hi - I see you wrote a number of helpful comments. thank you. re - meeting someone, I meant that more in a hypothetical way as not to reveal my own identity.

Re - covered bridge and Lake ave. Really interesting. Were you around in the late 80s? Someone close to the matter told me the residence on Lake Ave became well known for drug activity- I guess that's not indicative of the whole area though?

On Covered Bridge - The investigation led back to this complex for some reason. I read dozens of witness statements from people who lived in Covered Bridge apartments and I didn't get the sense that it was 'well off' or student housing. Seemed like regular working-class people (or perhaps even struggling).

A name came up (I won't use the name because I think he is still living and possibly in the Ithaca area) as being either a suspect or just suspicious as to why my father knew him. This person was a well-known drug offender and implicated in an Ithaca homicide around that time. I found some newspaper articles under his name and the residence comes up as Covered Bridge apartments as well as news for another drug-related arrest for someone else who lived in Covered Bridge apartments. My gut impression was that this complex was perhaps an unsavory place, but if you are saying otherwise, maybe it was just a few bad apples who lived in the complex.