Recall, if you will, her friends saying that Suzanne would NEVER enter a car with someone, or several people, she didn't know, and her friends, parents and sister describing how strong-willed she was. We do not need to revisit the argument of "force," by the drug thugs; rather:
That might depend. When I was in college I frequently hitchhiked into Boston or Cambridge. Otherwise you had to take a bus and then a train; it was a pain in the ass. I only did this alone in daylight; at night with one or more people. I'm appalled when I think back; it was dangerous.
But my point is this: Suzanne and her friends might have considered hitchhiking one thing, and being "picked up" another, if you follow.
And: if we follow your reconstruction, we still haven't dealt with all the blood, or with the fact that a mortally wounded woman, no matter how athletic, is unlikely to have been able to stay on her feet for more than a few minutes after she'd sustained her injuries.
Remember also that scalp wounds bleed copiously, even when not severe. If she were still conscious for awhile as she bled to death, she'd have gone into deep shock pretty quickly, I believe. |
