I’m also a female runner who has heard way too many horrible stories. I’m a nurse and work 12 hour shifts so most of my runs have to be done in the dark in the winter. I am always out the door by 4 am. My doubles are usually done at 9 pm but always on a treadmill even in the summer. I log 100+ mpw on the same loop that’s a little under a mile around my house. Yes, that definitely makes me seem insane, but it is also where I feel the safest. I live in a relatively safe town where wildlife is really the only thing most people worry about, but if I’ve learned anything from these stories, it’s always better to not take your chances. I wear one of those safety bracelets, too. If anything feels the slightest bit off, I bag the run and add more on the treadmill at night.
When I was in high school, it was so easy to take safe running for granted. It was never something I considered when walking out the door. Then I went to college in a city that has quite a bit of crime. We always ran in groups, everyone had to bring their phone… we still had people follow us and stop their cars for inappropriate reasons that I won’t get into. That changed my perspective. It’s so sad that this is something everyone (not just females) needs to think about now. This is such a horrible story, and I’m thinking of Eliza and her family and friends and praying for the best outcome. I just hope her story leads to others thinking more about their running routes, schedules, running partners, and the safety measures they take next time they head out the door.
Gonna call BS on this one. 100+ miles a week, sleeping 5-6 hours a night, and working 12 hour shifts as a nurse on your feet all day? Get lost. I work as a nurse too and I know what that entails in and of itself, and layering that volume of training with that little rest doesn’t happen.
I forget his name but there was a guy who finished the Olympic trials in the marathon in a very high spot (top 3 I think) and he at the time was doing a medical residency - or maybe finishing up medical school. Can't remember.
Why is it that the good people are always screwed by the bad people? That pic of her is showing such a glowing, smiling lady and the one of him is showing a evil, very bad person. And of course he gets away with it. He spent 20 years in prison and could have learned a craft. Instead he gets out and goes right back to kidnapping and murder. What a terrible human being. Hope he gets a broken broom shoved up his abdomen in prison.
News outlets commonly pick pics that fit the story. It would be rather strange for them to have used a kind and smiling pic for him and a fierce looking one for her. If we were shown the same pic of his without the backstory, there would be nothing evil to infer just based on his looks.
Gonna call BS on this one. 100+ miles a week, sleeping 5-6 hours a night, and working 12 hour shifts as a nurse on your feet all day? Get lost. I work as a nurse too and I know what that entails in and of itself, and layering that volume of training with that little rest doesn’t happen.
I forget his name but there was a guy who finished the Olympic trials in the marathon in a very high spot (top 3 I think) and he at the time was doing a medical residency - or maybe finishing up medical school. Can't remember.
After reading the updates, I'm in shock by the man. He spends 20 years in prison for this, makes another attempt a year later, and was so careless with it.
He wore the same slides he casually wears, he left them and her cellphone around the scene later to be found, took his cellphone which was backtracked by police at the time of the abduction, and then left the car he adducted her in at his known address and left it there all morning. Then frantically cleans out his car and washes his clothes at his address with a witness. You'd expect this from a rookie.
I think only time will tell with a deeper look into security footage around the area trying to track the vehicle. This and the fact that he did this at 16 makes me think it was a cheap, contract job which is really sad. I'm pulling for her.
Wait, why do you think this is a contract job? Because he didn’t execute it with careful planning and attention to detail? Because he abducted someone at 16? Makes no sense to me.
”You’d expect this from a rookie.” And what is he? He’s a man who as far as we know committed one somewhat dissimilar abduction 20+ years ago and was caught for it. He’s presumably a sociopath who can’t be fixed, but there’s no reason to think of him as a practiced, calculated criminal. There’s no reason to think he would carry out such a heinous crime intelligently.
I suspect he noticed the victim running the same route at the same time x number of times before. Being a man with zero conscience or sense of morality, he decided he was going to abduct and rape her. Whether he planned to kill her or not I couldn’t guess. I’m not sure he had even that level of planning, let alone covering all the bases to avoid being caught in the year 2022.
Wait, why do you think this is a contract job? Because he didn’t execute it with careful planning and attention to detail? Because he abducted someone at 16? Makes no sense to me.
”You’d expect this from a rookie.” And what is he? He’s a man who as far as we know committed one somewhat dissimilar abduction 20+ years ago and was caught for it. He’s presumably a sociopath who can’t be fixed, but there’s no reason to think of him as a practiced, calculated criminal. There’s no reason to think he would carry out such a heinous crime intelligently.
I suspect he noticed the victim running the same route at the same time x number of times before. Being a man with zero conscience or sense of morality, he decided he was going to abduct and rape her. Whether he planned to kill her or not I couldn’t guess. I’m not sure he had even that level of planning, let alone covering all the bases to avoid being caught in the year 2022.
Criminals are not the sharpest tools in the shed.
I highly doubt this guy can even read and write
He spent 20 years in prison and can't read or write? How much are we spending on him annually - $80,000 and he hasn't learned to read or write?
Gut wrenching, just so sad to now know what that poor young lady went through. A sad piece of garbage takes a life and doesn't care in the least about her or how it well affect all of those who know her. I say know her because I truly pray she's still alive.
Those of you quick to disagree with Rojo should really think it through. In cases like this, where it is absolutely 100 percent for sure that this person did something to her, they should have "ways" of making him talk, and he would, on where she is. It's always possible that the person is still alive but dying and could be saved.
I know most of you will disagree with that type of thinking, but there is zero doubt that he knows where she is and because of that they should be able to find out with any means possible. She deserves to be found as soon as possible and didn't deserve what that piece of garbage did to her. They should get the information out of him asap.
As for bond, that's ludicrous on too many levels to get into. As others have said, there should be no bound as he hasn't earned that right. He should be locked up forever and never see the outside of a prison again.
You say you are praying for her but you repeatedly call the perpetrator “a piece of garbage.” Maybe you should be praying for yourself if you believe in prayer.
Anyone who does that is "a piece of garbage" and will have to deal with their own salvation. The innocent victim gets prayers, any animal who does such a thing doesn't---not from me anyways.
If Eliza was my daughter or someone else's daughter, even yours, the person who would do such a violent brutal act is a "piece of garbage".
I don't need to pray for myself, but it's quite obvious that you need to do so for yourself.
What a bizarre and strange post you've made. I hope you're proud of yourself.
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