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I just want to be sure that I understand your question. When you refer to the recovery effort costing less 5 months earlier, are you referring to investigative man hours versus the actual cost of the physical recovery?
I am still trying to wrap my mind around the events that led to the crash, as well as why it took so long to locate the Jeep. I keep feeling like they knew just where to look, but if that's true...why did it take so long?
I was referring to both- man hours (and apparently some woman hours also
) and the actual recovery of the Jeep.
If Gail had been recovered shortly after the accident, then it seems to me there would have been little need for the extensive expenditure needed to process a possible crime and/or crime scene- nor the need for the expenditure associated with advanced forensics.
(This, btw, in NO way means I think full and complete efforts should not be expended for the recovery of accident victims- because every victim deserves recovery in as swift a manner as possible- whether victim of an accident, mother nature, a suicide, a murder, a disaster.)
So I'm not begrudging the money spent on the investigation- just wondering ... if/why it was not 'spent' in May?
I, too, feel like Gail's location may have been known earlier.
So was the search effort possibly perceived by LE as an issue similar to some other rescue/recovery efforts of persons who go missing under dangerous situations they have been advised against- such as extreme sports players who disregard safety warnings? Or runaway brides who disappear purposefully, negligent and unaware of the SAR cost that may be incured by LE?
I don't know many LEO's who would have a last seen, a last phone conversation, a last ping, no bank acct activity, a missing vehicle...and not think- hmm, well something probably happened to this individual very shortly after they disappeared. So what's that radius?
Why does it seem that realization took so long? And why was the vehicle spotted
that first day and only then recovered?
I guess it just doesn't make a lot of sense to me.
I will wait for the final report- but it's a head scratcher, for sure.