Howard Brown
02-23-2010, 04:44 PM
To compliment the ongoing threads related to Liz Stride, I thought it might be good to compile a list of potential reasons Stride was in front of the IWMEC on the night she was murdered. Any additional reasons you may have to share are greatly encouraged.
1. Stride was on the make that evening and actively pursuing a client. Any client.
---There happens to be a reference in the literature... which I would appreciate someone mentioning on the thread at some point, where a police constable stated that couples seldom were found traipsing Berner Street at the time of her murder---.
2. Stride was being used to conduct surveillence on someone at the IWMEC.
----This notion is currently being hashed out on another thread.
3. Stride was waiting for someone who she knew went down Berner Street at that time of evening for whatever reason.
---This explains her reluctance ( according to James Brown's statement ) to engage with one man's possible approach for sex.
4. Stride was waiting for someone she knew at that spot for a liason.
---As with the above, her rejection of one man that evening could mean she was waiting for someone special.
5. Stride was waiting in front of the IWMEC building for the security she may have felt it provided and for whatever reason you may suggest.
---Stride, for whatever reason, waited there at 40 Berner Street because the club may have given her a sense of security. Men going in and out of the club, noise from within, all this might have given Stride a feeling that she was safe at that spot to solicit or to wait for a particular man. With the atmosphere the way it was at the time on the street, no prostitute or woman could feel safe on their own. Perhaps this is why she chose to make her presence at the front of the club.
6. Stride was ill and sober and simply waiting for someone whom she met up with before..maybe at or outside the Queens Head earlier that day...or somewhere else she frequented...and a mutually arranged rendezvous was chosen. Bad choice.
7. Stride was waiting for anyone she knew to pass by for whatever reason.
8. Stride was not soliciting,period. Why she was there is anyone's guess.
1. Stride was on the make that evening and actively pursuing a client. Any client.
---There happens to be a reference in the literature... which I would appreciate someone mentioning on the thread at some point, where a police constable stated that couples seldom were found traipsing Berner Street at the time of her murder---.
2. Stride was being used to conduct surveillence on someone at the IWMEC.
----This notion is currently being hashed out on another thread.
3. Stride was waiting for someone who she knew went down Berner Street at that time of evening for whatever reason.
---This explains her reluctance ( according to James Brown's statement ) to engage with one man's possible approach for sex.
4. Stride was waiting for someone she knew at that spot for a liason.
---As with the above, her rejection of one man that evening could mean she was waiting for someone special.
5. Stride was waiting in front of the IWMEC building for the security she may have felt it provided and for whatever reason you may suggest.
---Stride, for whatever reason, waited there at 40 Berner Street because the club may have given her a sense of security. Men going in and out of the club, noise from within, all this might have given Stride a feeling that she was safe at that spot to solicit or to wait for a particular man. With the atmosphere the way it was at the time on the street, no prostitute or woman could feel safe on their own. Perhaps this is why she chose to make her presence at the front of the club.
6. Stride was ill and sober and simply waiting for someone whom she met up with before..maybe at or outside the Queens Head earlier that day...or somewhere else she frequented...and a mutually arranged rendezvous was chosen. Bad choice.
7. Stride was waiting for anyone she knew to pass by for whatever reason.
8. Stride was not soliciting,period. Why she was there is anyone's guess.