Light snow night
On a Thursday evening, a light snow lay over central Anne Arundel County. More snow, mixed with freezing rain, was falling through a post-twilight mist. At 7:30 p.m., Melissa, a 28-year-old kindergarten teacher — wife and mother of two young sons — walked from a physical fitness class at the Anne Arundel Community College into a night of Gothic terror. At the conclusion of the evening’s physical fitness class, Melissa went down to a locker room, where she put on a pair of blue jeans over her tights and leotard. She donned a pair of zippered boots and put on a suede jacket with a fleece lining. Carrying the shirt which she had worn to the gymnasium, she telephoned her husband at 7:25 p.m. to notify him, because of the icy road conditions, that she …