It’s a mystery what happened that night, between 10:06 p.m. and 10:26 p.m.
Liz Hamel was out celebrating Valentine’s Day with her roommates and friends at a popular Isla Vista restaurant. The 18-year-old UCSB freshman was in a good mood, as she always seemed to be, when she left the noodle bar with a young man around her age at 10:06 p.m.
But by 10:26, something had gone terribly wrong. That’s when Hamel was found on the sidewalk, nearly lifeless, at the foot of the San Rafael Mountain Cluster, a UCSB on-campus dorm…