Neil Stonechilds Last Lonely Walk

Both Google Maps and Bing Maps can easily be used to calculate both a direct walking route from 118 O’Regan Crescent (where a prowler matching Stonechild’s description was seen by four eyewitnesses shortly before midnight) and the field where Stonechild’s body was discovered four days later. They can also be used to calculate an indirect route from O’Regan Crescent to the field passing by 2213D Hanselman Avenue, where an unknown person triggered a perimeter alarm at 12:32 am, and the 51st Street overpass, where two witnesses observed a man matching Stonechild’s description sometime between 1 am and 2 am that night. The two routes overlap almost perfectly.

1. Snowberry Downs Apartments. 
   1. 11:56 pm: Hartwig and Senger encounter Jason Roy leaving the Snowberry Downs complex. He gives them a false name, Tracy Lee Horse. Ten years later, he will claim that Neil Stonechild was handcuffed in the back of their police cruiser, “bleeding profusely” from his face. He claims that Stonechild called to him by his nickname, “Jay”, but the two officers expressed no interest in whether he knew the prisoner, or why the prisoner was calling him by that name.
   2. 11:58 pm: Two minutes after releasing “Tracy Lee Horse”, Hartwig and Senger stop and question Bruce Genaille, Neil Stonechild’s cousin. Genaille will later testify that Hartwig and Senger were alone in the police cruiser and that the back seat was empty. 
2. 118 O’Regan Crescent: 11 minutes walk from Snowberry Downs Apartments (Bing Maps estimate)
   1. Two couples, the Nadeaus (Darlene and Wayne) and the Grigoroviches (Shelly and Ken) arrive at the Nadeaus’ home to find a man matching Stonechild’s description lurking in the driveway. Shelly Grigorovich chases him for a block in the opposite direction from Snowberry Downs, but he gives her the slip.
   2. Darlene Nadeau, a trained insurance investigator, gets a good look at the prowler when he almost trips over a bush in the driveway. She will later give a description that matches Neil Stonechild in both clothing and physical appearance.
   3. 11:56 pm: At the exact minute that Neil Stonechild is supposedly in the back of the SPS police cruiser, Shelly Grigorovich phones 911 to report the prowler.
3. 2213D Hanselman Avenue: 49 minutes walk from 118 O’Regan Crescent (Bing Maps estimate). ETA for a person walking: 12:46 am
   1. 12:32 am: A perimeter alarm is activated at 2213D Hanselman Avenue. This is consistent with someone trying a door in an attempt to gain entry. Neil’s mother will later say that breaking into an unoccupied building to take shelter from the cold is something that Neil has done successfully in the past.
4. 51st Street overpass at the Idylwild Service Road: 1 hour 12 minutes walk from 118 O’Regan Crescent (Bing Maps estimate). ETA for a person walking: 1:08 am
   1. Sometime between 1:00 and 2:00 am, a bank employee and his wife, driving north, observe an aboriginal male walking north, towards the area where Neil’s body will be discovered 4 days later. The man is approximately 5 and a half feet tall, less than 150 pounds, wearing an open jacket and a lumberjack shirt – an exact description of Neil Stonechild. 
5. Snow-covered field between 57th and 58th Streets: 4.7 miles from 118 O’Regan Crescent (Bing Maps estimate)

January 29, 1990 (4 days later): Neil’s body is found in the middle of a snow-covered field, just south of the Mitsubishi-Hitachi Building at 826 58th Street. There was only one set of footprints leading to the body, which indicated that Neil Stonechild had been trying to cross the field from south to north – perhaps in an attempt to reach the Mitsubishi-Hitachi Building and possible shelter.