Taking a break from work for a quick observation.

[OilemFirchen]

Julie Swetnick asserts that these gang rape victims were "usually a girl that was especially vulnerable because she was alone at the party or shy". That comports with the M.O. of similar offenders, and, of likely greater import, it would explain why "nobody" seems to know or remember these girls. They were marks, partly, because of their anonymity.

My apologies for not being able to respond until this evening, and if another poster has already brought this up.

[lunatica]

1. Like all sexual predators they go after the vulnerable and insecure

This type of activity is as old as the hills. The only surprising thing about is that anyone is surprised by these things.

[fleur-de-lisa]

2. See this Vanity Fair article I posted in this thread:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211185752

In interviews with more than a dozen alumni from area schools who graduated between the mid-1970s and the early 2000s, I repeatedly heard stories of parties spiraling into debauchery, with drunken, unsupervised teenagers coupling off with various degrees of privacy. Because the students came from a handful of schools, it was not uncommon for the party’s host to be a stranger. Indeed, many of the people I spoke with said they couldn’t necessarily pinpoint a particular house or give an address. “I remember my parents would say, ‘Whose party are you going to?’ And I’d say, ‘I have no idea,’” the Holton alumni who graduated in ’88 told me. “You’d just drive there and look for all the cars.” Another Holton alum, who was on the cheerleading squad with Ford, told me that the squad’s captains warned them not to go anywhere without two other people, and that if they were alone and drunk with local boys, the boys would say something had happened, whether it did or not. “This was like an organized sport,” she recalled.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/09/holton-arms-alumnae-ford-accusations-kavanaugh

[OilemFirchen]

4. That makes sense as well.

While my group of friends weren't "partiers" in high school (we generally met as a clique at one member's house), I did go to parties well into adulthood hosted by individuals I didn't know and surrounded by the same. I even hosted numerous parties at my own house, attended by more people that I didn't know than those that I did.

Not at all surprised that these women were "unknown", notwithstanding the possibility that some of these "friends" are simply lying.

[3catwoman3]

3. A very cogent observation.

I haven't seen that analysis here in any of the many posts I have read, but can't read them all so might have missed something.