Sera . Sera emily, as investigators try to solve this murder, residents continue to be anxious and some are coming forward and speaking up your they are questioning why the community was not alerted sooner the young woman had gone missing. It has been a little over a week since 27yearold Vanessa Marcotte went for a run on brooks station road, not far from her mothers home around 1 p. M. Last sunday. When she did not return home, her family reported her missing. At 8 05 pm, the towns code red alert system sent a recorded message to residents to be on the lookout. Marcottes body was found in the dense woods off the road at 8 20, the victim of a homicide. We didnt get a code red until 8 00. We have code reds for bears, for detours, but we didnt get a sera longtime resident ed carlson says many people in princeton want to know when police were alerted to vanessas disappearance, and why the phone alert did not go out sooner. And i know some people would have gotten into their cars and gone