Hello, new to this thread. Been browsing through so sorry if this has been discussed before.
i can actually see this being an accident. No disrespect to the deceased, but she seemed to be somewhat of a party girl. She hung around a rough crowd and older men who were into drinking and drugs. Kind of strikes me as a risk taker and daredevil.
didnt someone mention there was a party spot on the beach people would go through the,orchard To get to? is it possible she was trying to make it there? Anyone know if there was a party there that night at all?
20 year olds think they're invincible.. I can see a young person driving up there and getting stuck easily. If it was very dark,perhaps she got lost, if it was slippery she could have fell and slid in the river ..not sure how far the river was from her. if her phone was dead she wouldn't have been able To call for help.
as for the phone, I'm kind of curious about if a passerby found it, decided to steal it, kept it a few days then turned it over.
or, is it possible she was headed there to meet a friend or a love interest at the camp,sites?
Hi Webby! Welcome to the thread.
The accident theory is plausible. I'm going to answer your questions as best as I can...
There's no digital footprint (that we know of) of a beach party on the orchard. A couple locals have posted conflicted opinions, some said she could have been trying to get to a known party spot but others said this was not a party spot. There hasn't been any indication there was a party according to her phone or people she hung out with.
20 year olds do think they are invincible... it's possible that she was intoxicated. It's unlikely she "slipped" into the river as it was a half a mile away from her vehicle and she would have had to trudge through thick mud. A poster here, ccmama, visited the area and posted several pictures recently. Slipping into the water right by her truck isn't possible since the water isn't that close to her truck. Also, to get help if her phone was dead then she would have walked back up on the road where she came from instead of through the mud.
The phone has been speculated about a lot. Some think a passerby did find it and decided to keep until they found out it could be that of a missing girl. We don't know.
Again, meeting up with a friend is possible but again no digital footprint that we know of... all activity on her phone stopped at 9:30 PM. There were a couple campers who I think were homeless people and they were interviewed.
Also, when she was leaving the place she was last seen alive, he said that she was heading home. Although his story and details have changed several times.
She could have had an accident but it hasn't been confirmed whether she was driving her truck or not. There is one set of footprints walking away from the truck. LE has taken a cast of the footprints but we don't if they suspect them to be hers or not.
We know what time her truck got to the leeve because of surveillance video, 10: 50 PM.