So on April 15th two young women leave their house to go to the store. They don't return home. All of their essential belongings are still at home. Their roommate doesn't report them missing. After not hearing from her, one of the girl's family starts to worry and after finding out from the roommate that she and her fiance had gone to the store and didn't come home, they contacted the police department.
So after weeks of not getting any leads on these girls' location or their wellbeing, there were lots of different speculations about what happened to them. Including them being victims of a hate crime due to them being gay. Did they just run away? Why did they leave their phones behind? No bank account activity? There was no reason for them to want to leave according to everyone around them. The FBI was involved and it sadly became apparent that something sinister had happened to these women.
Fast forward to this past Monday. Local news reports an active investigation in the woods off of River Road. It later gets leaked to the press that two bodies were found at that location. Anyone familiar with River Road in southern New Hanover county over the years knows that it has been a place where finding bodies was not terribly uncommon. A few well known stories in the national media of girls going missing from bars have tragically ended with their remains being found in the woods off of River Road. This is not as common nowadays due to rapid development. But anyways, hard not to imagine the two alleged bodies being that of these women. And hard not to imagine a terrible thing happening to them at the hands of a vicious killer. We later find out that the bodies were found in a Dodge Dart. Belonging to one of the missing girls. So it became very hard not to assume that these were indeed the two women who were missing.
Rewind to April 15th. The night the two women were last seen as they left to go to the store. Just before midnight while traveling down River Road a driver witnessed a car traveling very fast and out of control going in the opposite direction when they noticed in their rearview mirror that the car had appeared to crash into the woods. This witness called 911 and reported it. Fire and rescue, EMT as well as Wilmington PD responded to the scene and determined that there had not been an accident and left.
So as it turns out, there was nothing sinister, they did not skip town and they were not victims of a hate crime. They were involved in a single car accident. We will never know if they were alive after contact, or DOA. Could they have been alive stuck in their car for hours, days and could have been saved if the officers hadn't decided to assume there was no accident because in the dark of night they didn't see evidence of one? Just a terrible thing to think about. These girls deserved better IMO. But hindsight is a bitch, as they say.
Here are the girls BTW. Very pretty.
So after weeks of not getting any leads on these girls' location or their wellbeing, there were lots of different speculations about what happened to them. Including them being victims of a hate crime due to them being gay. Did they just run away? Why did they leave their phones behind? No bank account activity? There was no reason for them to want to leave according to everyone around them. The FBI was involved and it sadly became apparent that something sinister had happened to these women.
Fast forward to this past Monday. Local news reports an active investigation in the woods off of River Road. It later gets leaked to the press that two bodies were found at that location. Anyone familiar with River Road in southern New Hanover county over the years knows that it has been a place where finding bodies was not terribly uncommon. A few well known stories in the national media of girls going missing from bars have tragically ended with their remains being found in the woods off of River Road. This is not as common nowadays due to rapid development. But anyways, hard not to imagine the two alleged bodies being that of these women. And hard not to imagine a terrible thing happening to them at the hands of a vicious killer. We later find out that the bodies were found in a Dodge Dart. Belonging to one of the missing girls. So it became very hard not to assume that these were indeed the two women who were missing.
Rewind to April 15th. The night the two women were last seen as they left to go to the store. Just before midnight while traveling down River Road a driver witnessed a car traveling very fast and out of control going in the opposite direction when they noticed in their rearview mirror that the car had appeared to crash into the woods. This witness called 911 and reported it. Fire and rescue, EMT as well as Wilmington PD responded to the scene and determined that there had not been an accident and left.
So as it turns out, there was nothing sinister, they did not skip town and they were not victims of a hate crime. They were involved in a single car accident. We will never know if they were alive after contact, or DOA. Could they have been alive stuck in their car for hours, days and could have been saved if the officers hadn't decided to assume there was no accident because in the dark of night they didn't see evidence of one? Just a terrible thing to think about. These girls deserved better IMO. But hindsight is a bitch, as they say.
Here are the girls BTW. Very pretty.
