sarx
Verified Expert/Professional in SAR and K9SAR
Given the conditions and the location 1-3 days is still a very fresh and easy trail. It wouldn't have even been a question.
Thanks, sarx! I knew I'd heard you use that term somewhere. Still learning over here!
Thank you, again, for all your help finding the missing! You and Oriah really deserve huge thanks. I don't think a lot of members understand everything you two do "behind the scenes" so to speak.
thanks for the answers about the dogs/purse, everyone. I, too, do not believe that Sierra intentionally dropped the bag and books in that location and I don't (at least 99% of me, doesn't) believe she is a runaway. I would hope that by NOT finding her scent in that area, it would lend strength to the abduction theory. I just can't figure out why the books/purse weren't just dumped in a trashcan....seems far less risky than pitching the stuff in a place you could be caught trespassing...then again, I'm not a criminal, nor do I think like one...I just find the purse location sort of like a 'staging', to get additional attention. What predator really wants MORE attention?
I lurk, rarely post, but have a question....when the purse and books were found, would the search dogs have been taken to that location? Would they have looked for Sierra's scent trail there? I imagine, if the dogs didn't alert in that location, then it's unlikely that Sierra was responsible for hiding the bag and books and was likely never there, with or without an abductor.
It is very odd. I was thinking about this before and the only thing I could come up with is that the trashcans may be in locations where one would find surveillance cameras (gas station, convenience store).
I really don't know. :waitasec:
Given the conditions and the location 1-3 days is still a very fresh and easy trail. It wouldn't have even been a question.
Maybe that area had been searched prior to when the bag was found? And so LE is thinking that the perp must have come back, which would make them possibly a local, who knows the area?
The building that the bag and books were found beside, wedged between the cactus is ON DEAD END ROAD.. so IMO there's no flying down the road away from the crime and whisking the bag out as some believe.. this is a dead end..
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So are you thinking that he pitched the cell phone out the window of the car on his way out the area with Sierra, took her someplace, stripped her, killed her, left her body in another location, and then came back through town on his way back home and dropped the bag of clothes off behind the cactus?
It is possible, if he did not notice the bag was still in his car until he came back thru...
The case map on the first post of this thread doesn't seem to have the purse location on it. Does anyone have the link to the map with the purse location included? I had it the other day, but I can't find it now. Thanks!
The building that the bag and books were found beside, wedged between the cactus is ON DEAD END ROAD.. so IMO there's no flying down the road away from the crime and whisking the bag out as some believe.. this is a dead end..
thanks for the answers about the dogs/purse, everyone. I, too, do not believe that Sierra intentionally dropped the bag and books in that location and I don't (at least 99% of me, doesn't) believe she is a runaway. I would hope that by NOT finding her scent in that area, it would lend strength to the abduction theory. I just can't figure out why the books/purse weren't just dumped in a trashcan....seems far less risky than pitching the stuff in a place you could be caught trespassing...then again, I'm not a criminal, nor do I think like one...I just find the purse location sort of like a 'staging', to get additional attention. What predator really wants MORE attention?
I have to say if she used the bag for clothes she didn't need to take to school, it is silly. There is no one saying she was planning on a sleepover. Marlene tells us she switches clothes with friends. Does that include bra and panties. Frankly, I can't understand why Marlene offered that up. I would think she would have thought it odd she had those things in a Juicy bag going to school.
The place to exhange clothes used to take place at the girls' homes...or is somebody going to tell me that's changed also? Now the generous girl delivers the clothes at school and gives her underwear also?
As a mother, I would be dumbfounded if my daughter's clothes and underwear were found and she is missing. Marlene did not say she was staying with another girl that night. There were no plans. There was no squad practice in San Jose. The mother wasn't concerned about the clothes. Instead she explains it by saying Sierra shares her clothing...okiedokiethen.
I am too old and out of touch, I suppose. I have a 21 yr old but this female behavior thing is too much for me. I am experiencing a whole new world....with this particular crime.
The building that the bag and books were found beside, wedged between the cactus is ON DEAD END ROAD.. so IMO there's no flying down the road away from the crime and whisking the bag out as some believe.. this is a dead end..