Kidnappings in themselves aren’t monumentally rare. But strange crimes like this always interest me.
For one, it doesn’t appear this girl was “abducted.” Surveillance footage from her apartment complex recorded her, walking alone, without a jacket (in I’m guessing the very cold Wisconsin weather) and after that no one else sees her until right now.
That information alone doesn’t really convey how strange it was. It could have been she was just going outside briefly, but she left her front door wide open. It just seems very bizarre someone walks out of an apartment building, leaves the door wide open, has no jacket, and also carried no purse.
The surveillance camera recorded her leaving the building, so she wasn’t just going down to check her mail or down to the laundry room.
And of course the icing on the cake is, she was assaulted roughly a month earlier by a mysterious man she never saw. After being knocked unconscious she was moved approximately one block, but was not robbed or sexually assaulted in any way.
Sounds like a stalker to me. Don’t know why they didn’t just cart her off when they had the chance weeks ago. Interrupted maybe, or lost their nerve? Maybe they are just that sadistic, and are “toying” with her to show that she has no control over what happens to her? I hope they find the person soon, and that she gets into counseling, and gets help to deal with it.
It wasn’t that cold in Wisconsin on that day. We’re only a little ways southeast of Madison, here in the Chicago area, and the temperature reached the low 70s. Not having a coat would be common. I lived in that area in Madison when I went to college there, and it was a decent neighborhood, fairly residential and quiet (except on football game days as it was next to Camp Randall). My husband lived in that apartment building, and it wasn’t completely uncommon then for him or his frfiends to leave their doors unlocked if they weren’t stepping out for long. When I lived in the area, there was a convenience store right across the street; perhaps she’d just run out with some cash to grab something.
I agree that the situation sounds kind of strange, but then again, it could be nothing at all.
I had an apartment across the street from where she lived, and some of my college roommates used to live there. It’s a private residence hall, so it’s more like a dorm than your standard apartment. While I can’t speak for this young woman, I don’t find her behavior too odd. My roommates used to hang out with the people across the hall from them, so maybe the door open wasn’t such a big deal. The convenience store is still there, and I know I used to make plenty of late-night trips to break up all-nighters.
I find it exceptionally odd that she wasn’t sexually assaulted in anyway. Now that sounds a bit morbid but sadly enough most young females who are abducted almost always are sexually assaulted (and more often than not then murdered.)
The whole story is bizarre, I know it’s awful to say something like this, but we don’t actually have any evidence of there being an assailant. I wonder if she has one of those mental disorders that would cause her to fake something like this.