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Some Midtown residents frustrated by lack of progress in Piedmont Park murder investigation Velazquez believes the silence from investigators is due in part because they have not progressed far enough in the investigation to put additional information out, such as a composite. "I would have...

I think Foxfire's words will turn out to be very true. My speculation is that the attacker is very familiar with the park and has fantasized about murder for a long time. This may not have been his first time looking for a victim at PP, just the first time he was successful. I think he was...

rsbm. Rightly or wrongly, there's a lack of trust in APD for some (many) locals. Coming forward can seem risky when you don't believe you'll be treated justly. It also doesn't help when anonymous posters on local social media claim to be attorneys and say things like, "There's literally no...

Cian crossed my mind today. I was hoping to find a positive update to this thread (or any update, I guess). :( rsbm. Based on what I've learned from other cases, a stationary phone (not changing towers) pings about every 8 hours or so. It would only stop those regular pings if there was no...

Gotcha. That makes way more sense, thanks. rsbm. There's no bond listed on his jail booking, so presumably he's still in custody now. I hope so, anyway. The similarities are certainly compelling, though. And what are the odds of two violent offenders with the same MO and type of victim...

To my knowledge, nothing else has been released. I think the zigzag theory is based on the still shot of Katie and Bowie walking across the crosswalk at an angle (please correct me if I'm wrong). I don't find anything unusual in them crossing at an angle. It was probably simply more...

That's an interesting angle to consider. It makes me wonder where Bowie and/or Katie were at 12:46am if not already in their eventual locations. My assumption has been that they were killed within less than a minute of encountering the attacker, but as you said earlier, @TL4S, we don't have...

Which (imo) points to a perp who is abnormal, someone who was at the park for the express purpose of murder. I don't think it was a snap decision, or that it was prompted by Bowie growling or lunging. I could see, as someone posted earlier, the killer lashing out after making a sexual advance...

Yeah, it seems unlikely to me Katie would have let him off-leash, especially in the dark. In the crosswalk pic, you can see how close he is to her -- either it's a short lead, or she shortened it herself temporarily (looping around her hand). She doesn't strike me as someone to take risks with...

rsbm. Bowie looks gray with a white chest and belly, and I think it's possible the attacker didn't notice him at first, especially if he was hyper-focused on Katie. I have a border collie with a similar color pattern (dark on top with white belly and legs), and he can be difficult to see in...

I understand the stalker theory, but it honestly doesn't make sense to me. The park is known for after-dark criminal activity. I think Katie simply happened to cross the path of a psychopathic criminal who was simply looking to kill, and if it had not been her and Bowie, it would have been...

By a weird coincidence, I watched a travelogue on Prime two weeks ago that included this trail. It's now unavailable through Prime, but can be viewed on Youtube. The Taggart Lake-Bradley Lake segment is about 10 minutes, and gives a good idea of the terrain (though I'll point out it was filmed...

For now at least, authorities don't seem think so. Park still asking for tips in missing hiker case

I wondered the same thing. None of the articles I've read mention his identity. The police only ever identified the stepfather as a suspect, so presumably they knew who the baby's father was and ruled him out, but that hasn't been explicitly stated in anything I've read. I reported my own...

RSBM. Thank you for finding these, I wouldn't have seen them otherwise because the AJC website drives me nuts. The murder-suicide is barely a mile from where my best friend lived when we were growing up. Not a great area then, and it seems like it's only gotten worse. Thank God the scum that...

From a longtime fence-sitter, I would suggest that it is perhaps not always thinking positively of people, but simply seeing the evidence as supporting more than one scenario and not being able to conclude that there is only one possibility. Speaking only for myself, I agree that the facts we...

$10,000 reward to find pregnant teen's killer Markisha lived in Decatur (intown suburb), but her body was found in northwest Atlanta, 19 miles from her house, shortly before 1:00pm on May 31, 1995. I don't know how to cite articles accessed through ProQuest since they can't be linked, but...

sbm. I agree, which is why I said I wasn't discounting your point. My question was meant more as brainstorming, trying to work a theory backwards to the solution. Based on the confirmed evidence that LE has shared, I honestly don't know if it was a stranger or someone known, so I suppose I'm...

sbm. I don't discount your point, but those cases, excluding Delphi and Evansdale, were in much more populous locations. My assumption is that the odds of a stranger abduction markedly decrease in a town of 1,500, though being in proximity to I-80 is something to consider. Working from the...