I have confirmed that Karen Solomon shot herself at 12:05 AM on August 19, as the audio of the gun firing was picked up on a surveillance home video on Fairlawn Drive (off of June Street). Dogs traced her to the edge of Coes Pond by Ken Chins, where they found one sandal on the shore and one in the water. She could not have walked around to the boardwalk that I traveled on yesterday because multiple surveillance cameras would've picked her up. This means she swam or walked across the water, depending how deep it is, around 6 AM with a gun. She likely then walked barefoot through the closed Knights of Columbus, towards the Clark University softball field, entered the trails leading to Fairlawn hospital, where she walked along the treeline and hid for 18 hours in a thick but small wooded area separating Fairlawn Drive from Fairlawn hospital. Eventually without any food and likely being eaten by bugs it all became too much and she ended it. After going to the location of where her body was discovered by 2 Fairlawn employees on August 24, there is no way they found her while they were going for a walk. They had to have been tipped off by the smell and walked towards it through the thick.
More footage from yesterday’s field trip. Karen Solomon sat in this ditch for 18 hours barefoot before she decided to end her life.