Samantha Kaye Blomberg Maher, 22, left for a morning class at Boise State University on July 6, 2000, walking along the Boise Greenbelt through Julia Davis Park in Ada County. Around 10:15 a.m. she was confronted at gunpoint, forced into her own car, and abducted. The assailant carried a .22 Ruger and had recently obtained handcuffs, latex gloves, and maps, details later used at trial to show premeditation.

After the abduction Samantha was sexually assaulted and shot in the head; her body was hidden in a concrete drainage tank, prompting a homicide investigation. Detectives identified and arrested Darrell Edward Payne, who was tried in Ada County, convicted by a jury of first-degree murder, kidnapping, rape, and robbery, and originally sentenced to death in 2002. The Idaho Supreme Court later vacated that sentence and ordered a new penalty phase; a jury again returned a death sentence in March 2010. Payne died in custody on July 9, 2015, after a long illness. Public memorials and news accounts record Samantha’s death as July 6, 2000, and place the crime along the riverside corridor of the Greenbelt.

Did anyone who walked the Greenbelt in July 2000 see anything that could help fill gaps in the timeline that day?