Brianna Denison 19yo Reno NV #4

[panthera]

South Reno is probably the fastest growing area around here. Just south of that industrial area (around Double Diamond) are tons of new housing/apartment complexes. I still get the feeling he lives closer to UNR though - just a hunch - but I think he's hunting close to home and dumping further away. He might work down there though.

Thanks, that helps try to figure this out. Ironically I was following Darren Mack's case too and had Googled maps of Reno for the location of his condo and the Starbucks he'd stopped at on his way to the Courthouse, and it seems not that far from this location. I'm beginning to feel like Reno is a 2nd home for me!

 

[H0NEYWEST]

Ok, so the theory is, he dumped her in the snow. Because even if the body was there one week, from seeing those photobuckets from , there are cars parked easily there.

Do cars park there for parking or driving to get to these buildings? I am still trying to understand why it took one week for anyone to notice that there was a dead woman there, and a highly profiled case at that.

I only looked at a few of 's pictures, but I think the cars you see are people coming to look at where the body was found. The industrial parks all have parking lots. There are still a lot of undeveloped areas in Reno, and many rural areas. You could dump a body within blocks of my house and I doubt it would be found unless someone happened to be out running their dog.

 

[H0NEYWEST]

Thanks, that helps try to figure this out. Ironically I was following Darren Mack's case too and had Googled maps of Reno for the location of his condo and the Starbucks he'd stopped at on his way to the Courthouse, and it seems not that far from this location. I'm beginning to feel like Reno is a 2nd home for me!

Reno is smaller than it appears (as you've probably noticed). But it seems that newbies/yuppies live in the south - the older homes/apartments are more north - but there are more jobs in the south.

ETA: I'm considered "waaay" north from Reno (I came from L.A., so I find the locals idea of distance and traffic a hoot), but I could get to where the body was found in about 20 minutes.

 

[panthera]

Reno is smaller than it appears (as you've probably noticed). But it seems that newbies/yuppies live in the south - the older homes/apartments are more north - but there are more jobs in the south.

It doesn't look that small on the map but I understand it's only 8 mi. from where Brianna was abducted to this site, which surprised me. I thought it was "moving south" from the looks of his (Mack's) condo which was quite expensive,while all the hotel/casinos seem to be in the downtown (old) area not far from the university. I really feel for LE in trying to figure this puzzle out as to who the perpetrator is, and get him before he harms someone else.

 

[LionRun]

Honey, I just have to ask. Do you have an ocelot? BTW, it is good to have another Reno resident here. Thank you for the info.

Lion

 

[H0NEYWEST]

Honey, I just have to ask. Do you have an ocelot? BTW, it is good to have another Reno resident here. Thank you for the info.

Lion

Only in my alternate universe - it's an homage to the old Honey West TV show. And yay for Reno. For years I thought I was the only person from Reno on here.

Strangely, once Mack was caught, I wasn't the least bit interested in the story.

 

[LionRun]

LOL, HoneyWest. I'm glad you are here.

Lion

 

[panthera]

The last two photos in the second batch (5216 and 5217) are, I believe, where she was. About 100 feet from Sandhill road, and the area was really trampled. Unfortunately, it was taken pointing at the ground so it's hard to tell much about what would have been visible from there.

Thank you again for going there and taking the photos. That's what I thought because that particular place did look trampled down. I'm getting a very good idea of what the area is like and how this creep probably went there at night and just dumped her in the snow, then more snow fell to cover her up until it melted.

 

[LionRun]

Yep. That means only 1 interchange. Twice a day it gets backed up and the local radio stations report the "traffic".

I grew up in LA. I know traffic. Reno has no traffic.

Too funny, !

I'm originally from NY and NJ, and we had a whole family of parking lots that were named after highways.

Lion

 

[Leila]

Thanks for the post! Front map lights crossed my mind too. I keep looking, but I swear every truck/suv is starting to look the same.

I'm afraid I can't be much help as I don't have a pickup truck, but I just checked the websites of various trucks and in particular looked at interiors to see if I could find anything that comes close to the description the police have given.

MITSUBISHI - green radio LED read out - dome light above rear view mirror - does have cloth upholstery

CHEVY - blue with some red radio LED read out - small, narrow console, no dome light

FORD - green radio LED read out - small center console

HONDA - black on gold radio LED read out

DODGE - blue radio LED read out - very narrow center console

 

[H0NEYWEST]

If you look around at some of the crime web sites, you'll find there have been a lot of unsolved disappearances in Reno over the years - but not recently enough for me to think they are connected to this one.

The one that still gets to me is Jennifer Martin. She disappeared in 1987 (and I didn't live here then), but everytime I stop by the 7-11 in Lemmon Valley I stare at the trailer park. It just gives me chills, how a kid could vanish into thin air.

 

[H0NEYWEST]

I'm afraid I can't be much help as I don't have a pickup truck, but I just checked the websites of various trucks and in particular looked at interiors to see if I could find anything that comes close to the description the police have given.

MITSUBISHI - green radio LED read out - dome light above rear view mirror - does have cloth upholstery

CHEVY - blue with some red radio LED read out - small, narrow console, no dome light

FORD - green radio LED read out - small center console

HONDA - black on gold radio LED read out

DODGE - blue radio LED read out - very narrow center console

THANK YOU!!!!!! At least that narrows it down a little bit. I think I might go used truck/suv shopping.

 

[panthera]

Don't discount the snow cover - it can hide a lot of things. In this case I feel it did.

Since you live there and know what the weather's been like first hand, do you think she was dumped there right after the abduction and been "snowed in" until a few days ago or placed there recently? Just curious!

 

[panthera]

I'm afraid I can't be much help as I don't have a pickup truck, but I just checked the websites of various trucks and in particular looked at interiors to see if I could find anything that comes close to the description the police have given.

MITSUBISHI - green radio LED read out - dome light above rear view mirror - does have cloth upholstery

CHEVY - blue with some red radio LED read out - small, narrow console, no dome light

FORD - green radio LED read out - small center console

HONDA - black on gold radio LED read out

DODGE - blue radio LED read out - very narrow center console

Thanks Leila for all your hard work! None of these seem to fit the exact description, but I'm wondering what Toyota has since it was mentioned here about a Tundra.

 

[panthera]

Yes, coming from LA as well, the local concept of what involves going "all the way across town" gives me a smile! Great people here, though, considering we're a bunch of law-breaking, paycheck-gambling, booze-swilling *advertiser censored* chasers according to some who have posted on this thread.

I've never been to Reno, but from the photos I've seen on this case and from the Darren Mack trial, it doesn't seem like a bad place at all. The mountains are beautiful!

 

[Leila]

Thanks, that helps try to figure this out. Ironically I was following Darren Mack's case too and had Googled maps of Reno for the location of his condo and the Starbucks he'd stopped at on his way to the Courthouse, and it seems not that far from this location. I'm beginning to feel like Reno is a 2nd home for me!

I hear ya! I too followed the Darren Mack case from beginning to end, starting with the Fox News special alert that there had been a shooting in downtown Reno. So, Reno has become a familiar place to me too. We've vacationed there in the past, so I have a bit of a handle on the city.

 

[H0NEYWEST]

Well, I moved to Nevada in 1995 (although I lived in Incline until 2002), so I guess that makes me a newbie. At 47 I don't think I can qualify as a yuppie any more.

I meant that it's more expensive down there, at least from what I've seen. I don't think of the perp as having a well paying job - just my hunch. I think he lives closer to downtown and was dumping in the south (away from his hunting ground).

I live in North Valley and people from work kept saying, "how can you drive that far every night?" Snicker.

Yes, coming from LA as well, the local concept of what involves going "all the way across town" gives me a smile! Great people here, though, considering we're a bunch of law-breaking, paycheck-gambling, booze-swilling *advertiser censored* chasers according to some who have posted on this thread.

I love being able to do more than one thing in a day - like go to Trader Joe's and then "all the way" to Sparks Marina - taking time out to get drunk and sell my body on 4th Street of course.

 

[panthera]

I hear ya! I too followed the Darren Mack case from beginning to end, starting with the Fox News special alert that there had been a shooting in downtown Reno. So, Reno has become a familiar place to me too. We've vacationed there in the past, so I have a bit of a handle on the city.

Yes I remember! It seems so eerie that we've just finished with that case and another one in the same city, and maybe that's what drew me to follow Brianna's abduction. I feel badly for those who live there to be the focus of the national news.

 

[H0NEYWEST]

Was that you? Sorry, I gambled away your tip.

Dang! I'm usually there on Thursdays, trying to pick-up the drunks kicked out of Fantasy Girls.

 

[panthera]

That's what it look like to me, yes.

I've been thinking she was there all along too.