Missing UW-W student's body found (Confirmed)

[jaybird2001wi]

I went to UW-Whitewater, didn't know her... but she was majoring in Public relations... which was my minor. I definitely feel for her family at this point.

 

Body Found in Village of Oregon, near Madison

 

(Edited subject again to reflect the ID status - hawing)

[craigharmann]

They haven't said for sure it was her. You have to think that it might be, but you never know. My prayers are with her family.

[7rebmun]

Very bizzare sidenote, my brother was contacted as a suspect in this case, as they were looking for someone that had attended UW-Whitewater with the same first name as him and had been in the Madison area that night.

[Invader3K]

Last I heard, they hadn't IDed the body yet, but were considering it a homicide investigation at this point.

 

Pretty sad, either way.

[jaybird2001wi]

Why do I get the feeling that this is going to be such a bizarre case that it has Law and Order: SVU written all over it?

[bigopey76]

As of the 2pm press conference, Madison PD still is not confirming, nor denying, that the body is that of Kelly Nolan. This whole story has been strange from the get go.

[jaybird2001wi]

My theory may be way off-base, but here is what I think may have happened the night she disappeared:

 

- Gets walked home by male friend and runs into another male friend she knew from UW-Whitewater.

- Male friend may have had a vehicle with him and wanted to talk to her about something.

- Male friend tries to do "something" to her and she tries to fend him off.

- Nolan likely dies as a result and is dumped in Oregon, between Madison and Edgerton.

 

- I used to be a news reporter/intern for the Lake County News-Sun. From my experience there, they will likely spend the next 24 hours undergoing forensics to positively identify her. Then they will notify the family before going before the press.

- Afterwards, they will undergo toxicology results to see how much alcohol content was in her at the time of her death and the Medical Examiner/coroner will run a series of tests to see if there was foul play (abrasions, cuts, wounds, gunshot entrances and then they would most definitely try to see if she was assaulted by the assailant).

 

If you must see proof that I was a news reporter down in Waukegan, Ill, take a look at one of my articles:

 

Tank Johnson's house raided

[MadisonBrewerBlue]

i think mpd has learned lots since audrey seiler case...they give minimal info

[bigopey76]

To go off of what MadisonBrewerBlue said, at their 4:30 pm press conference the coroner said that the body might be that of Nolan and then Chief Ray said they believe there is a suspect at large. They were also very tight lipped about the methods they used to find the site and all other information.

[PeaveyFury]

Doesn't the fact that they were searching near Oregon in the first place mean they have some sort of tip or info as to what happened or may have happened? Afterall, it's a heck of a long way from State Street to Oregon for them to be looking there in the first place without a reason to.

[bigopey76]

They said something about cell phone tracking/technology, but they wouldn't elaborate any further than that.

[PeaveyFury]

And it took them 2 weeks to think to track her cell phone?

 

Gah, I hope it's more elaborate than that.

[hawing]

And it took them 2 weeks to think to track her cell phone?

 

I wondered about that too. Did they only think of it recently, or did they only recently act on a ping they'd known about from the start? Neither makes a ton of sense.

 

But if they were out there at 4:30 AM, they had to have had some kind of pretty good lead.

[berniebrewer4life]

I had met kelly at the bars a few times. Nice girl. I really feel for her family.

[ccbrew]

They say that she left Amy's Cafe on Gorham St., at which point an employee handed her off to a guy who said he knew her. Weird, considering I'll be living across the street from there in a month.

 

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[hawing]

Yeah, imagine being that Amy's employee. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/frown.gif

[RyDogg66]

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If I am a Madison Police Detective he is suspect #1. I dont buy his story at all. I imagine she is at Amy's and probably knows this guy, at least a little bit. She is drunk, no doubt, after a night of partying. He is walking her home for one of a variety of reasons (it is on his way, potential "romance", he is concerned for her safety, etc.)

 

No matter the reason, what he does next in just bizzare. He is walking his drunk female friend home at 2:00 a.m. Some guy, who he claims he DOESNT know approaches, says he knows the girl and will take her the rest of the way. Without talking to this girl, finding out how this guy knows her (she is from Whitewater, not Madison, what are the chances this guy actually knows her), or finding out his name he just hands her over.

 

In short, the cafe employee made a decision - for some specific reason - to walk her home, and all it took to change his mind was a stranger offering to take her home instead.

 

I call B.S. on that, or it is incredibly bad judgment.

[bigopey76]

If I recall correctly, I don't think the Amy's employee knew her. However, he did create a bit of a catch-22 when he walked her home and that guy ran into her. He probably decided to do the good thing and walk her home, but to hand her off to someone, even if they claimed to know her, was a bad idea. The part we'll probably never know for sure is if she indicated that she knew the person who approached them. That is what a lot of this hinges on.

[RyDogg66]

If he didnt know her then that, to me, raises the chance that he may have done something bad to her, or intended to.

[aracko]

Do we know the employee was a man?

[brewerfan82]

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In short, the cafe employee made a decision - for some specific reason - to walk her home, and all it took to change his mind was a stranger offering to take her home instead.

 

I call B.S. on that, or it is incredibly bad judgment.

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I'm not sold that it's BS...

 

I think it's totally plausible that he was trying to be a good guy and walk her home. The rest of what happened really needs a more detailed explanation before you can assume he was totally at fault.

 

If you and a girl are walking down the street in the middle of the night, why would a stranger randomly approach you and act like he knows the girl you're with? The stranger must have had some background knowledge of the girl or at least the situation. At that point what's the difference between him leaving her with someone he thought she knew and all the other girls bars allow to leave their premise with unknown "strangers".

 

It's an unfortunate circumstance for the bar employee to be in at this point in time, but until we hear more to the story, I think it's rather unfair to place much if any blame on him.

 

The real question is, why wasn't she with anyone else that could have taken her home from the bar?

[RyDogg66]

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If you and a girl are walking down the street in the middle of the night, why would a stranger randomly approach you and act like he knows the girl you're with? The stranger must have had some background knowledge of the girl or at least the situation. At that point what's the difference between him leaving her with someone he thought she knew and all the other girls bars allow to leave their premise with unknown "strangers".

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Yeah, it doesnt make sense, which is why I would focus on that employee first. His story doesnt add up. Im not convicting the guy, just saying that if I was a cop he'd be my first suspect.

[PeaveyFury]

Again, why does employee automatically = man?

[RyDogg66]

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A cafe employee reported seeing Nolan early June 23 and walked her toward her home until they ran into another man who said he knew Nolan, according to Tom Paras, the owner of Amy's Cafe.

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Context clues I suppose. They said "another man" which seems to indicated that Nolan was accompanied by a male, making the "supposed third person" another man, instead of just a man.

[Barbs4339]

All accounts,although pretty typical in a situation like this, is that she is the type of person that something like this would never happen to. I just read that she recently served a jail sentence for her 2nd DUI and was obviously drunk on this particular night. Now I am not saying she deserved what happened to her or anything like that, it just seems like she had a problem with alcohol and kept putting herself in bad situations so that it was only a matter of time before something bad did happen to her. I also read her father died in 2006 and her stepmom died in May so that probably had something to do with the drinking. Seems like she needed more help than she was getting. Very sad.