Post by hi224 on Sept 25, 2019 0:33:58 GMT
www.9and10news.com/2019/07/05/kelly-boyce-hurlbert-hit-and-run-case-remains-unsolved-six-years-later/
I live in Traverse City, MI. Every year over the first week of July we have a festival called The National Cherry Festival, as we are the cherry capital of the world. Our city triples in population that week due to the influx of tourists and festival goers. As the festival came to a close in 2013 the was a tragic death...
Here are the facts... (I will attempt to lay them out as chronologically as I know them)
On July 4th Kelly Hurlbert had worked the late shift at a local restaurant. Her husband Paul was in the pub under the restaurant playing with his band. When her shift ended she quickly went to see her husband wrap up his set. After the set ended around 1 am, the couple stayed and spent some time with friends. Shortly before 2 am Kelly left for home, a mere 5 blocks from the pub. They rode their bikes as they lived so close to where they both were employed. That night Paul had his band equipment so he stayed to finish packing it up. Kelly was on her bike alone on Washington St. Where she was riding the road runs parallel to the main downtown one way, Front St. which is one block north of her location. At about 2 am she is hit by a car. The impact knocks her off her bike and throws the bike. She is trapped under the car and is subsequently dragged for 2 blocks. The car leaves the scene and Kelly is left in the road. Someone calls 911 and ambulances arrive and work to stabilize her. The police contact Paul who is home by now from the pub, he thought it odd that Kelly was not there when he arrived. He sees the ambulance lights from his porch, a little over a block away as he speaks to the police. When informed that it's Kelly, he drops everything and runs toward the scene. She is rushed to the hospital with severe injuries and passes away hours later.
Now in discussion with others it's always brushed off as a drunk driver or a tourist or just an accident. Please note I don't use the word accident because I don't think it was.
Here's why...
[Edit from the original] In the two years prior there were two other similar incidents involving a hit and run by a black SUV or truck in the same area of town The first caused minor injuries while the second caused broken limbs, the victims looked similar to Kelly. In my study of JTR I have learned the markers of escalation and that is what this seems like because the third incident resulted in death... Several months prior to Kelly's death there was another incident that was almost identical in a small town south of Traverse City. A lady was hit and dragged under the vehicle and the then dislodged by the driver and left to die in an empty lot.
[Original] Witnesses say the vehicle was a black truck or SUV... Paul said that Kelly knew to stay close to the curb and that there is plenty of room on that road for cars and bikes. If she was that close to the curb how and why did the truck get that close with at least hitting the curb. That road is residential and 25 mph. Though you can do damage a 25 I don't think the force or momentum is enough to do THAT much. The driver had to have felt the impact or at the very least running her over. Lastly and the one point that is the reason I believe this was calculated... the people who lived one the road could hear her screaming in their house set back from the road. This is the historic district so the houses are old and it's late at night. The part that is perplexing is why if the neighbors heard her WHY COULDNT THE DRIVER? Was he ignoring them? People have said maybe he had the radio on but screams like that pierce through.
Side note: I say "he" because if this was calculated it's likely a man.
This is all true, I've been to the scene. There have been no incidents since. It remains unsolved...
I live in Traverse City, MI. Every year over the first week of July we have a festival called The National Cherry Festival, as we are the cherry capital of the world. Our city triples in population that week due to the influx of tourists and festival goers. As the festival came to a close in 2013 the was a tragic death...
Here are the facts... (I will attempt to lay them out as chronologically as I know them)
On July 4th Kelly Hurlbert had worked the late shift at a local restaurant. Her husband Paul was in the pub under the restaurant playing with his band. When her shift ended she quickly went to see her husband wrap up his set. After the set ended around 1 am, the couple stayed and spent some time with friends. Shortly before 2 am Kelly left for home, a mere 5 blocks from the pub. They rode their bikes as they lived so close to where they both were employed. That night Paul had his band equipment so he stayed to finish packing it up. Kelly was on her bike alone on Washington St. Where she was riding the road runs parallel to the main downtown one way, Front St. which is one block north of her location. At about 2 am she is hit by a car. The impact knocks her off her bike and throws the bike. She is trapped under the car and is subsequently dragged for 2 blocks. The car leaves the scene and Kelly is left in the road. Someone calls 911 and ambulances arrive and work to stabilize her. The police contact Paul who is home by now from the pub, he thought it odd that Kelly was not there when he arrived. He sees the ambulance lights from his porch, a little over a block away as he speaks to the police. When informed that it's Kelly, he drops everything and runs toward the scene. She is rushed to the hospital with severe injuries and passes away hours later.
Now in discussion with others it's always brushed off as a drunk driver or a tourist or just an accident. Please note I don't use the word accident because I don't think it was.
Here's why...
[Edit from the original] In the two years prior there were two other similar incidents involving a hit and run by a black SUV or truck in the same area of town The first caused minor injuries while the second caused broken limbs, the victims looked similar to Kelly. In my study of JTR I have learned the markers of escalation and that is what this seems like because the third incident resulted in death... Several months prior to Kelly's death there was another incident that was almost identical in a small town south of Traverse City. A lady was hit and dragged under the vehicle and the then dislodged by the driver and left to die in an empty lot.
[Original] Witnesses say the vehicle was a black truck or SUV... Paul said that Kelly knew to stay close to the curb and that there is plenty of room on that road for cars and bikes. If she was that close to the curb how and why did the truck get that close with at least hitting the curb. That road is residential and 25 mph. Though you can do damage a 25 I don't think the force or momentum is enough to do THAT much. The driver had to have felt the impact or at the very least running her over. Lastly and the one point that is the reason I believe this was calculated... the people who lived one the road could hear her screaming in their house set back from the road. This is the historic district so the houses are old and it's late at night. The part that is perplexing is why if the neighbors heard her WHY COULDNT THE DRIVER? Was he ignoring them? People have said maybe he had the radio on but screams like that pierce through.
Side note: I say "he" because if this was calculated it's likely a man.
This is all true, I've been to the scene. There have been no incidents since. It remains unsolved...