From the program "Disappeared" it looks like a suicide.
She would have had to be in a really bad state. I think forced prostitution rings target people who are living illegally in a foreign country, severely addicted to drugs, have no support from stable friends and family, or are fugitives from the law. There has to be some element where the victims are desperate and have no one to turn to but the criminals. I don't think they snatch reasonably stable people from their home city.sex trafficing is heavy in the area, according to her mom. still hopes to find her in a drug,prostitution ring.
I watch the disappeared all the time, very interesting.
Thanks, I wrote that. Not sure why they didn't cover it in the show... but that detail has always bothered me, about her picking up the box of clothes from her BF roommate. There is more but it is all mostly speculation on my part...Going way back to page 4 where this was mentioned:
respectfully snipped from:
http://www.websleuths.com/forums/sh...Escambia-Co-12-Aug-2013&p=9790620#post9790620
There was no mentioned of this in the show.
Her Couchsurfing page makes her very vulnerable, no? Sadly seems too trusting.
https://www.couchsurfing.org/profile...anking_hosts=5
the link no longer works, can you search profiles?
She would have had to be in a really bad state. I think forced prostitution rings target people who are living illegally in a foreign country, severely addicted to drugs, have no support from stable friends and family, or are fugitives from the law. There has to be some element where the victims are desperate and have no one to turn to but the criminals. I don't think they snatch reasonably stable people from their home city.
I know weirdos kidnap people and on rare occasion manage to hold them for long periods of time, but that's different from a trafficking ring.
I only listened to the Disappeared show; didn't get to watch it closely, but it seemed like at the end they really carried on about the trafficking thing, as if the friends and family interviewed were trying to convince themselves of something implausible. It would only be plausible, IMHO, if turns out she had a serious addiction, was estranged from most of her family, and sometimes hung out with serious criminals.
Followed this sad case from the beginning... foul play is highest on my list; but suicide possible...
Googling "notes left in suicides" - only 25 to 30 percent leave notes... Most of the cases I followed - no note; and the act seemed somewhat spontaneous ( where a person may have been thinking about it for sometime and then suddenly acts)... As for making it easy to find her body - surprisingly, from my limited experience, I haven't seen that.
But, having said all this, I have no idea if that the case here, and foul-play remains most likely from all that's been mentioned...