Christine ‘Christy/Christie’ Marie Eastin was born to Barney and Dorothy (nee Martin) on January 4, 1952. Mrs. Eastin was born on August 15, 1918 in Whitman, Washington and Barney was born in Bowling Green, Missouri on July 26, 1920; after getting married the family briefly lived in Seattle before settling down in Hayward, California. It appears that Christine’s Dad died when she was only ten years old at the age of 42 on September 23, 1962. I couldn’t find much else about her background other than she had an older sister named Victoria that was born in 1946. The blonde haired, blue eyed homecoming queen graduated from Sunset High School in 1970. She was 5’7″ and at the time of her disappearance weighed 130 pounds. Christine had a ⅜ inch long scar in the center of her forehead and a surgical scar on her abdomen from an intestinal operation.

Christy was popular and very well liked among her peers; her friends and loved ones said she was a very sweet, beautiful young woman with a gentle spirit that was kind to everyone. In high school she participated in the drama club, was a ‘song girl’ (which was Sunset HS’s version of a cheerleading squad), and a member of Orchesis (which looks like some sort of chorus group). Judy Ruiz-Verhoek, a childhood friend of Eastin’s, said she was ‘just very sweet. Just a gentle spirit, very kind.’ Six months out of high school, in early 1971 Christy was taking classes at Chabot College and was supposed to start a new job at a bank the morning after she disappeared. The nineteen-year old had finally saved up enough money to buy a pair of black boots she had her eye on, so early in the evening on January 18, 1971 she went shopping with her friend Sandy Lemmon-McBride at Mervyn’s in nearby San Lorenzo. In a KTVU interview, Sandy said of the trip: ‘we went to Mervyn’s, we got the boots, she dropped me off at 9:30, and before she left added, ‘’I’m going to go wash the car,’ which she promised she’d do before returning it.’ After the friends were done shopping Eastin dropped Sandy off then went home, which was in a middle-class neighborhood in Hayward, California. After showering she told her family she was going to have her loaner car (a blue 1969 Maverick) washed before she picked up its owner (her ex-bf George Sponsel) from work at a Jack in the Box restaurant located at Mission & Pinedale Court. Despite their relationship technically being over, Christy reportedly still had feelings for her ex-bf and according to reports she desperately wanted to get back together with him. Her friend Sandy said: ‘I know they dated for a while, and she really, really liked him.’ … ‘It sounded like he was ready to move on, and she wasn’t.’ She left her house roughly around 10 PM and was expected to arrive at the Jack in the Box around 11 PM (giving her a little less than an hour to get the car washed when you take drive time into consideration). Christine was last seen wearing a black/brown leather coat, blue pants, her new knee-high black boots, a red/white/blue pinstripe tunic, and a bluish gold scarf.

But Eastin never showed up to pick up George. At around midnight, he called her house asking where she was, and her mother woke up the household then drove straight to the car wash. The Maverick was there, but Chris wasn’t. The car was locked and her purse and scarf were found on the front seat. Immediately after arriving on the scene LE noted several strange details: some papers were found scattered on the ground on the passenger’s side of the vehicle, almost as if there had been a struggle (I did read in two different places that the papers were found next to the drivers side versus the passengers). Despite these alarming signs, investigators initially treated her case as if she were a runaway and her disappearance was barely reported by the media: a local newspaper printed a short blurb on her but nothing more (I was unable to find it despite hours of searching). The first time her story made the TV news was over 30 years after she vanished. I mean, let’s think about her disappearance logically: Eastin was a nineteen year old woman that lived at home her entire life and completely vanished off the face of the earth. All of her worldly possessions were left behind and she had no money; her bank accounts went untouched and her social security number hasn’t had any activity associated with it as well. She had no vehicle and nowhere to go. Obviously she disappeared before the days of the internet and cell phones, so she didn’t meet some guy online then leave to go be with him. Why didn’t the police take situations like this more seriously from the beginning? There’s no reason to hold off investigating and they obviously lose valuable time when they wait like that.

Before leaving home that fateful night Christine didn’t tell any of her loved ones that she was going anywhere other than the car wash then the Jack in the Box. Her family immediately knew something was wrong: she had left everything behind and had a lot of plans for the future. She would never just up and run away. Her sister said: ‘The car was parked by the vacuum cleaners, and her purse and scarf were on the front seat, and the car was locked.’ Eastin was unaccounted for for less than 2 hours, and it’s as if she vanished off the face of the earth. After speaking to Sponsel, investigators allowed him to take his car home a few days later and it was never processed for evidence.

The weekend before she disappeared, Chris spent some time with a group of girlfriends at Charlene Cox’s home on Alice Street in Haywood. The friends gossiped, shared secrets, and even worked on a 1,200 piece puzzle (which was put away unfinished and never touched again). After she vanished Cox and the other friends searched the hills surrounding Hayward looking for Eastin but came up with nothing. Ruiz-Verhoek has made it a priority in her life to solve the mystery of what happened to her friend. Christine’s childhood classmate has looked into reports of dead bodies, looked for clues on the streets of her hometown, and even took the ‘advice’ of psychics who told her where they thought her remains might be located. Judy even dug up a skeleton that later was determined to be animal in nature.

Eastin’s loved ones feverishly searched Hayward and its surrounding areas, showing strangers her picture while pleading with them for any information they may have had on the missing young woman. Charlene Cox said that: ‘If you knew Chris Eastin, I bet you remember exactly what you were doing when you heard she’d disappeared. Her mother’s frantic call woke me up that night, something I’ll never forget, even though I reassured her Chris must be on her way home. I never imagined she’d leave us in such an abrupt and brutal fashion. Chris, Holly Pekkonen and I used to play together at Highland Elementary School in the Hayward hills. They moved, we lost touch, until years later when high school varsity games reconnected Christy and me, both song girls, she for the Sunset High Falcons, and I for the Hayward High Farmers. Later, it was great to further refresh our long-ago friendship at Chabot College, but Christy would only know the exhilaration of being a teen in college for one full session. If you sent her a card that Christmas, it still exists. She’d kept them, treasuring her friendships. So many of you were much closer friends of hers than I, who shared all those ‘growing-up’ years.’ … ‘‘She was one of those sweet people everyone seemed to like. There was never any gossip about her. She didn’t cut school, didn’t do drugs… she was very much into being rah-rah for class spirit.’

In a KTVU interview from March 7, 2019, Christine’s sister Victoria Eastin-Cordova commented about the carefree time of the 70’s and that ‘everyone was kind of footloose and fancy-free and kind of taking off in their what, Volkswagen buses.’ Because of this, the Hayward Police Department most likely suspected that she may have just taken off and didn’t take her disappearance very seriously in the beginning. Chris wasn’t involved in ‘hippie culture’ and didn’t use drugs in any capacity. She had a good group of friends and didn’t hang out with the wrong crowd. Ruiz-Verhoek speculates that on the night she disappeared Eastin may have been in a vulnerable situation to someone with sinister intentions, being alone at night, and: ‘I just always felt that she would be a sitting duck, you know? She was so pretty and striking.’ About the ex-boyfriend as being a suspect in her disappearance, former Hayward PD Captain Jason Martinez said ‘We’ve pretty much eliminated him as a suspect.’ According to Christine’s NAMUS page, George Sponsel was killed in an industrial accident about a month after she disappeared (I did see in a few articles that he died in a car accident).

Sunset High School’s 1970 Homecoming King was Simon Flores, who has always felt that it was possible someone could have seen Chris as an attractive target: ‘Christine was a beautiful young lady. She was like a Barbie doll.’ … ‘I think somebody sort of stumbled upon her, somehow.’ According to loved ones, she was a reliable young woman that would never make her family worry needlessly. She wasn’t depressed or suicidal, and was excited about her new job as a bank teller and the future in general. Victoria said that ‘the police didn’t touch it for 72 hours or take it seriously.’ Most missing persons cases are opened and closed within a week, said retired Concord Police Detective Kurt Messick. He also said that suspicious disappearances are rare but that Eastin’s case would most likely trigger an intense investigation if it happened today. Former Hayward police Captain Manuel Silva went to Sunset High School with Eastin and seemed to be on the same page as Messick: that investigators handle missing persons cases completely differently now and that when Chris disappeared it was customary to wait 72 hours to take a report (which could only be a paragraph in length). In today’s times, LE is required by the state Department of Justice to take a report immediately and policing agencies must give ‘priority to handling of the report.’

Dave Legro was the Hayward police officer that took the report at the self-operated car wash back in 1971. He saw the Ford Maverick in the parking lot, and: ‘to me, it looked like it was staged,’ and that it looked like that the scene may have tried to make it look like Christy was kidnapped, and that: ‘the papers on the ground looked like it was for dramatic appeal.’ According to Legro, he ‘learned that she might have been pregnant and wondered if that somehow played a part in her disappearance.’ To this, her sister commented: ‘very possibly, she could have maybe said, you know, ‘I’m pregnant or something, you’ve got to be with me’ or maybe things got out of hand that way.’ Legro said that the case has bothered him his entire life.

Strangely enough, another young woman I talked about in a previous article named Cindy Lee Mellin disappeared two days after Christine was last seen (I mentioned her in my article on Robin Graham, who is coincidentally also from California). The 19 year old college student was last seen in Ventura, CA at 9:40 PM on January 20, 1970 at the Buenaventura Shopping Center. She was standing by her car and was in the company of a man who appeared to be between 30 and 40 years old and was driving a light colored vehicle. He appeared to be helping Mellin change the left rear tire in her car. Her dad found her vehicle at the mall the next day with a bumper, jack, and flat tire left behind; a sharp object had perforated the side of the tire and the spare was found nearby. Cindy Mellin was never seen or heard from again, and no trace of her has ever been recovered.

At the time Eastin was murdered in January 1971, Bundy was living in Seattle at the Rogers Rooming house on 12th Avenue and was in a long term relationship with Elizabeth Kloepfer. He was also an undergraduate psychology student at the University of Washington, and something interesting I learned while researching this article is that the school follows a quarter system instead of semesters. Under normal circumstances he would have either been on winter break or in the first week or two of classes, but this may not have been the case since they were on quarters (as Bundy may have been in the middle of a semester at the time). At the time he was employed as a delivery driver for Pedline Supply Company, which was a family-owned medical supply company (he was there from June 5, 1970 to December 31, 1971). There’s been a few unconfirmed victims from 1971 I’ve written about, Joyce LePage and Rita Curran are the first two that come to mind. LePage was a 21-year-old junior taking summer classes at Washington State University and was last seen alive on the evening of July 22, 1971 when friends dropped her off at her apartment. Her remains were found nine months later on April 16, 1972 in a gully about 10-15 miles south of Pullman in remote Wawawai Canyon. Rita Curran was a schoolteacher taking summer classes in Burlington, VT that was murdered in her bed in the early morning hours of July 20, 1971. The Burlington Medical Examiner determined that she had been beaten, sexually assaulted, and asphyxiated. They also found evidence that the young woman had fiercely resisted her attacker and put up a ‘vicious struggle.’ In February 2023 it was determined that William DeRoos killed Curran.

The ‘TB Multiagency Investigative Team Report 1992’ doesn’t give much information for Bundy’s whereabouts for 1971… just that he was in school at the University of Washington and that he left his job at Pedline at the end of the year. I also referenced my copy of Dr. Robert Dielenberg’s text, ‘Ted Bundy: A Visual Timeline,’ and on page 86 it says: ‘January 1971: Ted back again at the Univ. Wash; takes up studies in psychology.’ (page 86.) Did he make the 10+ hour drive to Hayward from Seattle to abduct then kill Eastin in January 1971? During Bundy’s death row confessions he told Dr. Robert Keppell that he committed his first murder in 1972. But I mean, it’s no secret he was a compulsive liar so obviously nothing he says can really be taken as 100% truth. In a separate event, when asked when he committed his first murder the serial killer refused to answer. He did admit to killing one woman in California but they have not been identified.

Another serial killer whose name frequently comes up in relation to the disappearance of Christine Eastin is Richard Allen Davis. Davis is a serial murderer whose actions began efforts for the passage of California’s ‘three-strikes law’ for repeat offenders and the involuntary civil commitment act for sex offenders and predators; it was signed into law on March 8, 1994. By the time he was 12, Davis was placed on probation for burglary and forgery. He dropped out of school his sophomore year of high school and told a psychiatrist that stealing relieved any ‘tensions’ that were building up inside him. When Davis was in court for a motorcycle theft at 17 a judge gave him the choice of  joining the US Army or going to the California Youth Authority. He chose the Army and received a dishonorable discharge after 13 months of service. On October 12, 1973 he went to a party at the home of Marlene Voris, who was found dead of a gunshot wound later that same night. There were several notes found at the scene, and LE concluded that the 18-year-old committed suicide (although friends believe it was Davis that killed her). A few weeks after Voris’ death, he was arrested for attempting to pawn property he had stolen. He confessed to a string of burglaries in La Honda and served six months in the county jail. Five weeks after his release on May 13, 1974 he was arrested for another burglary. He was sentenced to 6 months to 15 years in prison and was released on parole after serving only a year of his sentence.

On October 1, 1993 12-year-old Polly Klaas and two friends were having a slumber party at her home in Petaluma, California. Around 10:30 PM, an intoxicated Richard Davis entered her bedroom carrying a knife he stole from the Klaases’ kitchen. He told them that he was only there for money and wouldn’t hurt them. He tied Polly’s friends up, put pillowcases over their heads, told them to count to 1,000, then left with Klaas. On the evening of December 4, 1993, Davis confessed to kidnapping and murdering Polly Klaas and told investigators they would find her remains in a shallow grave about a mile south of the city limits of Cloverdale, CA. He was diagnosed with avoidant personality disorder, antisocial personality disorder, and schizoid personality disorder. In 1977, he told a psychiatrist that Voris’ death had deeply affected him and he heard her voice in his head. In 1996, he was convicted of first-degree murder with special circumstances: burglary, robbery, kidnapping, and an attempted lewd act upon a child under the age of 14. As of December 2023, he remains on death row in the Adjustment Center at San Quentin State Prison in California. But just to be clear, I found nothing tying Richard Allen Davis to Christine Eastin’s disappearance other than a comment made by a WordPress blogger ‘whereaboutsstillunknown,’ saying that he was ‘said to have kidnapped and raped a teenage girl in Hayward in 1971.’ However when I started looking into his timeline I could verify no such fact. The only thing I could find about his whereabouts and actions in the early 1970’s is that he was arrested on September 15, 1970 for participating in a motorcycle theft and he entered the Army in July 1971.

Another name that is thrown around in Eastin’s case is The Zodiac Killer, and if I can be truthful he was the first suspect I thought of when I started my research. I mean, the timing sort of makes sense, and so does the location: as far as his confirmed victims go, he was active in California in 1968 and 1969 (well, obviously this is a bit before January 1971). If I can be honest, I’m no Zodiac expert. I probably know more than the average person but at the same time there is a LOT that I don’t know about the case. However, according to Ruiz-Verhoek, a retired San Francisco detective named Armond Pelisetti said that the MO didn’t fit, and the Zodiac left his victims in the open waiting to be found, where Eastin just vanished off the face of the earth.

Another name thrown out there regarding the disappearance of Eastin is Joseph James DeAngelo. Also dubbed ‘the Golden State Killer,’ DeAngelo is a former mechanic, former cop, burglar, rapist, and serial killer that committed at least 13 murders, 51 rapes, and 120 burglaries throughout California between 1974 and 1986. He is responsible for three separate crime sprees throughout the state, each one generating a new nickname in the press before it became obvious that the atrocities were committed by the same individual (the other two are the East Area Rapist and the Original Night Stalker). I do think we can rule out DeAngelo in Eastin’s disappearance, as the timing doesn’t quite match up.

Phillip Garrido has also been suggested as possibly being responsible for Eastin’s disappearance. I’ve never heard of this guy before, but looking into him his first crime was reported over a year after she disappeared: in 1972, he was arrested and charged with sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl, although the case never went to trial because she declined to testify. In 1977, he was sentenced to 50 years in prison for kidnapping a woman then taking her to a storage unit in Reno to sexually assault her. Despite the long sentence, under 1970’s-era sentencing laws he was eligible for federal parole after just 10 years; he was released in 1988. In 1991, he kidnapped 11-year-old Jaycee Lee Dugard and held her captive for 18 years until his arrest in August 2009. During this time, he fathered two children with her. In my opinion, he never should have been released in 1988.

Oddly enough, one of the last things I found during my research on Eastin was a TikTok video, and in the comments section someone suggested that maybe the Toolbox Killers may have been responsible for her disappearance. Looking into them, Lawrence Sigmund Bittaker and Roy Lewis Norris were rapists and serial killers that committed the kidnapping, rape, torture, and murder of five teenage girls across the southern part of California over a five-month period in 1979. FBI Special Agent John Edward Douglas described Bittaker as the most disturbing individual for whom he has ever created a criminal profile. Despite receiving the death penalty on March 24, 1981, he died of natural causes while on death row at San Quentin State Prison in December 2019. On May 7, 1980 Norris accepted a plea deal where he agreed to testify against Bittaker in return for a life sentence with the possibility of parole after serving thirty years. He died of natural causes at the all-male California Medical Facility in Vacaville in February 2020. They became known as the ‘Tool Box Killers’ because most of instruments they used to inflict torture upon their victims were items typically found inside a household toolbox; these items included sledgehammers, ice picks, and pliers. Strangely enough, according to my research Bittaker was out of prison and unaccounted for when Eastin disappeared in January 1971: a month after he was paroled in July 1967 he was again arrested for leaving the scene of an accident and theft. He was released in April 1970 and again wasn’t out for long: less than a year later in March 1971 he was again arrested for burglary. I mean, he didn’t have any reported murders before 1979, so again I think we can count him out in Eastin’s case.

Christine’s case quickly went cold. No new information related to her case was released to the public until 1999, when LE released a photo of what she may look like at 47 years old hoping it could lead to possible answers. In early 2005, the (former) Governator of California Arnold  Schwarzenegger offered a $50,000 reward for any information that led to the recovery of Christine Eastin. After the reward was announced, a billboard was constructed in late February of 2005 near the car wash that she disappeared from. At this time, former Hayward Police Chief Lloyd Lowe said that he believed there were still people out there that had first-hand knowledge of the crime that needed an incentive to contact law enforcement, and asked that a state reward be offered to encourage these people to come forward.

Things settled down again until 2019 when an unidentified female came forward and shared with investigators that she saw two men abduct Christine from the car wash before driving off in a white van. The witness said she didn’t report it at the time because she wasn’t sure what exactly she was seeing. They were only able to get a good look at the driver, as the accomplice was out of view putting Eastin in the back of the vehicle. The witness described the van as having a very particular style of rectangular side mirrors known as ‘west coast mirrors.’ In September of 2019 a composite sketch of the suspect was released to the public. If I can be honest… I don’t know if I completely buy her story. What made her come forward after all of this time? Was it a personal decision that she made with herself in 1971 to not get involved? Perhaps she possibly thought it might have been a domestic dispute between lovers (even though this sounds like a stretch)? Or maybe she genuinely had no clue what was going on until she saw a story on the news about the case (there’s been a lot on her in recent years) and it made her realize that she saw something more than she originally thought? I don’t know, in my opinion it’s just an odd detail to remember after almost fifty years.

The latest update in Eastin’s disappearance occurred in January of 2020, when LE went to the public asking them to share any information they may have regarding the case: ‘it has been 49 years since she disappeared.  But this will remain an open investigation until we can bring long sought answers to Christine’s family. To achieve this goal, we have a dedicated detective assigned to this investigation. There is a suspicion of foul play in Christine’s disappearance.’

At the 25th Sunset High School Reunion on August 23, 1996, a classmate of Eastin’s named Tannis Krist-Janson handed out fliers that (now retired) Detective Frank Daley from the Hayward Police Department had designed that contained Christine’s picture as well as a summary of the case. When the two girls were freshman they sang in the chorus together in the school’s prodution of ‘Oliver.’ Of her friend, Krist-Janson said: ‘A lot of people remembered her and thought it was really sad. There were clusters of conversations all around and you could tell they were talking about her.’ About 90 people attended the reunion, which was for the graduating classes of 1969 through 1972.

There is a homemade, almost crude website for the 25th reunion for the Sunset High School classes of 1969 through 1972, and a good portion of it is dedicated to the memory of Christine Eastin. Posted on the page is a letter from Detective Daley to the Alumni of Sunset High School dated December 23, 1998. A portion of that correspondence states: ’I have been searching for anyone that would be willing to provide us with any facts about Chris and her activities on that day.  During the past five years I have interviewed numerous friends of Chris concerning  their thoughts on what could have happened to her.  I have interviewed her ex-boyfriend George Sponsel. He was unable to provide any information on what might have occurred to Chris. I have spoken to her friends, Rebecca Harris, Tannis Kristjanson and several other people that knew her.  All of the persons contacted said Christine would have never left the area unless she was forced to.  No one has heard from her since the day she was reported missing. I would like to talk to anyone that can tell me about other friends that Christine had that might be able to help me put this puzzle together.  If you have any knowledge of places that Christine would frequent or people that she knew I would appreciate a telephone call or a letter.’

In another portion of the website ‘25th Reunion Rekindles Death Probe,’ a letter written by Glenn Chapman dated September 2, 1996 says: ‘I knew Chris, went to Sunset with her. I wonder what the ties are to Richard Allen Davis to make people think that he may have abducted her? Was he living in Hayward at the time? Wouldn’t he have talked about it by now? Chris was intelligent but also very kind. Now if someone came up to me at a car wash, and looked like Richard Allen Davis (rough looking, tattoos, etc.) I’d lock my doors and get out. However, if someone came up to me and asked for help and looked like Phillip Garrido did back in 1971, I might be inclined to help out. (yes, shades of Ted Bundy here) Maybe Phillip Garrido did exactly what he did to Katie Calloway to Chris, asked for some help with something and then bam. Maybe that’s why the car was locked, but her purse left inside, because she went to help someone else. That would be Chris, she was a kind, giving person. Did they ever find the keys? Were they in the car or not? If not, did anyone look for them at Garrido’s place, he WAS a hoarder, you know. This sounds more like a PG scenario than a Richard Davis crime scene. She was also his ‘type’, blond with blue eyes. Where was Phillip Garrido in 1971? Can’t seem to find much on him from back then. In her police report, Katie Calloway said PG told her he had done ‘this’ (raped a woman) twice before, in the Bay Area and in Las Vegas. Where are those women now? If they are alive, why aren’t they coming forward? It is a horrible tragedy that Chris’ mom is now gone and had to go to her grave not ever knowing what happened to her beautiful daughter. None of us who knew her, will ever forget her!’

In the over 50 years since Eastin disappeared law enforcement have chased countless dead ends, leads, and rumors that have all led to nothing. Her mother died at the age of 66 in February 1985 in Boise, Idaho. Victoria shared that her sisters disappearance aged her mother 20 years, and ‘she could have looked 86 instead of 66.’ When asked in an interview what she thanks happened to her sister, Victoria sighed and said, ‘I don’t know. I have gone over, I bet you, a trillion scenarios in the last 47 years.’ … ‘Please, come forward. We just need to put this to rest. It’s been such a burden for so many years.’ … ‘When you don’t know what happened, you think of a hundred thousand scenarios of what could have happened that drive you up the wall.’ … ‘The persistent efforts by Detective Daley gives me the confidence that there will be a resolution to Christy’s disappearance.  If anyone has a tidbit of memory about someone/something please express it, as it may be the one piece that proves very important.’

Eastin-Cordova has set up a ‘gofundme’ page for donations to help in the recovery of her little sister. On it, Victoria says: ‘Chris, a Sunset High School graduate and Chabot College student, was happy and about to start a new job the next day. She had plans for her future and certainly was not a runaway. She was my only sibling. Donations will fund  a new, comprehensive effort by Tracy Olson [phone redacted]. Any funds beyond the cost of the investigation will go toward flyers and other expenses, and possibly to enhance the existing reward established by the State of California in 2005. Where previous efforts have failed, we hope this private investigation will dig deep and finally shed light on Christine’s demise. Not knowing what really happened to her; not being able to bring resolution to her life story has been and still is distressing to her family and friends, all who loved her.’

If Christine Marie Eastin was alive in December 2023 she would be 71 years old; her disappearance is currently Hayward PD’s oldest missing-persons case. Former Captain Martinez said: ‘we would love to get closure on this case.’ … ‘There are a variety of different theories behind the case, however nothing substantial that we can absolutely pinpoint and say, ‘this is what I think happened.’’ Retired Detective Daley said that maybe ‘an old friend or someone from the class might know something and decide it is time the police know about it.’ Not that I have any training in criminology or police work, but my gut tells me Eastin was abducted by an opportunistic stranger that took advantage of the beautiful, kind-hearted young woman that was by herself at night. I think her abductor was driving by the car wash and noticed her alone and in a vulnerable situation then took advantage of her. He probably pulled up next to her, maybe he asked her for directions… lulled her into a false sense of security then pounced. And unless someone comes forward, we will never know.