I apologize in advance for the very long post. I have taken a couple of days and went through the video's, articles and press conference's and put together the following document. It looks much better in Word format!
It is a work in progress and if anyone feels it is useful then I will continue to add facts as I come across them. Apologize if it is useless.
There are no personal opinions here...completely unbiased....only facts found through research. I plan to elaborate on the bike being found in more detail as well as add the map and some of the original pics but too tired tonight.
If you see it here then the statement can be found within the links posted at the end. The CNN video's at the end show some of the surveillance pics in much better clarity.
JUST THE FACTS
MISSING: MICKEY SHUNICK (5/22/90)
When: May 19th, 2012, approximately 2:00am
Where: Lafayette, LA – Saint Streets Area
Reported Missing: May 19th, 2012 – Approx. 6:00pm
Reward: Reward has been capped at $25,000
Mickey is 5’ 1”, approximately 115 lbs. She has shoulder length light blond curly hair and blue eyes. She was last seen wearing a bright pastel, multi-colored shirt, grey acid washed skinny jeans and silver ankle boots. She has a small tattoo of a bicycle on her right outer ankle and a nose ring on her left nostril. She was last seen riding a black and gold Schwinn Cutter bicycle with glittery gold hand grips. She was carrying a small pink container of pepper spray in her front pocket. She was also carrying a light brown leather backpack/purse, a yellow Vera Bradley wallet and a black Verizon slider cell phone.
Mickey was heading towards her home on Governor Miro Drive which is 4 miles from her last known location, friend, Brettly Wilson’s home. She never arrived. Her family reported her to local law enforcement as a missing person at approximately 6:00pm, Saturday, May 19th.
Local Lafayette law enforcement, FBI, Homeland Security and the US Marshal’s service have been involved in the investigation.
This is what we know:
Mickey rode her bicycle to meet nine friends for a concert at Artmosphere Hookah Lounge and Bar on Johnson Street the evening of Friday,May 18th. At 10:15pm Mickey suggested going to Mel’s Diner but her friends didn’t want to leave. At 12:45am Mickey and Brettly left Artmosphere and bicycled to Brettly’s home on Ryan Street. Brettly then drove Mickey through the Taco Bell drive-thru and returned back to Brettly’s home to eat.
At 1:30am Mickey’s friend Ashley called Mickey on her cell. This is reportedly the last time her cell was used. Mickey left Brettly’s house at 1:45am. His last sighting of her was that of Mickey closing the door behind her as she left his home. (**There was an article in the Advertiser that reported Brettly last saw her in his driveway but I don’t see where that can be confirmed by him.)
Surveillance cameras show Mickey on Verseilles Blvd. heading towards St. John Street at 1:47am. Police believe she then traveled onto St. John Street and crossed over University Avenue, continuing West on St. Landry Street.
She was spotted again on St. Landry Street (Circle K) at 1:48am. A pickup truck identified as a white Chevy Z71 was seen in the same spot on St. Landry Street at 1:49am. This is the last confirmed and reported sighting of Mickey.
At 1:51am a white four door pickup truck was seen traveling in the opposite direction of Mickey on St. Landry Street in front of the Circle K. It is unclear if this is the same truck cameras caught at 1:49 on St. Landry Street or another vehicle of possible interest.
Vehicles of Interest:
In initial police statements it was stated as:
In both videos, a white, four door pickup truck is captured on video after Mickey traveled those streets. The surveillance video comes from Lafayette Consolidated Government and is taken in front of the Circle K on St. Landry.
Police said it took a long time to go through all the surveillance video collected, and much of it had to be watched in real time. Police said they saw the footage Thursday and then had to get it enhanced in order to positively identify Mickey.
Images of missing Louisiana student Mickey Shunick caught on surveillance tape the night of her disappearance have prompted police to wonder whether three vehicles seen in the tape might be involved.
Via Nancy Grace Blog:
Mouton told HLN the vehicles of interest include:
• A white, four-door truck that was travelling in the same direction
• A white, four-door Chevrolet Z71, also headed in the same direction
• A 80’s or 90’s GM model vehicle with rear right body work, travelling in the same direction
• A white truck with a bed cover that was travelling in the opposite direction about three minutes after Mickey passed through the area
Authorities have not determined whether two of those images show the same vehicle.
The current vehicle of interest is a newer model white Chevy Z71, 4 door pickup truck seen on St. Landry Street heading in the same direction of Mickey. It is unclear if the white four door pickup truck seen going in the opposite direction of Mickey is the same vehicle and/or is still a vehicle of interest.
Video surveillance captured images of an 80’s-90’s Oldsmobile with bondo on the passenger side rear quarter panel and a white GMC or Chevy pickup truck with a bed cover on University after Mickey traveled on these streets. Both have been identified by police and cleared.
Bicycle Found:
On May 27th Lafayette Police are confirming that Mickey Shunick’s bike has been found beneath the Whiskey Bay I-10 Bridge at Exit #127, 27 miles from her estimated area of disappearance. Some local fisherman located the bike and notified police through the tips line. The entire area and the river are being searched for clues and evidence.
Fishermen found the black Schwinn bicycle on Sunday in the Atchafalaya River, near the bank under a highway interchange in a swampy area of Iberville Parish, La. Cpl. Paul Mouton said only a bit of the frame was out of the water when the men discovered it.
Police also gathered other "items of interest" at the location where the bike was found, but did not elaborate, KATC.com reported.
Speaking at a press briefing, though, Corporal Paul Mouton was quick to point out that such assumptions are premature:
“The one thing that we don’t want to jump to conclusions and the thing we didn’t want to release the damage to the bike initially is because the first initial assumption would be that it was struck by a vehicle. We do not know that for a hundred percent that that’s where that damage came from.”
Mouton said that the tire, which had a bent rim with the tire “dislodged from the rim itself”, was the only visible damage to the bike.
“Our belief currently is that the bike was dumped beneath the bridge and was not thrown from the bridge,” Mouton said.
http://edition.cnn.com/video/#/vide...ssing-shunick-bike-found.hln?iref=videosearch
http://kpel965.com/mickey-shunick-p...bike-vehicles-of-interest-still-being-sought/
In regards to carnival workers via Jane Velez-Mitchell:
JON LEIBERMAN, INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER: Well, police are very concerned that the fact -- the fact is that this area is very close to I-10 which as you know is a main thoroughfare that runs all the way out to California. That`s one thing.
The second thing is look, police know this young lady did not just vanish. So they are right now, they`re back canvassing at that bar. They`re at red light camera video. They`re gathering all the surveillance video that they can and they are essentially also looking at employment records from the people who were supposed to work at that carnival, the Cajun Heartland State Fair.
We understand police are looking at the employment records and any criminal history of anybody associated with that event, just as one more avenue that they`re exploring to help find this young lady.
Tasha Patterson’s detailed account of her run-in with the white GMC via Nancy Grace:
Joining me right now is another special guest. This is Joy Patterson. Her daughter was approached by this white male in a white vehicle very similar to that vehicle seen in the Mickey surveillance video.
Ms. Patterson, thank you for being with us. What does your daughter say happened?
JOY PATTERSON, DAUGHTER RODE IN SUSPECT VEHICLE (via telephone): Well, my daughter was going home from a doctor`s appointment at 2:00 o`clock in the afternoon on South College Drive (ph), and the man gave her a ride to Walgreen`s six blocks -- about six blocks down the street.
And during the ride, the man -- she told the man that she was looking for work (INAUDIBLE) When she`s about to exit the vehicle, he tells her (INAUDIBLE) having sex with him for $80. During the course of the ride, he also told her that he likes to go driving around Lafayette, looking for pretty young girls to pick up.
PATTERSON: It was a white GMC Sierra 2500 series, Texas (ph) edition (ph). It was a white truck with a black cover on the bed. And she said that this man appeared to be in his 50s or 60s.
GRACE: Did the vehicle have tinted windows, or does she recall, Ms. Patterson?
PATTERSON: Yes, it had tinted windows.
GRACE: Did?
PATTERSON: Yes, ma`am.
GRACE: OK. Could you give me your best description of the male?
PATTERSON: Like I said, he was an older male in his 50s or 60s. He did happen to mention that he was retired.
GRACE: Did he have any facial hair?
PATTERSON: Did he have any facial hair? No, no facial hair. Gray hair and balding --
GRACE: And I believe he was heavyset?
PATTERSON: Yes. And he said he was retired.
GRACE: Was there anything else about the vehicle that she could remember? For instance, was there a gun rack? Was there a decal on it? Was it a -- did it have a back seat cab where somebody could also sit in the back?
PATTERSON: No, no. He did not have a gun rack. There`s nothing else, no details or anything else that she could remember about the vehicle. But there was a lot of chrome, she said, a lot of chrome on the vehicle.
GRACE: Was it a four-door truck?
PATTERSON: Yes, it was a four-door vehicle, an extended cab.
GRACE: Did she get a license plate?
PATTERSON: No, she did not. And I know that because --
(CROSSTALK)
PATTERSON: I`m sorry, that was my grandson. I know that because when it happened, she called me immediately after it happened, and I asked her about a license plate number and she did not get his license plate. She was very shooken up when it happened.
Miscellaneous Facts about Mickey:
• She had plans to travel to New Orleans on Monday, May 21st, to celebrate her birthday with her sister.
• Mickey is a Senior Anthropology major at University of Louisiana at Lafayette (ULL).
• She has 16 pets.
• “She rides her bike everywhere. She is so fast, strong; an excellent biker. She was training for Bike Across America next summer,” Josh Coen said.
Important Transcripts and Videos:
CNN – Jane Velez-Mitchell – 5/22/2012
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1205/22/ijvm.01.html
CNN – Jane Velez-Mitchell – 5/22/2012
http://edition.cnn.com/video/#/vide...vm-missing-college-student.hln?iref=allsearch
CNN – Jane Velez-Mitchell – 5/22/2012
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/crime/2012/05/22/jvm-rowe-family-appeal-for-missing-daughter.cnn
CNN – Jane Velez-Mitchell – 5/23/2012
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1205/23/ijvm.01.html
CNN – Jane Velez-Mitchell – 5/23/2012 (snip from an earlier video aired again I think)
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/bestoftv/2012/05/23/exp-jvm-mickey-shunick.hln
CNN – Nancy Grace – 5/24/2012
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/crime/2012/05/24/exp-ng-missing-coed-mickey-shunick.hln
CNN – Nancy Grace – 5/28/2012
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1205/28/ng.01.html
CNN – Jane Velez-Mitchell – 5/29/2012
http://edition.cnn.com/video/#/vide...ssing-shunick-bike-found.hln?iref=videosearch
CNN - Jane Velez-Mitchell – 5/29/2012
http://edition.cnn.com/video/#/video/bestoftv/2012/05/29/exp-jvm-mickey-shunick.hln?iref=videosearch
CNN – Jane Velez-Mitchell – 5/30/2012
http://edition.cnn.com/video/#/vide...jvm-mickey-shunick-truck.hln?iref=videosearch
***The pics of the trucks are much clearer in this JVM video than in released stills, particularly the truck with the bed cover!!
CNN – Jane Velez-Mitchell – 6/6/2012
http://edition.cnn.com/video/#/vide...exp-jvm-lousiana-shunick.hln?iref=videosearch
KPEL Press Conference in Regards to the Missing Bike
http://kpel965.com/mickey-shunick-p...bike-vehicles-of-interest-still-being-sought/
Links Used to Verify Facts:
http://www.theadvertiser.com/article/20120624/NEWS01/206240334/Still-no-answers-Shunick-case?odyssey=nav%7Chead
http://www.katc.com/news/community-rallies-together-to-search-for-mickey-shunick/
http://www.nbc33tv.com/news/local-n...-it-home-community-search-party-seeks-answers
http://nancygrace.blogs.cnn.com/2012/05/23/college-student-22-vanishes-while-riding-bike/?hpt=ng_mid
http://www.hlntv.com/video/2012/05/23/where-mickey-shunick
http://www.theadvertiser.com/articl...es-missing-woman-s-neighborhood-friendly-safe
http://gma.yahoo.com/mickey-shunick...e-missing-083453291--abc-news-topstories.html
http://www.wafb.com/story/18617502/find-mickey-now-the-search-continues
http://www.amw.com/missing_persons/case.cfm?id=80100
http://www.theadvertiser.com/articl...KING-NEWS-Shunick-captured-video-truck-sought
http://www.katc.com/full-coverage/searching-for-mickey-shunick/
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlin...-police-seek-driver-looking-to-pick-up-women/
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/mickey-shunick-search-continues-missing-students-bike-found-16442567
http://www.theadvertiser.com/article/20120527/NEWS01/120527003/POLICE-CONFIRM-MICKEY-S-BIKE-FOUND?odyssey=mod|breaking|text|FRONTPAGE
http://www.klfy.com/story/18570540/missing-mickey-shunick
http://theadvocate.com/home/2944447-125/shunick-bicycle-found
http://www.theadvertiser.com/articl...sey=tab|topnews|text|FRONTPAGE&nclick_check=1
http://www.lafayettela.gov/Police/Press_Releases.asp?PR_Id=4677
http://www.galesburg.com/newsnow/x1832957230/Monmouth-native-s-daughter-missing
http://www.hlntv.com/video/2012/05/30/shunick-pi-jvm
http://www.shreveporttimes.com/arti...ed-out-Shunick-investigation?odyssey=nav|head
http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/justi...ng-louisiana-student-case/?playlist_id=163972
http://www.theadvertiser.com/articl...earch-Texas-Equusearch-returns?nclick_check=1
http://www.examiner.com/article/pri...shunick-case-says-he-has-suspect?CID=obinsite
http://www.theadvertiser.com/section/news08
http://www.theadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2012206140305
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http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/05/3...t-mickey-shunick-found-damaged/#ixzz1yp8XfQDR
http://www.hlntv.com/article/2012/05/29/missing-co-eds-bike-found?iref=storysearch
