yes, there is a slight slope downward from the curb line going back toward the woods.
There were lots of claims made that the remains site was waist deep in water and that was why the body was never seen/found/smelled there, that the area was not searched due to this water, etc. I got a lot of flack here for questioning that. But I couldn't see how the water could get waist deep at the remains site, just from looking at the site itself, I didn't see any deep depression there that could hold that much water, unless I was like totally looking in the wrong place, and judging from landmarks, etc, I didn't think I was looking in the wrong place.
The analysis of the water levels which was just released, if I'm reading it right, seems to say the remains site (Area A where the skull and lots of remains were for example) would not have been under more than 6 inches of water even when the water was at its highest point briefly (there would have been water briefly.) This makes sense to me because just going from what the area looked like, just visually it looks like if the water got much deeper than that in that place it would run off into the street.
At least I'd never heard reports that the street was flooded out/impassable or that the surrounding houses were flooded or anything like that, so I always doubted the "waist high" and similar claims about the water, and of course whatever amount of water there was wouldn't have been there the whole time.
I know what you mean, I think I recall some pictures too where you see investigators in a deeper area, IIRC.