Did they ever say why the two tourists were at the housing project at 3 in the morning? Did they get lost?
Ghetto Tours Inc offers the absolute worst times to visit the absolute worst places in America!
They were probably looking for drugs, I would think. Or they got drunk and took a wrong turn or two.
The most recent theory I’ve seen is that they were walking from a bar to a near-by IHOP restaurant when the “youth” kidnapped them at gunpoint and took them to a location ~100 yards from his own home...