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the spring 1999 semester was interior-space planning. She learned about the effects and value of proper lighting, use of space, and the power of walls.
    Margaret Collier, dean of the school’s design department, spoke highly of Aundria. “She loved school,” the dean praised. “Her teachers thought she was doing great.”
    Aundria made a positive impression on her coworkers as well. Since money was always tight, Aundria usually stayed employed to keep up with the bills for school and her duplex. Aundria turned her love of cars into a job working for the local Kragen Auto Parts in San Luis Obispo. Her auto knowledge,positive demeanor, and ability to communicate with total strangers proved to be a winning combination at the huge automotive repair superstore. Her coworker Robert Santos,who was also a classmate of hers from Cuesta College, sang her praises. He spoke highly of her intelligence, wit, and confidence.
    “She wasn’t afraid to speak her mind and tell you how she felt,” Santos recalled. “I think she was going to do good in life. I think if there was something she wanted, she would go get it.”
    Santos was surprised when Aundria quit her job at Kragenafter five months to go work for veterinarian James Waldsmith at the Equine Center in town. Her family, however, was not. They knew how much Aundria loved animals. For her, it was the dream scenario: this beautiful California girl, who loved the ocean and animals, working in a vet’s office and living in gorgeous San Luis Obispo.
    What more could she ask for?
    Unfortunately, the veterinarian’s assistant position did not work out for Aundria. Dr. Waldsmith let her go after only one month of employment. Aundria had shown up late to work far too many times in her short stay at the company. Dr. Waldsmith found her congenial yet unreliable.
    “She was a nice gal,” the doctor recalled. “The typical Cal Poly kid [she was a Cuesta College student] that shows up at our door.”
    Aundria would not let this setback throw her off course. She set out to get back her job at Kragen. Her former manager,Gil Luera, spoke with her just before she disappeared. Luera stated that Aundria had “just come back to reapply here when all this came down.” Luera also stated he was looking forward to giving her old job back to her.
    He never got the chance.

TEN
    Captain Bart Topham knew he only had one chance to keep the citizens of San Luis Obispo calm. After the third college coed disappearance in nearly three years, he needed to put a lid on this case immediately, before he had vigilante groups forming and citizens packing up their trucks and moving out. He called a press conference on March 15 to let everyone know that the police were on top of this latest missing-person case.
    Captain Topham wanted to make one point explicitly clear: “There is no evidence of a connection between this missing-personcase and any other at this time,” referring, of course, to the Kristin Smart 1996 disappearance and the Rachel Newhousedisappearance just four months earlier. The last thing the captain wanted was for the people of San Luis Obispo to be afraid to walk out in the streets at night for fear of a serial killer.
    The townsfolk did not believe Topham and they were scared.
    “It’s too weird for this to happen three times,” stated nineteen-year-old Cuesta College student Jodi Simonson. “It makes me nervous.”
    Some of the students tried to move on with their lives. Mandy Daniels, a twenty-year-old Cuesta College student, stated, “I take good precautions, but I also try not to let it alter my life.”
    Ralph Wessel, a resident of the nearby town of Cayucos, did not believe Topham for one second. “I think it’s the same person,” he stated with supreme confidence. “I know the policedon’t think there’s a connection, but it’s probably a serial killer after the same type of student.”
    Adrielle Ray, another Cuesta College student, also had littlefaith in the captain’s