Attack #9: Canal Walk: The path that the offender took the victim from her house and into the creekbed can be confusing to those viewing the area from a modern lens. The best summary of this actually comes from DBW, a researcher whose girlfriend lived on the street at the time and who has researched the attack extensively through primary sources and other resources:

He led here from the house at the corner of Greenleaf and Sea Shell Court (house fronted Greenleaf and had a Greenleaf address) into their backyard, stepped over a short rail-type fence (maybe two feet tall) into the neighbor's back yard, and a short distance to the cement-lined creek bed. He actually took her under the bridge and a ways WEST of Dewey where there were houses on either side of the creek. However, most of these houses had back fences and house owners paid little attention to the creek itself as there were often kids and others moving through there. The creeksides themselves were pretty overgrown at the time as well. The area where the creek turns north on the East wide of Dewey drive, while being open fields, was actually much more visible from a pretty heavily traveled Dewey Drive than ducking under the bridge. The water was quite shallow, only a few inches in most places unless it was raining, and did not cover the entire creek bed in most places. It was a bit more heavy in vegetation along the banks on the other side of the Dewey Dr. bridge, but not overly so, with an occasional tree (the willow tree where he took the victim, for example).

It was possible to go under the bridge without crawling, but one would have to bend over. The victims jeans were (besides being ruined by being cut off of her with a knife) very damaged in the knees and she was pretty scraped and cut from being dragged down some portions of the cement creek bed - he was NOT gentle by any means. The willow tree was on the other side of Dewey Drive from her house. Going under the bridge on Dewey was actually a less visible route than going the other direction because the creek takes a sharp turn and runs parallel to, and is quite visible from, Dewey Drive.