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The woman’s nude body was lying a few feet from a large tree in a grassy area covered with leaves on the right side of the dirt road just over a steep rise. She was lying on her back with her arms extended up from her body. Her legs were slightly apart and extended, but it didn’t appear her body had been “posed.” There was a black-and-tan striped shoelace or bootlace around her neck. Police couldn’t figure out if there were two laces or one lace that had been wrapped around her neck twice. There were leaves on the left side of her head and maggot eggs on her face, genitals, and the other openings on her body.
Police also found empty shopping bags and facial tissues near the woman’s body, which they collected as evidence. About a hundred feet away from her body in the shoulder-length grass next to the road and near a bean field, police found a white tennis shoe with blue striping on it. A short distance away, police discovered the other tennis shoe in a thicket. It appeared that someone had tossed each shoe separately into the brush from the road because police didn’t find any evidence that anyone had trampled on the scrub in the area.
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When he was finished, he told her he was a cop, so there was no point telling anyone he raped her because no one would believe her. He also said that neither the truck nor the house was his, so she had no way to identify him. Then, without saying another word, the man walked Tiffany to his truck and drove her back to where he had picked her up.
Tiffany saw the stranger again later that month. It was September 24. Tiffany was walking on Laramie Street with several women, including Linda Neal, when she saw the guy driving his pretty blue Dodge Dakota. Tiffany recognized the man immediately. She warned Linda not to get in the guy’s truck, because he was crazy, but Linda said she’d be fine. She told Tiffany not to worry about her. Tiffany never knew if Linda went with the guy. She only knew that the next day, a group of campers found Linda’s body along a gravel road in a nearby town close to the Mackinaw River.
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