Just to give some perspective about 1991 and this case.
Using a pay phone to make a call in town wouldn't have been that usually.
I remember reading about this case on the UM forums a while ago and someone mentioning that Angela didn't have a phone at her parents house to call from.
Angela and her boyfriend weren't living together at the time.
She was out with a girlfriend while he was babysitting his brother at his home - or more accurately his parents house.
At 4 months pregnant, I can see making plans to meet up later, but then feeling extremely tired - from the pregnancy- and Angela calling to say she wanted to go home to sleep. Going over to her boyfriends house might have meant staying instead of getting to sleep.
And if she didn't have a phone at home, with cell phones not available, a pay phone by the local grocery store would be the only option.
As a teen myself in 1991, this scenario is very plausible. And very scary. I've made a few late night calls at pay phones in the late eighties/early nineties and consider myself lucky now - in hind sight.
I do believe the events took place as the boyfriend lays out. From the other forum, it sounded like he was eventually able to marry and move on with his life.
With the more recent discovery of Wendy Camp, her daughter and sister in law and the jailing of their truly evil murderer, Angela Hammond - along with the Harkins/Cooper/Robertson/Riemer murders - are the next haunting UM cases that I hope can still find closure after all this time.
I find these cases more frightening and memorable because of their randomness, crossing paths with a deeply disturbed stranger at exactly the wrong time.
Using a pay phone to make a call in town wouldn't have been that usually.
I remember reading about this case on the UM forums a while ago and someone mentioning that Angela didn't have a phone at her parents house to call from.
Angela and her boyfriend weren't living together at the time.
She was out with a girlfriend while he was babysitting his brother at his home - or more accurately his parents house.
At 4 months pregnant, I can see making plans to meet up later, but then feeling extremely tired - from the pregnancy- and Angela calling to say she wanted to go home to sleep. Going over to her boyfriends house might have meant staying instead of getting to sleep.
And if she didn't have a phone at home, with cell phones not available, a pay phone by the local grocery store would be the only option.
As a teen myself in 1991, this scenario is very plausible. And very scary. I've made a few late night calls at pay phones in the late eighties/early nineties and consider myself lucky now - in hind sight.
I do believe the events took place as the boyfriend lays out. From the other forum, it sounded like he was eventually able to marry and move on with his life.
With the more recent discovery of Wendy Camp, her daughter and sister in law and the jailing of their truly evil murderer, Angela Hammond - along with the Harkins/Cooper/Robertson/Riemer murders - are the next haunting UM cases that I hope can still find closure after all this time.
I find these cases more frightening and memorable because of their randomness, crossing paths with a deeply disturbed stranger at exactly the wrong time.
