A local woman missing- Mary Kubica

was looking at was human—that they were college students heading
home from the bars. It was after one. The timing felt right,” she says.
Bars in town close at one o’clock during the week. There is
student housing, both off-campus housing and residence halls, just
blocks from our home. It’s entirely possible that whoever Cassandra
saw that night were overserved college students heading home from
a night at the bar—in which case they were most likely doing
something stupid but harmless that didn’t require intervention by the
police. I probably wouldn’t have called the police, either.
“Did you get a good look at them? Do you know what they look
like?”
She shakes her head. “It was so dark.”
“What were they doing?” I ask. “Could you tell?”
“I couldn’t,” she says. “But whatever it was, it didn’t last long.”
“How long?”
“I don’t know for sure,” she says. “Arlo had me distracted. He was
all worked up, totally inconsolable that night. I was worried about him
waking Piper, and then having to deal with two crying kids in the
middle of the night. I thought about opening the window a crack to
see if I could hear something, but with Arlo crying,” she says, “it
would have had the adverse effect. He would have just scared them
away. I should have called the police. Or, at the very least, thought to
tell Josh and Meredith about it the next day.”
“Why would you?” Bea asks, trying to buoy Cassandra up. “Drunk
college kids is hardly news. They probably stopped to take a pee on
the lawn.”
“But what if it wasn’t just drunk college kids?” she asks.
“Listen,” Bea says, reaching out to lay a reassuring hand on
Cassandra’s arm. “Don’t beat yourself up about it. The police will be
at the Dickeys today. I’ll talk to them. Maybe someone on the block
has a home security system they can pull. Video surveillance.”
I tell her, “That’s a good idea, Bea.”
I don’t know that any of our neighbors have video surveillance on
their homes. Even if they do, I don’t know how much storage those
cameras have. I don’t know if they keep footage for weeks, or if it’s
the kind of thing that disappears after a day or two. But it’s worth a