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This is a cold case. The person and detail of the case is changed so as not to divulge actual case detail, but the manner of death and the circumstance remain unchanged.

Once again, this would require member input as to what is the next step and I will tell you accordingly and let's see if we can solve this case.

The Case

On an August morning, a car was found abandoned on the side of the highway, the hazard light was on, and the car is out of gas, there were no one inside the car, and there are no one standing around waiting on a tow truck. The driver, Carla, is nowhere to be seen.

Carla, a 17 years old woman, was heading home form her boyfriend on a 5 am drive, by 7 am, her car was found abandoned on the road, but nobody seems to care or even notice that, people just thought maybe someone is stranded, and tow truck is on the way, not much else to think about, this happen often enough. But what set this different than on road distress is that, Carla, was found approximately 2 weeks later, naked and very much dead and decomposed in a secluded location inside the city, where her boyfriend lives.

The Circumstance.

Brief investigation turn up leads that started to fill the story. Carla had spend the previous night with her boyfriend Lee in town, Carla borrowed her mother's car, and her mother told her to fill up the car because it would not have enough gas to make the return trip.

Carla leaves Lee's house in about 5 am, Lee was sleeping at the moment and Carla left just as Lee's 2 friend, Jack and Rodney come to Lee's place and ask him to go fishing. Those are the people who last seen Carla alive, leaving Lee's house and driving back to her home.

At about 5;30 am, the unavoidable happens, Carla ran out of gas in the middle of the highway not far from Lee's home, next to a restaurant and the entrant of a local hospital. Carla ran her mum to pick her up, but her mum was too busy to leave her own engagement.

Then there were 5 more calls that follow, 4 to Lee's friend Jack and one is an unknown number all 5 call went unanswered with the last call near where her body was found. Then her phone went silence. And she vanished into thin air.

Person of Interest/Suspects

There are 3 person of interest in this case. All 3 were the one that last seen Carla alive.

1.) Lee - The boyfriend.

The Boyfriend was one of the last man saw her alive on that day, she was driven from her boyfriend out home, Carla claim to her mother she was with her girl friends when she left the house, but she was instead spending a night at Lee's place. His account with Carla is that he was out with her partying all night, and then get some food from a local fast-food restaurant (Which her car was found 400 meters away form this location later), then got back to his place, spend the night, smoke pot and fool around, and then both went to sleep.

Carla leave his place at 5 or 530 am when he was still asleep, she ask her for gas money and she got a couple of dollar from his wallet and she left.

2.) Jack - Lee's Workmate and Friend

Jack was at Lee's place just as Carla is leaving, Jack wanted to invite Lee for fishing, but the former is too tired to go, and Jack and his friend Rodney leave approximately the same time as Carla.

Jack and Rodney saw Carla car on the side of the road at approximately 7 am that morning, and both claim they drove to the nearest gas station and to see if Carla was there, then return to Lee's place and tell Lee about Carla's car, Lee call Carla, the call went to voice mail and subsequently all 3 went out fishing in the afternoon.

3.) Rodney - Jack's friend.

Rodney is a workmate with Lee, but was not a friend with Lee, on the other hand, he is the passenger of Jack and he saw Carla get into her own car on that morning. Rodney is a middle age man, and known to have a violent temper and when interview with the police, he seems unconcern with Carla's disappearance (Back when Carla's body is yet to discover)

He have the same story as Jack, he saw Carla's car, check the local gas station, off to see Lee afterward and all went out fishing

Timeline

about 5:00 am - Carla leaves Lee's house
about 5:30 am - Carla phone her mother telling her she is stranded by the side of the highway
between 5:53 to 6:30 - Carla make 5 calls goes unanswered.
about 7:00 am - Carla car was spotted by Lee's friend
about 9:00 am - Carla mother calls Carla, there were no answer.

What is the next step? Detective?
 
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Its possible that Carla was taken after 5:30 am and the calls were fabricated later, if both friends are involved. As Car was nearby Lee's residence its absurd to think that it took them 2 hours to find her car (5-7am) while they left at same time as Carla's.
Guessing it happened in recent times, what are the cell locations when calls were made?
If there was no sign of struggle inside car or nearby it, then Carla was familiar with the culprits.
 
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Lee's friends should be booked.

@jhungary
I have few question (since there is no details you mentioned about Police investigation)
She was raped? in any case kindly post autopsy report.
Did police interrogate Lee's friends?
Did police conduct skin DNA test means to lift finger print and DNA by touch dna?
 
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Thanks for the tag, the first thing i would do is to wait for the autopsy report to see what kind of mental condition she was in at the time of abduction. Was she raped and whether any DNA evidence was found on her? Whether the two friend's of Lee live in or around the area where her body was discovered.

Can you give some details about the place where her body was found?
 
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Sorry y'all for the lack of activities on my own thread.

Having a busy week (Have job and my medal interview today), I will start my comment on Friday.
 
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  • Autopsy report
  • Why she never called Lee? ......... and why Lee never went out looking for her? Even when his friends told him about the car ....... why he chose to go fishing instead
  • Jack and Rodney went looking for her in a filling station ....... can the staff or cctv confirm their visit?
  • Any body from the restaurant or hospital seen any suspicious activity on that day around that particular time?
  • She was found naked in a secluded place ....... most probably raped and murdered
  • She was 17 at time of death ........ what that makes Lee? Wasn't she a minor?
 
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One thing is sure ... The mom will regret for not coming to pick her daughter for her entire life.

Back to case. All three are involved in the crime. May be the elder one Rodney is the main culprit
 
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This is a cold case. The person and detail of the case is changed so as not to divulge actual case detail, but the manner of death and the circumstance remain unchanged.

Once again, this would require member input as to what is the next step and I will tell you accordingly and let's see if we can solve this case.

The Case

On an August morning, a car was found abandoned on the side of the highway, the hazard light was on, and the car is out of gas, there were no one inside the car, and there are no one standing around waiting on a tow truck. The driver, Carla, is nowhere to be seen.

Carla, a 17 years old woman, was heading home form her boyfriend on a 5 am drive, by 7 am, her car was found abandoned on the road, but nobody seems to care or even notice that, people just thought maybe someone is stranded, and tow truck is on the way, not much else to think about, this happen often enough. But what set this different than on road distress is that, Carla, was found approximately 2 weeks later, naked and very much dead and decomposed in a secluded location inside the city, where her boyfriend lives.

The Circumstance.

Brief investigation turn up leads that started to fill the story. Carla had spend the previous night with her boyfriend Lee in town, Carla borrowed her mother's car, and her mother told her to fill up the car because it would not have enough gas to make the return trip.

Carla leaves Lee's house in about 5 am, Lee was sleeping at the moment and Carla left just as Lee's 2 friend, Jack and Rodney come to Lee's place and ask him to go fishing. Those are the people who last seen Carla alive, leaving Lee's house and driving back to her home.

At about 5;30 am, the unavoidable happens, Carla ran out of gas in the middle of the highway not far from Lee's home, next to a restaurant and the entrant of a local hospital. Carla ran her mum to pick her up, but her mum was too busy to leave her own engagement.

Then there were 5 more calls that follow, 4 to Lee's friend Jack and one is an unknown number all 5 call went unanswered with the last call near where her body was found. Then her phone went silence. And she vanished into thin air.

Person of Interest/Suspects

There are 3 person of interest in this case. All 3 were the one that last seen Carla alive.

1.) Lee - The boyfriend.

The Boyfriend was one of the last man saw her alive on that day, she was driven from her boyfriend out home, Carla claim to her mother she was with her girl friends when she left the house, but she was instead spending a night at Lee's place. His account with Carla is that he was out with her partying all night, and then get some food from a local fast-food restaurant (Which her car was found 400 meters away form this location later), then got back to his place, spend the night, smoke pot and fool around, and then both went to sleep.

Carla leave his place at 5 or 530 am when he was still asleep, she ask her for gas money and she got a couple of dollar from his wallet and she left.

2.) Jack - Lee's Workmate and Friend

Jack was at Lee's place just as Carla is leaving, Jack wanted to invite Lee for fishing, but the former is too tired to go, and Jack and his friend Rodney leave approximately the same time as Carla.

Jack and Rodney saw Carla car on the side of the road at approximately 7 am that morning, and both claim they drove to the nearest gas station and to see if Carla was there, then return to Lee's place and tell Lee about Carla's car, Lee call Carla, the call went to voice mail and subsequently all 3 went out fishing in the afternoon.

3.) Rodney - Jack's friend.

Rodney is a workmate with Lee, but was not a friend with Lee, on the other hand, he is the passenger of Jack and he saw Carla get into her own car on that morning. Rodney is a middle age man, and known to have a violent temper and when interview with the police, he seems unconcern with Carla's disappearance (Back when Carla's body is yet to discover)

He have the same story as Jack, he saw Carla's car, check the local gas station, off to see Lee afterward and all went out fishing

Timeline

about 5:00 am - Carla leaves Lee's house
about 5:30 am - Carla phone her mother telling her she is stranded by the side of the highway
between 5:53 to 6:30 - Carla make 5 calls goes unanswered.
about 7:00 am - Carla car was spotted by Lee's friend
about 9:00 am - Carla mother calls Carla, there were no answer.

What is the next step? Detective?

Thanks for the tag. :-)
To me it seems like none of the mentioned suspects are likely to have committed the crime, instead it seems that the victim was kidnapped when she stepped out of the car,taken to the city and then raped and killed.

What to do:
1) trace the unknown number that she last called and find out who it velogs to and where that person was, when she was calling him/her.
2) search around the location where her remains were found and look for clues such as pieces of cloth, examine surveillance footage of that area.
3) if possible, try to scan some remains of her skin/body to look for fingerprints or dna samples etc
 
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few Questions to kick start the investigation:
1) do we have an estimated time of death? date or time?
2) What does the forensic report says about the cause of death?
3) any Trauma or Injury to the Victim?
4) What items were present on the Victim's body? she was naked without any of her accessories? phone? -- the reason i ask is if she was to move away from her car looking for help she should have wallet & phone on her.....
5) Can we try to get footage off Diner & Hospital?
6) its a highway, early hours of the day, truckers must be stopping by at the diner for breakfast or a coffee?
7) can we do any toxicology report, to see if what the Boyfriend says is true?
8) if she was drunk and high, why would he allow her to drive by herself
9) what was the condition of Lee & his Mates, worried, confused, shocked, paniced, or unmoved?
This is a cold case. The person and detail of the case is changed so as not to divulge actual case detail, but the manner of death and the circumstance remain unchanged.

Once again, this would require member input as to what is the next step and I will tell you accordingly and let's see if we can solve this case.

The Case

On an August morning, a car was found abandoned on the side of the highway, the hazard light was on, and the car is out of gas, there were no one inside the car, and there are no one standing around waiting on a tow truck. The driver, Carla, is nowhere to be seen.

Carla, a 17 years old woman, was heading home form her boyfriend on a 5 am drive, by 7 am, her car was found abandoned on the road, but nobody seems to care or even notice that, people just thought maybe someone is stranded, and tow truck is on the way, not much else to think about, this happen often enough. But what set this different than on road distress is that, Carla, was found approximately 2 weeks later, naked and very much dead and decomposed in a secluded location inside the city, where her boyfriend lives.

The Circumstance.

Brief investigation turn up leads that started to fill the story. Carla had spend the previous night with her boyfriend Lee in town, Carla borrowed her mother's car, and her mother told her to fill up the car because it would not have enough gas to make the return trip.

Carla leaves Lee's house in about 5 am, Lee was sleeping at the moment and Carla left just as Lee's 2 friend, Jack and Rodney come to Lee's place and ask him to go fishing. Those are the people who last seen Carla alive, leaving Lee's house and driving back to her home.

At about 5;30 am, the unavoidable happens, Carla ran out of gas in the middle of the highway not far from Lee's home, next to a restaurant and the entrant of a local hospital. Carla ran her mum to pick her up, but her mum was too busy to leave her own engagement.

Then there were 5 more calls that follow, 4 to Lee's friend Jack and one is an unknown number all 5 call went unanswered with the last call near where her body was found. Then her phone went silence. And she vanished into thin air.

Person of Interest/Suspects

There are 3 person of interest in this case. All 3 were the one that last seen Carla alive.

1.) Lee - The boyfriend.

The Boyfriend was one of the last man saw her alive on that day, she was driven from her boyfriend out home, Carla claim to her mother she was with her girl friends when she left the house, but she was instead spending a night at Lee's place. His account with Carla is that he was out with her partying all night, and then get some food from a local fast-food restaurant (Which her car was found 400 meters away form this location later), then got back to his place, spend the night, smoke pot and fool around, and then both went to sleep.

Carla leave his place at 5 or 530 am when he was still asleep, she ask her for gas money and she got a couple of dollar from his wallet and she left.

2.) Jack - Lee's Workmate and Friend

Jack was at Lee's place just as Carla is leaving, Jack wanted to invite Lee for fishing, but the former is too tired to go, and Jack and his friend Rodney leave approximately the same time as Carla.

Jack and Rodney saw Carla car on the side of the road at approximately 7 am that morning, and both claim they drove to the nearest gas station and to see if Carla was there, then return to Lee's place and tell Lee about Carla's car, Lee call Carla, the call went to voice mail and subsequently all 3 went out fishing in the afternoon.

3.) Rodney - Jack's friend.

Rodney is a workmate with Lee, but was not a friend with Lee, on the other hand, he is the passenger of Jack and he saw Carla get into her own car on that morning. Rodney is a middle age man, and known to have a violent temper and when interview with the police, he seems unconcern with Carla's disappearance (Back when Carla's body is yet to discover)

He have the same story as Jack, he saw Carla's car, check the local gas station, off to see Lee afterward and all went out fishing

Timeline

about 5:00 am - Carla leaves Lee's house
about 5:30 am - Carla phone her mother telling her she is stranded by the side of the highway
between 5:53 to 6:30 - Carla make 5 calls goes unanswered.
about 7:00 am - Carla car was spotted by Lee's friend
about 9:00 am - Carla mother calls Carla, there were no answer.

What is the next step? Detective?
 
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