Kelly's home and Kelly's concerns about being stalked. Also, I know that we all discussed the possibility that someone at work could have made a copy of Kelly's home keys.

But here is another possibility that I don't think we did consider in this case. And I bet this possibility make a whole lot more sense here.

I believe that it is possible that someone could have entered Kelly's home through her garage door.

I believe that someone had a remote garage door opener and knew Kelly's code on her garage door opener. That would give someone an easy entry in Kelly's home where that person rearranged things in Kelly's home and left her door locks unlocked.

I believe that most homes with garage door openers have more than one remotes. So the question is did Kelly share a spare remote garage door opener with anybody else?

Truthsleuth, thank you for creating the extensive list on Kelly's behalf. I believe we may have found a new angle on this case that we may have overlooked.

Thanks! And what a great observation about the garage door opener, nerosleuth!

Two grown-ups going off to two different jobs need two remotes. This is an item that is often overlooked when either one or both parties are moving out.

But beyond that, as you know, newer cars allow remote codes to be embedded / programmed into an on-board remote. No separate, portable remote is even necessary. Unless the code at the garage-door site is changed, that door will open by using the on-board remote from now until eternity--or at least until it wears out from overuse.

P.S. I think you're on to something.

 

[truthsleuth]

I have something stuck in my head scrap....could be nothing, granted, but it feels a little odd to me....
So if they knew she was "missing" almost immediately, my question then becomes why were these two employees preparing to go for a walk and paging her to go with them as if it was business as usual? That's a full hour and a half after the first unnamed coworker says she was immediately reported missing.
It's either that, or no one noticed she was gone from 10am clear until 11:30am when she didn't answer these two guys....and THAT is a scarey thought.

If I understand your question correctly, you want to know why her 11:30 walking partners paged her if they knew she was missing shortly after 10?

I guess part of it hinges on what is meant by "Company staff immediately reported her missing." Does this mean coworkers reported Kelly missing to management shortly after 10:00 am? What is meant by immediately here? Was she reported missing after an hour, after two hours? We don't really know precise times. She was a responsible grown-up; I'd think coworkers would give her adequate time to return to her workstation. For all anyone knew at that point, she could have been in human resources talking about her review and raise and there was absolutely no reason for panic.

And this is key, and hopefully answers your question more than anything. Please note: "Somewhere around 10 o'clock or 10:30am she left her work station and went over to a couple of the guys in the shop and said, 'hey I'm leaving. I'm going for a walk,'" said Controller Tom O'Connell. "Nobody saw her again." No where have I read that she told this to the two guys she had her 11:30 appointment with, but to "a couple of guys in the shop." It could be that the two guys she usually walked with weren't even aware that she was missing until 11:30 when she didn't respond to their page.

Who knows? But I'm sure there's someone somewhere (BPA?) who can give us some clear answers.

 

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