Well, I thought she might have been found before all the snow fell. Like, within a half hour or so. But clearly, I've underestimated her stamina and speed.
Or maybe she didn’t go very far at all.
I really hope that the facility grounds have been searched very thoroughly.
IIRC, the passenger of the person who saw Serenity near the cattle guard was the only one to see her headed north on S Rockerville.
What if Serenity turned around without being noticed? Everyone is scrambling. It was probably a very chaotic scene.
I’m particularly worried that maybe she decided to wait inside one of the outbuildings on the facility property, thinking that one of the staff would find her. Then, perhaps as the temperature started to drop shortly thereafter, she succumbed to hypothermia.
Whether indoors or outdoors, bodies can be missed fairly easily, IMO:
“[SBM]
Purdue spokesperson Jeanne Norberg said Tuesday (March 20) that [Wade] Steffey, who hadn't been seen since Jan. 13, was electrocuted. His body was found around noon Monday (
March 19) in a high-voltage utility room in Owen Hall by a university physical facilities employee who was called to check on a noise coming from the locked room.
‘Wade apparently gained access, and, in trying to find his way around the room, was accidentally electrocuted,’ Deputy Coroner Martin Avolt said.
[SBM]
Norberg said the utility room, roughly the size of a one-car garage, houses three electrical transformers connected by high-voltage wires. Steffey's body was found behind one of the transformers, she said. The utility room has both an interior and exterior door.
When the utility worker was called to check the room on Monday (March 19), she entered using the interior door, which had been locked. During the course of their investigation,
police found the outside door was unlocked. Police removed the lock to determine if it had been tampered with or faulty and padlocked the door for safety.
[SBM]
The room is
about 50 yards from the northwest corner of Owen Hall, where Steffey was reportedly seen at around 12:30 a.m. on
Jan.
13. Investigators said he had left his coat with a friend who lives at the residence hall. At about the same time, he placed two cell phone calls to friends in Owen Hall, a short walk away from his room in Cary Quadrangle. Earlier on the evening of Jan. 12 Steffey attended a party in the Tower Drive area.
[SBM]
Norberg said an earlier campus search for Steffey included the Owen Hall complex.
She said residence hall employees did not have keys to the room, which was normally locked as it was on the day of the search.
It is believed that physical facilities employees subsequently checked the room but did not see Steffey's body behind the transformer, Norberg said.
[SBM]” (BBM)
Body identified as missing Purdue student Wade Steffey