This is an aerial view of the crime scene, Truman Road and I-435 at the bottom. East is at top, North is to the the left. The numbers mark points of interest, mostly regarding Byron Case's alibi to police, and are described below.
  1. The William Rockhill Nelson Mausoleum in Mt. Washington Cemetery, where Byron Case originally directed Kelly Moffett to ask Anastasia to meet them, and where they later returned with her. They were spotted by the cemetery's caretaker, and moved on from there. The question is, why did they return to this out-of-the-way spot, where they had earlier asked her to meet them?

  2. The back entrance to Lincoln Cemetery, off of Truman Road. This is the road that Justin Bruton drove up into Lincoln, and is also the path that Anastasia would have had to have walked if she had gotten out of Bruton's car as per Case's alibi. It was three hundred feet in the wrong direction from her home, up a fairly steep incline, and the road to the cemetery (the narrow path going back east) is extremely difficult to spot from Truman Road in daylight, due to the trees (dark green) that are between it and the lower road, and virtually impossible to see in twilight, as would have been the situation per Case's alibi. It was a key component of Case's alibi that Anastasia had to voluntarily take this path, but there is no logical or reasonable explanation for why she might have done so.

  3. The Killing Field. This is where Byron Case shot and killed Anastasia WitbolsFeugen. The red mark shows where Anastasia's body was found, and Justin Bruton's car was on the road to the right of the mark.

  4. Front entrance of Lincoln Cemetery. This is where Justin Bruton's car, driven by Byron Case, exited the cemetery, and headed south (right) toward Truman Road.

  5. Truman Road and Stark. This is where the car got back onto Truman Road and headed east (down) toward Justin Bruton's condo. It is also the spot where Justin Bruton told Anastasia's family (when he called them that night) where she had gotten out. Byron Case also told the same story to a friend a day or two after that, though he maintained a different location later to police. Note that this exit point would have meant that Anastasia would have had to have walked further away from her home in order to have ended up at the cemetery.

  6. This is the spot where Case and Moffett claimed to police that Anastasia had gotten out of the car and stormed away, apparently into clutches of a random killer. It is approximately a quarter-mile (two city blocks) to the road leading to Lincoln's back entrance (2), and another quarter-mile to the intersection of Truman and Stark(5).

  7. Don Rand, a mechanic at the Amoco station, testified that he saw an attractive medium-height girl (about 5'7" or so, according to his statement) get out of an eastbound car on the south side of Truman Road and angrily walk away from it on the same night that Anastasia was murdered; his testimony was used by Case to try to prove his alibi. Under cross-examination, Rand was forced to admit that he had told police the day after the murder that he did not see the woman talking to anyone, and that he could not tell whether or not she was in any way upset.

    In short, Case's alibi would have required Rand to have seen an attractive, noticably short woman angrily storm away from a westbound car on the other side of the road. What Rand finally admitted to seeing was an attractive, average-height woman walk away from an eastbound vehicle, with no indication as to having been in any sort of argument.

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