Melissa Jenkins, young mom murdered, VT.

[Kip]

Definitely sounds premeditated and that she was specifically targeted.

Kip, I also wondered about the checkerboard pattern. The circular pattern on her neck might be a ring.

HM - good thought about the circular pattern. I've since wondered if the checkerboard pattern might be the shoe sole tread pattern.

I can't get over the depravity of these perps, killing purely for their own perverted pleasure. Plus they knew Melissa had a child. The child was in the car for God's sake, and they killed her right in front of the child. Then they left the child. If the child had been there overnight, he might have suffered hypothermia.

There's such a striking difference between the victim and the perps. Melissa thought this guy was weird and felt uncomfortable about him, yet went out of her way to help him anyway.