Re: WalMart Victim ID's Suspect in Attack Video


tiny dancer wrote:
> I've been watching to see if this video is released to the TV channels, but
> so far, not.
> Victim ID's Suspect in Attack Video
> Erin O'Hearn
> (07/28/05 -- DURHAM) - A Duke professor feels that Durham police are making
> progress on their investigation into her mystery attacker.
>
> Ten days after the attack, Hill thought she would be able to see the store
> surveillance video from the attack. Instead, Durham police showed her
> still-frames from the video Thursday. Hill believes she spotted her
> attacker.
> "I could tell immediately that was the person," she told Eyewitness News. "I
> wouldn't have been able to identify him with just the face, but I definitely
> could identify him with the clothes."
>
> Hill would have preferred to see the entire video just after the attack --
> not more than a week later. She wishes the tape would have been shown to
> others in the store who may have recognized the mystery attacker.
>
>
> "I think it's probably a little too late," Hill said.
>
> The Duke nursing professor says Durham police have done too little, too late
> since the strange man beat her over the head and back, forcing doctors to
> staple her scalp. Hill wonders why it took police two days to assign the
> case and request the surveillance tape from Wal-Mart. She also wonders why
> police have not asked for the blood-caked clothes she was wearing that day.
>
> "They never examined my clothes," Hill said. "Yes, it bothers me, but she
> told me this wasn't 'CSI.'"
>
> Durham police will not comment on the case or release video of the attack.
> Officials say it would jeopardize, not help, their investigation.
>
> http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/story?section=triangle&id=3297735
>
> end

Has anyone determined what the motive was for the attack on Hill?
I've not read any accusations of attempted robbery, rape, etc. just
that she was "attacked". Could've just been a wacked out indigent.
Odd.

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