Thank you, Kimster... I was going to say the same thing- the lower eastern part of Southern California is mostly desert, just like in the pictures.
The desert backgrounds could be in Death Valley, Joshua Tree, 29 Palms, Palm Springs, even Barstow, and their surrounding areas.
Last one for tonight. I think these three go together, though I don't have any suggestion as to who the two women might be. The background looks very much like a place I visited in Wyoming years ago, but I can't find a picture of it anywhere.
There are a couple of women missing from that area in the right time frame. Carlene Brown and Christy Gross, both 19 at the time, went missing from a rodeo in Rawlins in 1974. Christy's body was found a few miles away almost 10 years later; Carlene has never been found. I couldn't find a picture of Christy anywhere, but I'm attaching Carlene.
She's wearing a San Diego State University shirt which can be seen more clearly in this photo (click for larger size):
http://cnnnancygrace.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/00083.jpg
I wanted to get a better side-by-side comparison. The image on the right is the only picture of Carlene Brown I could find, and believe me, I've searched around a lot.
I'd like to know if she was attending San Diego State at the time. It would also be nice to have a picture of her friend Christy Gross, who vanished with her on July 4, 1974 and whose body was found nine years later. There is almost nothing about her on the Web, not even a description.
I know the timeline is a problem, since Alcala may still have been in prison in July of '74, but the similarities in appearance are striking.
Here is the Nancy Grace link which can be enlarged:
http://cnnnancygrace.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/00661.jpg
Very good. Thank you. That makes it unlikely that this road is in Wyoming
Well, if it really is Carlene Brown, she could have been on summer vacation from SDSU and happened to be in Wyoming on July 4th.
The timeline is the problem here for an Alcala connection, but that seems to be the problem with several other cases with strong photo matches.
This photo shows a car and then a few cars in an upper parking lot. Any of you car enthusiasts know what year this car or any others might be?
I'm probably going to sound like a car geek, but here goes.This photo shows a car and then a few cars in an upper parking lot. Any of you car enthusiasts know what year this car or any others might be?
I'm probably going to sound like a car geek, but here goes.
On the blue car, the roofline is distinctive. It was only used by GM during the '65 and '66 model years. It was only used on full size 2 door models and even then, as far as I can tell, only on Chevy and Olds models. The trunk lid appears to come to a point and the tail lights look to be set into the end of the fender vertically. That eliminates the Chevys, which were straight across at the trunk and had the tail lights arranged horizontally. Looking at pictures of Olds full sizes for the 2 years, the only ones I found to have the same tail light arrangement were the 1965 Delta 88 and the 1965 Starfire. Links to pics below.
Delta 88
http://www.hurricaneimports.com/images/green-65-delta3.jpg
Starfire
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/36/76378061_68d73e90fa.jpg
The lime green car in the pic, I think, is a VW Beetle. Hard to certain with the picture so blurry. The other one has so much chopped off, I have no idea.
In one of those weird cases of synchronicity, it seems while one of our posters was commenting about Carlene Brown, the Rawlins paper finally! ran a story about that bizarre summer when four girls went missing.
Snipped.
Despite the apparent lack of coverage at the time, Banker was actually the fourth missing person in Rawlins in seven weeks.
The others were likely visitors to the area.
Carlene Brown and Christy Gross, 19, of Bowdle, S.D., were last seen at Rawlins Little Britches Rodeo on July 4, 1974. Gross remains surfaced Oct. 27, 1983, three miles north of Sinclair.
http://rawlinstimes.com/articles/2010/03/20/news/doc4ba44cdbd1dd7550062303.txt
I think this is probably the man LE suspected in '91. He is a bad un for sure.
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2194/is_n1_v63/ai_15155542/
Last one for tonight. I think these three go together, though I don't have any suggestion as to who the two women might be. The background looks very much like a place I visited in Wyoming years ago, but I can't find a picture of it anywhere.
There are a couple of women missing from that area in the right time frame. Carlene Brown and Christy Gross, both 19 at the time, went missing from a rodeo in Rawlins in 1974. Christy's body was found a few miles away almost 10 years later; Carlene has never been found. I couldn't find a picture of Christy anywhere, but I'm attaching Carlene.