Spent a good part of today on Welsh Mountain. Lots of territory to cover and a ton of egress points. And that's just the nature preserve. Got some pictures I will post later. Mostly "Recon" today. Looking for landmark features, egress points and trails you could navigate in low light conditions. Also checked potential parking spots.
Spent a good part of today on Welsh Mountain. Lots of territory to cover and a ton of egress points. And that's just the nature preserve. Got some pictures I will post later. Mostly "Recon" today. Looking for landmark features, egress points and trails you could navigate in low light conditions. Also checked potential parking spots.
Any news on what might have happened in court - IF there was a hearing?
TIA! I'm just getting very old articles over here....
Entry and exit points that a car can park in or near. I wanted to figure out if he could drive a car up one or more of them. Only two are large enough and they are closed off with a bar or cable. He would have had to carry her remains into the preserve, if that's where she is.Gosh, fabulous that you could do this. "Egress points" mean exit points from the area in question? Forgive my ignorance.
Thank you so very much. It's great to have experts like yourself dedicate to her case.Still trying to get the pictures to upload. I noted a large number of surveyor tape markers in various colors on branches and some white direction arrows on the ground. The arrows might be from a trail ride or trail run. Woods are open with good visibility but there is a significant layer of leaves.
Thank you so much for looking for Miss Linda, Trackergd!Still trying to get the pictures to upload. I noted a large number of surveyor tape markers in various colors on branches and some white direction arrows on the ground. The arrows might be from a trail ride or trail run. Woods are open with good visibility but there is a significant layer of leaves.
Having now walked in the terrain and conditions, my opinion is that it would take a massive organized grid search operation to cover the mountain. Problem is that I don't know what the SAR Team did or where they searched. I also don't know what area the phone pinged in. Only LE knows that. As a SAR Manager, one of the first things you do is attempt to narrow the search area as much as possible to conserve resources and speed up the operation. Another option would be to use an eleven person team and put one person on the trail and the others inline, five to a side spaced apart and walk all the trails keeping good GPS tracking to know what trails you have covered. If JS had carried a body over his shoulder, it could not have been very far and only far enough off a trail to reduce the probability of it being seen. That ground would have required a sturdy shovel and mattock to dig through the root material. No way he was carrying her and the tools. To carry her into the woods, then go back for the tools would require one or more landmarks that would put him back in the same spot without getting lost, notably in lower light conditions. Once you go off trail, it is very easy to trip and fall on rocks and roots under the leaf litter layer. Also, Welsh Mountain is not only the nature preserve, there is a lot of other land on that mountain that is private. At least one water feature, a quarry, homes and a shooting range. Really hampers our WS group efforts if we have no cell ping location.
Thank you for this description of the terrain. What are your thoughts on whether he might choose a low lying wash area that is already somewhat eroded, place her and then cover her? Do you know if dogs have been used? If they covered that area with cadaver dogs, shouldn't they find her? I wonder if JS had someone helping him who came to Welsh Mountain a day or so later, collected her, and relocated her to another area? If so, pings on JS's phone will be meaningless. I feel such empathy for Linda's family. They are living a nightmare.