If Jackie ever heard the name "Haven Monahan" before the media and the police did, how did that happen? Did she get a text message all of a sudden from an unfamiliar number, from someone who identified himself as Haven Monahan? Did the text say something such as "We went to the same high school; you probably don't remember me"?
The University of Virginia's website lists its 2013-2014 on-campus undergraduate population as 14,898. Isn't that the sort of place that has large first-year classes, each of a hundred students or more, taught by graduate students? That's particularly true for classes such as the chemistry that people take during their first year when their goal is to be pre-med. Most people in those classes don't get to know most of their classmates, until later college years when the people who decide not to try to go to medical school have left the pre-med curriculum.
What Jackie would think strange about getting a text message from someone she didn't know who claimed to be in her chemistry class was how he got her number. She might then ask friends to check the mystery man out. If, though, one of those friends were pretending to be Haven Monahan, that would explain how "Haven" got her phone number.
Copyright, with noted exceptions, L. Kochman, April 6, 2015 @ 7:20 p.m.
