ok folks, I just can't go along that they found Somer on Tuesday instead of Wed, or that they found her somewhere other than the landfill.
Sherriff Woods is talking about
Haleigh's case here:
"Woods, in Putnam County, said investigators searched the landfill as part of Haleigh's investigation as well. Such searches are routine parts of missing-child and suspected-abduction cases.
"I personally was inside a dumpster, searching that morning," Woods said. The "meticulous" landfill search came a little later, but that's because trash pickup in the area did not occur immediately after Haleigh was reported missing as it did in Somer's case," he said.
I read that as him saying that in Haleigh's case they were personally
able to search dumpsters prior to garbage pick up in Haleigh's case because they had more time - the garbage was not picked up as soon as it was in Somer's case.
In Somer's case, LE is clear that very soon after garbage pick up started Tuesday, they assigned LE to started following the trucks as they picked up dumpsters and they followed them to the changing station that day, and then to the landfill. They noted which truck picked up in which part of the neighborhood. They secured the landfill Tuesday night and searched on Wednesday - as each truck dumped its contents. Since they already knew where that truck had picked up - which part of the neighborhood, that gave them an immediate geographic advantage - it's possible that something about the contents surrounding her body could even have been the reason they searched the abandoned house. Maybe they found mail or identifying data about neighbors of the burned out house in close enough proximity to her remains that they thought the burned out house was a good place to process. This could be especially true since they had a guy working AT that house being apparently the last person to see her alive.
If they'd found her body still in the dumpster, still in OP (which I don't believe for a minute), they would have processed the area and there would have been a crime scene and scores of police and media, they may also have transported the entire dumpster to their crime lab like they did with the case of the woman who was found in a dumpster in FL earlier this year. Still that area would be covered with police and crime scene tape.
Also, I believe the paper said that earlier on Wednesday Somer's mother was still asking the abductor to bring her daughter back. Its inconceivable to me that if LE had found a body that appeared to be Somer's on Tuesday, that they would have kept that from the mother overnight. Early Wednesday afternoon, media said she hadn't been found yet and they were monitoring the search at the trash dump. Then when the body
was found Wednesday, they took photos of the ME's vehicle at the dump.
The Sherriff says he told the mother about the likelihood of the remains being Somer's at the time they were found, then called her to confirm Wednesday night (note - someone told me that they had confirmed the identity before the autopsy, and I said I couldn't remember, but you're right, reviewing media from then, it looks like this is true): "The sheriff said he had told the girl's mother, Diena Thompson, to prepare for the worst, and called her after receiving the news Wednesday night."
http://www.myfoxny.com/dpp/news/dpg_Somer_Thompson_Missing_Fla_Girl_Case_fc_20091022_4166280
I think they found the body when and where they said they did. I don't think they are making it up when they describe being at the landfill and seeing, "a child's lifeless legs," sticking up from the refuse, there, at the landfill. If they'd found her on Tues in a dumpster, there would have been huge police presence at that site, and the crime lab there processing the SITE, even if they took the dumpster to their place for processing.
It makes sense that Equusearch would still be searching Wed morning if they found her later on Wednesday as they said.
I don't see why LE would misinform the public about this.
