I think her phone was placed on the bench and the scene set up. Not a random attack but a thought out plan.
Someone whom wouldve known about her meeting. Otherwise likely they wouldve turned the phone off and flung it in the water after seeing her on it.
We have been told very little about her situation at that moment of going missinh.
we know this much released
She works in mortgage sector and soon getting her personal mortgage sorted and had a work conference call she was on. Mic off. Camera off. Convienient. She perhaps at the moment of attack wouldve attempted to press on mic or camera or throw her phone in a frenzy etc.
Convienient for a random attacker not to take phone he wouldve saw her talking on. Fear of being heard, seen on a camera phone etc. A random wouldnt know she had a muted phone.
Grab and run or fling in river in a panic. But its too clean a crime scene to seem legit.
So Im thinking its a set scene to deflect on where she was really taken perhaps on another route entirely? It does seem it would need an aquaintance a tight plan like this.
So more than one? Two? Friends?
maybe both something to gain?
Or maybe one hired someone for this well executed crime scene?
Horrifying to think if the worse case scenario
she has children too