A Murderess Among Us?

Kelly and I being the studious college students we are decided to go to Barnes & Noble tonight to study/do homework. So we pull up into a parking spot behind a big white van. There is a woman standing with the passenger side open, holding a patchy, mangy, apparently bloody, and VERY limp dog. We assume this dog is dead, because upon this sight there is really no other assumption you can make.

Given this situation is a little awkward, we try to go about getting out of the car and getting our books to head into the store as nonchalantly as possible. Unfortunately, this woman (who might I add is dressed as if she's straight out of one of those cults seen on the cover of People Magazine from time to time) stops whatever she is doing and stares at us until we walk into the store. Now, correct me if I'm wrong... but I don't think WE were the ones worthy of a good stare-down.

Shortly after we get settled in the Barnes & Noble cafe the woman comes in and sits down at a table and proceeds to read magazines, browse the internet, and check her e-mail (Or maybe e-mail some of her friends about her new dead dog). We're in Barnes for approximately an hour, as is she, all the while the dead dog seemingly decomposing in her van.

As we get up to leave, we notice a landscaping truck has pulled up NEXT to the van. The man, who is dressed nicely and carefully and slowly getting out so as to not hit the van with his truck door, stops mid way through this process and begins to stare into the van window. He then OPENS the van door, looks in for a while, then shuts it and goes into the store to sit in the cafe with the woman who brought said dead dog to the parking lot in the first place.

Now, Kelly and I have yet to come up with ANY plausible explanation for this story.

Maybe it's the woman's dog who recently died? Still doesn't explain why she was awkwardly holding it in the BARNES AND NOBLE PARKING LOT.

Maybe she ran it over on the way? That would explain if she were to be holding it on the side of a highway, but not IN THE BARNES AND NOBLE PARKING LOT.

We're still trying to figure out what the HELL could possibly be the explanation for this. For now we're just going to assume the woman kidnapped and killed the dog and was trying to stash it in her van before some unassuming passerby (Que Alex and Kelly) came her way.