MrTT, if you'll look closely at the picture mahmoo attached, you'll see that the "shoulder" right at the Whiskey Bay exit is practically non-existent. It is probably less than half the width of a normal car. Plus, if the perp pulled over, he'd have to pull over into a very precise place to throw the bike into the water, because there's land under the exit too.
I think it *could* be done, but I also think it would be less dangerously and less chance of being seen if you just take the exit and drive down toward the boat ramps.
Oh, I can just betcha that LE got about a million silly tips for every one worth checking out. That is sure what happened in the DTL case, and I'm sure it happened here. However, the grapevine usually spreads the info beyond the LE and to the general public. For instance, to reference the DTL case again, we were hearing for weeks that the perp was dark skinned and possibly racially mixed......and LE wasn't even close to working on that angle yet.
It is just strange to me that we aren't hearing anything along the lines of "a curly haired guy named blahblahblah with a dragon tatoo who drives a chevy Z71 and works at blahblahblah did it. His daddy owns the blahblahblah business and his momma goes to church at St. Edmond's.His brother hangs out at the Pub and his sister is a student at UL" We haven't heard anything like this. Normally, we are hearing this kind of stuff, whether it is accurate or not. It's like there aren't even RUMORS going around right now! Very strange for Cajun country!
I really believe we aren't hearing LE release more info because they have SO LITTLE evidence that they have already released everything except for the very little they are holding back to confirm the suspect's story. IF they get a suspect.