I cant speak for NS, but I know many years ago when I worked at a convenience store, the Ypsilanti cops would routinely check by on me when I worked 2nd or 3rd shifts. ( they also came in and read the playboy magazines and drank the coffee but it was worth it to have people know they came by...) There are also going to be your regulars who will notice something is amiss... such as the man who called 911. I wonder tho if anyone tried to pump gas a bit earlier... did not get any response when they tried and just left in frustration rather than going in side and checking? ( if I were in a hurry I think my response would have been to just say To Hell With It! ... assuming the clerk was just busy doing something else, taking out trash... what ever... and not even going inside to check... I guess if someone HAD done so, they would have contacted the police after the news got out... Does anyone know if the clerk has to acitvate something if you pay at the pump, or if it just does it on its own with no human intervention?
So another thought on our witness... she sees a car cut the headlights and the back lights at the store are off.. and goes to see what is going on... ( I think we can all agree on that.. right?) She pulls up at the guitar store, and watches... and sees what she says she sees... including the perp driving right past her... but if she were there watching.. she must have turned her OWN lights off... or she would have been seen. So if she was curious or concerned.. why did she turn her own lights OFF??? Unless SHE did not want to be SEEN. If I were concerned and thought "lets go make sure things are OK.." my instinct would NOT be to turn off MY lights... To me that speaks to her being there on purpose to watch SOMETHING go down... 'so we will just hide back here and watch.."... she MUST have had her lights off or the perp would never ever have driven past a car with its lights on if he had just abducted someone...( but of course I think her whole account is bogus... but I wonder how she would explain that...)