Erin Valenti, 33, chief executive of IT at Tinker Ventures, based in Salt Lake City, Utah, was found dead in the back seat of her rental car on a residential street in the quiet San Jose Almaden neighborhood on Saturday, five days after. as the police declared her missing.
The authorities have not yet determined the time of death and have not given any indication of how long she was in the car before they found her. A spokesman for the San Jose Police Department also declined to name the cause of death, citing an ongoing investigation.
Erin Valenti did not suffer from any mental illness, did not abuse alcohol and did not take drugs. She was due to turn 34 on Wednesday, and on Tuesday she was due to perform at the Utah ceremony where she was to receive the IT Woman of the Year award.
According to friends and acquaintances, nothing unusual happened on the day she disappeared. Erin met with a former Sand Hill Road co-worker who said she was looking for her rental Nissan Murano.
Then she called her parents twice. On the first call, she said that she had found a car, that it was running low on gas and that she would be coming home for Thanksgiving. But the second call seemed strange to her parents, because Erin told her mother:
"This is all a game, this is a thought experiment: we live in the Matrix."
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Erin's parents assure that their daughter was absolutely normal, that her voice was not changed and they did not attach any importance to this statement, taking it as a joke. But then Erin disappeared.
At first, no one paid attention to this, as everyone thought she was taking a vacation. But soon relatives and the police were involved in the search.
Moreover, Erin's friends, through their Facebook contacts, organized 1,500 locals to search the area, since neither Erin's phone nor the car's GPS data could be detected. It was only five days later that the police declared her missing, Erin's body was eventually found.
Editorial comment
The Dailymail message was placed in a criminal chronicle by the newspaper, so it did not immediately find the right readers, but when it got into their field of vision, the situation caused very big discussions on three, at least, conspiracy forums.
It's one thing when some heavily drunk teenager from Harlem talks about the Matrix, but it's another matter when an IT specialist tells his parents about this in his last call.
Opinions on this matter are expressed very different, ranging from "men in black" and ending with some CIA experiments, however, what lies behind all this, no one knows for certain. And, what is most surprising, neither the police, nor fifteen hundred volunteers, could not immediately find this Nissan, although they repeatedly combed the area where it was found.
And the beacon on the car was also turned off by a strange coincidence, although it is always on for rented cars and turning it off is a whole problem even for a specialist from a car service.
In general, all this is really very strange and perhaps Erin really somehow really reliably found out that everything around is such an evil game and that we actually live in the Matrix? For this, the Matrix immediately turned it off.