Was Gurley's Taurus always red, or did it used to be tan? Hmmm.
From page 5 of JVK's .pdf file on the Gurley search warrant...
'he identified the vehicle that he drove as the red Ford Taurus sedan that was parked at the north end of the residence under the carport...1998 Ford Taurus sedan bearing Washington license plate...'
Then...(thanks Jules71, who brought this over from TC site which I am not familiar with):
WIM wrote:
I hope I'm posting in the right spot. I have a question for everybody. On the night Lindsey went missing, my husband was driving home from a trip and he just happened to be driving up 4th crossing Maple at about 9:30. He saw two vehicles as he stopped at the stop sign on the corner of Maple and fourth, one was going down Maple towards the store the other was parked on the opposite side of the street. The car was parked at an angle on the wrong side of the road, it's nose was almost on the sidewalk and the driver door was open.
This car was a This car was a early 90s Ford taurus kind of a tan color. The other vehicle was a van. Hubby says it was an 89 to 95 dark blue full size chevy van with a new looking blue paint job. He says he can't remember if there were windows in the way back of the van but on the side of the van there was like an imprint of a window if that makes sense to you . The strange thing about it was this van had never been seen by my husband before then and he hasn't seen it since. We did talk to the FBI about this and they seemed intersted in the car to the point they brought factory paint chips for my husband to pick out but they kind of brushed him off about the van. When the FBI was here again in march, they said they were going over everything again yet nobody contacted my husband who was driving through at that time about what he saw that night. So my question to all of you is this; Did you ever here of these two vehicles? Do you know either of these vehicles? Why was there no follow up with my husband , a potential witness, in march?
The bolded (by me) portion, is what I find intriguing...were they trying to place the red Taurus at the scene? Was it, like Jules71 (smart as a whip!) asks, always red? Given the offhand way she labels the 'car' in the above post from WIM 'tan' but details the van, I think her hubby paid much more attention to the van (and I would likely do the same, given it was a vehicle he'd not seen before AND vans seem to go hand-in-hand, to me at least, with the stereotypical 'creepy kidnapper vehicle of choice' a la every 1980s TV movie.
I wonder if Gurley is worthy of some super sleuthing, and I think yes. (My English professors are cringing at that sentence, and my abuse of both commas and parenthesis in this post!)
I really think this is hinky. Jen O, any thoughts, or Scandi? Love your posts, and Breanna (sp?) too. Thanks all.