I hate to sound like a conspiracy theorist, but blaming the high-intensity lamps sounds like a focus-group result.
99.9% of people just need a reason to ignore this story. The problem is not that there is no explanation for her death, but that there is no reason for her death. The “senseless tragedy” hook makes the story stick in the public’s mind.
But if those nasty bright blue headlights can be blamed, then people can just safely ignore the story. People hate those damn things, and dislike the drivers who have them, because they are obnoxious. Not to say that she deserved to die because she had blue headlights... But if choosing blue headlights contributed to her death, well there is a certain amount of justice to that.
It supplies just a little bit of “why”, you see.
Of course it makes no sense. It is completely irrational, not to mention sociopathic. But that is the way this story goes. If you got two focus groups together, and told one that the car’s headlights ignited antifreeze and burned the driver to death, and told the other that a BMW M3’s high-intensity blue headlights ignited antifreeze and burned the driver to death, most people in the first group will reject the explanation and most people in the second group will accept it. Not only will they accept it, they’ll feel good about accepting it.
Stupid, I know. But what can I say, people are stupid.
This woman’s pulling out of some garage at 5 in the am. Suddenly the headlights spark the anti-freeze and burn the car up and, we assume but it isn’t clear, the driver?
Yes, that happens every day.
The tidbit about the victim having been knocked out in some fashion says it all.
For now, I really don’t think this is some kind of cover up.
As a True Crime afficiando and a speculator, I’d guess that this is some kind of lover/husband/wife crime. The early morn timeline is a clue. I’m not convinced that lobbyists must report to work around 6 in the am in DC.
They WOULD likely have to leave a lover’s house at the early hour. At which point an angry husband could be waiting to strike at his adultrous wife.
OR the lover and the victim had an argument, it got violent, he struck her over the head, perhaps killed her then, and had to figure out a way to dispose of the body.
It’s been apparent that this mishap did NOT happen at Ashley’s home...odd, at 5 am in the morn.
Welp my scenario is just a guess. But I don’t think that anybody’s covering this up. The release of the info about the victim’s body would NOT have happened if there was a huge coverup going on.
HOWEVER, just for conspiracy purposes, the DC police department could be leaking this info because they’re getting pressure from a mighty political force, such as the White House, just throwing it out there.
I mean, no autopsy report yet?
Intriguing crime...and make no mistake, it IS a crime.
People don’t burn up in their cars by pulling out of a garage. Antifreeze does not suddenly flare up to make us crispy critters. Those bright headlights are not known to be igniters of our vehicles.
Heh.