Mike Britton
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Hence, my sniffin' of a rat.
Am I to REALLY believe that circa 2017, 2 girls missing, last known place they were was at that bridge, and LE fails to secure the perimeter, leaving the search through the wee hours of the night to volunteers? Seriously???
The grass-roots effort to find the girls was expedited quickly, and IMO correctly carried out given the priorities of the moment. From what I know about abductions (which is more than I should), every second counts, statistically speaking.
It was customary in some places in the US even two years ago to assume people of a certain age (teenagers?) reported missing to be potential runaways. Hopefully this isn't still the case.
It's also my understanding the searchers didn't get as far down Deer Creek as the actual crime scene, and dogs weren't used until the next day. This means the crime scene was undisturbed—I hope. Securing the perimeter would have taken a lot of manpower, given the lay of the land, but some luck would have been nice.
It seems like the event was so out of character for the town that it got real very quickly for everyone. Stuff like that didn't happen often, and may never have happened in Delphi.