possible scenarios of how their suspect could have gotten hold of the Pink Panther panties. He added that detectives would have no way of knowing how he had gotten them until their owner came forward and identified them.
“We don’t care what her story is,” McDonald said. “We’d just like for that woman to come forward. She may know something that can help us, even if she doesn’t realize it. It could be the key to catching the killer.”
McDonald returned to the subject of the other pair of panties found with Brianna’s body and how the owner, who had lived at the MacKay Court residence, had come forward and said that she did not know how her panties had been stolen. McDonald hinted at the possibility that the killer could have stolen them at any time, since the residents of the house always left the doors unlocked. Was it possible that Brianna’s killer had entered that house earlier, before she was killed? If so, that meant that her killer had been watching the house. It was a chilling thought, but it was also possible that he had found the panties on the morning that he killed Brianna.
McDonald said that the detectives were interested in learning more about men who collected women’s underwear. He said that the team already had received a number of tips about the so-called underwear fetishists, but the information they developed from those tips had not provided anything to lead them to the man for whom they were looking.
Meanwhile, as one day followed another, and soon turned into weeks, and then months, the search for Brianna’s killer yielded few clues, leaving many of Reno’s younger women, especially those who were UNR students, wary about their safety. By June 2008, security was still high at UNR, even though the regular academic year had given way to summer sessions. UNR’s typical enrollment of about 16,500 students diminished dramatically when the spring semester ended in mid-May, but the summer session had approximately sixty-five hundred students enrolled for classes. Another five thousand or so middle-school and high-school students were also expected on campus during the summer months when they would be attending programs in “Kids University” or some of the other summer academic and sports programs held on campus. According to UNR police chief Adam Garcia, the UNR campus never closed, requiring the campus police to maintain normal staffing levels of twenty-eight sworn positions, as well as patrol officers and supervisory personnel.
“Our operations continue as always,” Garcia said. “We run as all police departments do, twenty-four/ seven, and we don’t take into account whether or not school is in regular session. We still have a lot of properties that we are responsible for.
“We (the police) can never let our guard down and must always remain vigilant,” Garcia added, saying that it is human nature to become complacent as time passed after a tragedy. “I would hope (non–law enforcement) people would do the same. With or without the specter of the unfortunate death of Brianna, we still encourage people to be aware of their surroundings, whether it’s dark or during the daytime. People need to take stock of their own safety and travel in groups and report any suspicious activity to the police.”
Some female students reported feeling safe on campus during daytime hours, but they admitted that fear usually began to set in come nightfall. Jung Eun Lee, a clinical psychology student, was one such student. Jung, who lived in a neighborhood near the university, said that she tried to avoid being on campus at night, or even anywhere near the campus outdoors during the evening hours. However, she sometimes had to do clinical work in the evenings at UNR.
“I still feel a little afraid,” Jung said, even though months had passed since Brianna was killed and the other attacks occurred. “Even though it’s still light now at seven-thirty or eight at night, I ask my cohorts to give
“We don’t care what her story is,” McDonald said. “We’d just like for that woman to come forward. She may know something that can help us, even if she doesn’t realize it. It could be the key to catching the killer.”
McDonald returned to the subject of the other pair of panties found with Brianna’s body and how the owner, who had lived at the MacKay Court residence, had come forward and said that she did not know how her panties had been stolen. McDonald hinted at the possibility that the killer could have stolen them at any time, since the residents of the house always left the doors unlocked. Was it possible that Brianna’s killer had entered that house earlier, before she was killed? If so, that meant that her killer had been watching the house. It was a chilling thought, but it was also possible that he had found the panties on the morning that he killed Brianna.
McDonald said that the detectives were interested in learning more about men who collected women’s underwear. He said that the team already had received a number of tips about the so-called underwear fetishists, but the information they developed from those tips had not provided anything to lead them to the man for whom they were looking.
Meanwhile, as one day followed another, and soon turned into weeks, and then months, the search for Brianna’s killer yielded few clues, leaving many of Reno’s younger women, especially those who were UNR students, wary about their safety. By June 2008, security was still high at UNR, even though the regular academic year had given way to summer sessions. UNR’s typical enrollment of about 16,500 students diminished dramatically when the spring semester ended in mid-May, but the summer session had approximately sixty-five hundred students enrolled for classes. Another five thousand or so middle-school and high-school students were also expected on campus during the summer months when they would be attending programs in “Kids University” or some of the other summer academic and sports programs held on campus. According to UNR police chief Adam Garcia, the UNR campus never closed, requiring the campus police to maintain normal staffing levels of twenty-eight sworn positions, as well as patrol officers and supervisory personnel.
“Our operations continue as always,” Garcia said. “We run as all police departments do, twenty-four/ seven, and we don’t take into account whether or not school is in regular session. We still have a lot of properties that we are responsible for.
“We (the police) can never let our guard down and must always remain vigilant,” Garcia added, saying that it is human nature to become complacent as time passed after a tragedy. “I would hope (non–law enforcement) people would do the same. With or without the specter of the unfortunate death of Brianna, we still encourage people to be aware of their surroundings, whether it’s dark or during the daytime. People need to take stock of their own safety and travel in groups and report any suspicious activity to the police.”
Some female students reported feeling safe on campus during daytime hours, but they admitted that fear usually began to set in come nightfall. Jung Eun Lee, a clinical psychology student, was one such student. Jung, who lived in a neighborhood near the university, said that she tried to avoid being on campus at night, or even anywhere near the campus outdoors during the evening hours. However, she sometimes had to do clinical work in the evenings at UNR.
“I still feel a little afraid,” Jung said, even though months had passed since Brianna was killed and the other attacks occurred. “Even though it’s still light now at seven-thirty or eight at night, I ask my cohorts to give
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