liz325 said:
One thing that keeps bothering me is, if the attack was planned and only directed at Sherrill, and if it was someone she knew, they would have probably known Suzie was out and would not come home until very late. So why didn't they just get Sherrill when she was home alone? They would have had time with Suzie out at graduation parties. I keep thinking maybe the attack was directed at Sherrill AND Suzie. Maybe whoever did this knew that if they took Sherrill alone, Suzie might be able to point a finger at them and they would be found out. The thought crossed my mind that maybe whoever did this was parked near the home waiting for Suzie to return. Unfortunately, Stacy was with her. I just keep thinking if Sherrill was the lone target, they would have had a perfect opportunity to get her while Suzie was partying. Certainly there would have been enough time and it would have been late enough too where they could have taken Sherrill by herself. It just doesn't make sense to me that they "happened" to get to the house soon after Stacy and Suzie got there. It just keeps sounding like it was planned out in advance and they very well could have been watching.
This makes sense to me. Certainly a possibility. Suzie would obviously be able to point to any number of suspects if Sherill were taken by herself. Certainly Suzie would have been able to identify the individuals in the photos.
It was said in the original reports that Stacy was just in the wrong place at the wrong time. That's probably true.
One final thing I want to point out and then I'm pretty much exhausted on what I recall and what I can contribute. And this goes to the van. The Dodge van was apparently among the "first generation" of modern vans that are so common today for carrying cargo, etc. The question that comes to mind is that it was seen to be as "moss green" in color yet some have suggested it could have been some other color including dark blue as the van was seen in the early hours. The daylight would have come fairly early as the longest day of the year would have been about 6/20/92 when summer came. So the breaking daylight would have been about 5 PM or sooner so in addition to street lamps it would also have been identifiable through natural light.
Let's assume that the van was indeed seen on the night of the abductions and positively identified as "moss green" as shown in the photograph. (BTW, the van was a similar vehicle that was "rescued" from the scrap yard and painted to resemble the actual reported van.)
Let me briefly digress. I am reminded of two movies, "The Day of the Jackel" and "The Jackel." In both movies the vehicles were painted to throw off the the authorities. In the original movie, the vehicle was painted over the original color. In the second movie the van was painted with a water based color that was washed off to the original color.
Here's where I am coming from. In the middle of autumn I did in fact see an identical van but it was not "moss green" but dark blue. This was reported to the police along with the license plate number. I never heard anything further. Subsequently I saw this vehicle again and saw it clearly. It was always dark blue and
never "moss green." But this was several months later and if a water based paint was placed on this van it is conceivable that it was painted green for the June abduction. While everyone was chasing a green van, the blue van just drove around and either wouldn't be noticed or it was discounted because it didn't fit the narrative of a "moss green" van.
