Her car was sitting in the filter lane, about to turn right, empty…
The day she went missing caused a great deal of endless speculation. In the lane next to her car, the driver was staring at some sort of obstacle sitting in the road. He got out of his vehicle to remove it. It looked like a large bag of rubbish. He picked it up and was taking it to the nearest footpath, when he saw the that the car at the front of the filter lane had no driver! Of course, It didn’t take long before motorists began sounding their horns. The manageress in the ladies dress shop on the corner, hearing all the honking, went to the front window to look out. When she saw the man dumping a bag of rubbish in front of her window, she came out and asked him what he thought he was doing.
With all of the hullabaloo going on, the man ignored her, returned to his car, got in and drove off. Pretty soon the lane cleared and the flow of traffic returned to normal. This left only the filter lane jammed up with cars.
The events that followed were pretty chaotic. The police were soon on the scene, managing to get the traffic moving again, while at the same time doing their best to get statements from drivers, passengers and bystanders. To make their job even more difficult was the fact that the CCTV had gone on the blink earlier that morning.
A tow truck was called and the empty vehicle was towed away.
Witness statements varied quite a bit.
The obstacle in question turned out to be a large bag of old clothes. The sort of discarded items that can be found in any of a number of charity bins around the town.
It has to be said, that as young adults in their early twenties, she and her boyfriend both had issues at home. Her parents had separated and she was living with her mother. It wasn’t good and she couldn’t wait to move out. As for him, for some reason, his parents weren’t at all happy with her as his current girlfriend. He had never got on with his father. He too was looking for a way to escape.
He, with his annual time off from work, was about to fly out to stay in a holiday resort in Cyprus. She would fly out later the same day, to the same destination.
He had devised the plan. At the very least, you would have to say that the plan was elaborate. With her quickly putting on a false beard and a beanie, then slipping out of the passenger side, keeping the bag low and out of sight. Her tossing it in front of the car next to hers, crossing to the opposite side of the street and walking down a laneway, never to be seen again.
Once meeting up at the resort, using fake passports with different names, care of the dark web, they would fly together to an unknown destination.
Now, sitting together on the plane, they really did have to ask themselves whether they would actually get away with it?