Yes, that is an absurd linkage, but not because a paradox exists. The absurdity exists from the relocation of the supposed find of her cell and/or SIM card to her college.
If I understand correctly, she went to school in Lexington at the Tennessee Technology Center. The supposed cell-phone find was N of Parsons, resulting from a search N of Parsons (logical place to be searching). The location descriptions included Eaton Plant off Highway 641, Kolpack, Highway 69, the concrete property (rock quarry), and 100 Eaton St, and its instructive that ALL of those use different terminology to point to essentially the same "wide busy spot in a country road" area - an area clustered around the rock quarry and refrigeration plant that together probably employ quite a few in the area.
None of that is near, contiguous, or a somehow-related location to Tennessee Technology Center sited 25 minutes away. Nor would there have been any reason for a rural search team to be combing the city of Lexington and then stumble upon her cell phone and/or SIM card, whereas there was every reason for them to be searching a rock quarry and its environs for a missing person.
Logically as well as based on the tenor of the various reports, any idea that the search team was at her college can obviously be nothing more than someone's mistake in telling, reading, or reporting, and a quick comparative analysis would and should have readily discarded it long ago for the obvious error.
My opinions only, no facts here:
No specific complaints here to your much-appreciated response, although you may be confusing the Lexington Extension Center (i.e. the Tennessee College of Applied Technology) at 230 South Broad, Lexington, TN 38351 with its many satellite (off-campus) locations, including the Parsons-Decatur County Instructional Service Center (and Practical Nursing Facility where Holly attended) at 975 Tennessee Avenue, North Parsons, TN, 38363 (see
http://www.tcatjackson.edu/campus-sites). This location is about 1.5 miles north of Parsons. But I am not here to quibble about mere details of geography. Consider the individual post below from my detailed timeline about the cell phone evidence:
APRIL 23 TO APRIL 24, 2011
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(?This search included the area? that has been variously described as “Holladay Road, Holliday Road, Highway 69, Eaton Plant off Highway 641, Kolpack, the Tennessee Technology Center where Holly attended school, and the Tri-County Concrete property at 100 Eaton St.” This search location could have been ?based upon a ping or call from the perpetrator’s cell phone or a ping from Holly’s cell phone?, but there is a news report that it was ?based upon a phoned-in-tip?. Anyway, this should be where the so-called “significant find” or “Easter evidence” was made). (Early reports and internet chat described ?a “card”, even a hotel door passkey card, and later rumors suggest either a SIM card or cell phone or both?). (?A student ID card? has also been rumored). (The timing and wording of early news reports suggest either the 23rd or the 24th as the discovery date and that a “singular item” was found). (?It was reported that the police backtracked and later said that this evidence might not be related to the case?). (?It is more recently claimed by bloggers that this item WAS Holly’s cellphone?). (?It is even more recently claimed that the cell phone and its SIM card were found on opposite sides of the highway around the above-described location?). (? Most recently it is claimed by private investigators that a cell phone was found in grass near a culvert or in a culvert and that the SIM card was found about a mile away and/or across the road?- BEWARE! THIS LAST CLAIM MAY HAVE BEEN DISCREDITED BY THE TBI).
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There clearly is a lot of "white noise" regarding the exact location of the cell phone evidence. This is yet another reason why I worry about devoting a post towards the analysis of this supposed evidence. BUT, if this evidence actually exists, near-to 975 Tennessee Avenue, North Parsons, TN, 38363, then something illogical is afoot. There would be a quandary, dilemma, contradiction, inconsistency, paradox, incongruity, or a conundrum. But alternately, it could represent a paradigm, an exemplar template; something so obviously-predictable that we fail to recognize it.
Sleuth On!