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Nearly a year after the brutal killing of Bridget Lynn Gereen, investigators for the Galveston County Sheriff's

office remained frustrated at the lack of solid leads.

Within a couple weeks of the 28- old legal secretary's body being found at the water's edge of Crystal Beach, Texas, around only 100 yards from where she was last seen alive, the department announced a huge development.

Someone had come forward with information.

The night of the terrible crime, at around midnight on July 15, 2007, a group of witnesses

sitting water-side at a small bonfire noticed a woman walking close by. A small or medium sized dark colored SUV pulled up next to her,

blocking the witness's view. Between the sand and the vehicle's undercarriage, they could see feet and legs, and whatever was happening appeared to be some sort of confrontation.

The woman walked away, moving toward the beach.

And when she got about 50 feet from it, the SUV again pulled up beside her.

Witnesses heard a woman's scream and again saw something happening behind the dark-colored vehicle.

Like before, they could make out legs and shadows moving around on the other side, but that's

it.

The SUV sped off and the woman was gone.

Later these witnesses saw the same vehicle speeding back past them from the direction in which it had originally driven off.

Before news came out about Bridget Geeron's violent sexual assault and murder, the witnesses

didn't think what they saw was anything more than some sort of domestic

squabble, perhaps an alcohol-fueled fight that had gotten out of hand. After all, they couldn't see if the woman ended up getting into the dark-colored SUV of her own free will, or if she was forced.

It was

abducted.

either way she was found on the beach the next morning,

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