Jumping off your post:
One difference between the two cases is the location. Attempting to abduct a woman on a jogging trail in a park-like area is not a very unusual crime scenario. Many women had been assaulted and/or murdered in a such situations. But grabbing a person right off the street in a heavily settled neighborhood seems very brazen and unusual.
This brings two ideas to my mind. One, maybe she wasn't abducted in those three blocks to Chelsea Park or the 1000 feet to her friend's house. Maybe she got to the friend's house late, and when she found they weren't there walked on to school by herself and was abducted in that open space she would have to cross to get to the school. Maybe she even normally goes around the back of the building to go in, on the Ketner Park side, where we can see some trails, and he came out of that area and was watching the school. (Here is where it would be really helpful to know for sure whether she was on her way to Chelsea Park or to the friend's house. Because if, as was reported previously, friends at Chelsea Park reported that she never showed up there, that would imply that the abduction really did take place in the neighborhood with all the houses and cars around.)
The other idea is that perhaps, as was suggested by Zola several threads ago, he abducted her in Chelsea Park because there are no houses overlooking that area. It would help to know what time the kids left that area to go to school. If it was relatively empty by the time she got there, it could be a place or have a spot in it that is secluded, similar to the Ketner Lake area.
Do any locals know what Chelsea Park is like, or have photos of that area?
JMO and speculation.
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