RSBM for focus
An admin post on Ben’s Find FB page:
“WHAT TO LOOK FOR:
1.
Footprints leading off a trail into a conspicuous location (into thick forest),
2.
Look near water sources (likely running, creeks, stream, rivers), will be very important as Ben would have needed water on many occasions,
3. **
In crevices, caves, near where land may have given out.
We believe that Ben would absolutely and without a doubt, make it home if he could.
We believe strongly that he has fallen and cannot physically get out.
It would have had to have been a place where the ground gave out and he couldn’t have seen this happening on his approach.
[SBM]
**There are still lots of
trails where again, we are looking for footprints off the trail and into the bush.
[SBM]” (BBM)
Find Ben Kilmer
While these are all excellent suggestions, I hope the searchers are also looking up, just in case (and my sincere apologies if I offend anyone reading; my only reason for mentioning this is to help find Ben) he decided to take his life by hanging.
I’m sure the trained SAR professionals and volunteers who are helping with the search are already aware, but I’m not so sure about the community volunteers.
Here is a case in which a missing woman’s body was eventually found hanging from a tree in a location that had been searched many times before:
“SAN ANTONIO — Autopsy results released Thursday for
Leanne M. Bearden concluded that she hanged herself with clothesline not far from her in-laws' Garden Ridge home from which she'd vanished Jan. 17.
The finding by Central Texas Autopsy of Lockhart backs the suicide conclusion that Garden Ridge Police Chief
Donna O'Conner announced Feb. 14. Bearden's body had been found the day before
, hanging from a mountain cedar tree in the neighborhood, which had been searched several times in the weeks that followed her disappearance.
‘As a result of that final autopsy report, the case has been closed,’ O'Conner said Thursday after reviewing the document.
She said the tree was in a dense bamboo thicket that prevented property owners who had been urged to inspect their acreage from seeing it.”
Autopsy finding of missing woman: suicide (BBM)
Unfortunately, it’s quite possible something similar happened here, especially with Ben being an electrician, he would probably have ready access to items such as electrical cords and cables.
Praying that Ben is found very soon.