Alice

Drug paraphernalia.

She didn't have residue of drugs on her.

She had eczema cream, for crying out loud.

She wasn't dressing like a lady of the night.

Many people saw her in these hotels.

She wasn't hiding the fact that she was talking to men, but none of it seemed in a romantic way.

There weren't droves of men coming in and out of her room for really minutes at a time, as you would expect if it were, say, the sex trade.

So the things we see about her don't seem to fit other types of criminal activity.

But her elusiveness, the fact that no one's been able to peg who she is, does fit the profile of someone who may be in these sorts of businesses and not wanted to be identified.

And then there's that the Isdale woman was in hiding.

So some people speculate that the Isdale woman was just running from her life.

Maybe she was escaping an abusive partner or some other problem at home.

This is a theory in a lot of our cases.

We're just on the other side of it, right?

We have all these cases of missing persons.

And one of the theories is always, well, did they really just run off and start a new life in a foreign country?

Well, we know that Norway is a foreign country for her very likely.

And so maybe we're just on the other side of it.

This is the escaped new identity.

Now, this would explain why she was hiding her identity, but it wouldn't explain her death.