LOL I was typing and got my nose caught in the door of the last thread!
Here is what I typed out:
FWIW, and this is just my opinion and from having not only lived in the desert but having loved it when I did and we got out an explored several times a week, or went hiking in designated areas.
Again this is just my way of explaining to those that are trying to get a mental picture of a wash.
A wash is the path of least resistance that water will take as it courses down the elevated areas to the lower. The desert gets all their rain (usually) in a time span of about 2 months (sometimes 3). Meaning---for example: El Paso gets about 8 inches of rain a year. That rain arrives for the most part within a one month time period. The earth as in any desert is baked hard, so hard that it can't absorb rain, it runs off.
I have found a wash to be easier to navigate if the terrain gets too rough and rocky. Just walk down into the wash and you can get further quicker. An adult could but I have my doubts about a child Sylar's age. It can be easier for an adult sized person to walk the wash and navigate the large rocks (sometimes boulder sized) that are in the bottom of the wash.
Could an adult have walked the wash to a point outside of the search area that came later within the time frame of Sylar being missing and then reported missing?
Yes IMHO. Without any problem and have returned too.
What about concealment? I saw in one of the videos above that Sylar's bones were described as having been found scattered. I don't know how scattered they were. I have to assume that he could have been concealed by placing him on the ground and rocks placed over him. But again I don't know how he was concealed.
In the desert, the power of rain almost always ends with flash flooding. Incrediable force of nature. JMHO.
HTH anyone trying to get a mental picture.
This is a little morbid, and I apologize if I offend anyone, because I really don't intend to, but to whom are the remains released for burial? CN or TP? Not sure what the legalities are with a situation such as this and was curious.
More than likely CN. There wasn't a paper trail for the alleged adoption of Sylar by CP(TP). CN would have custody rights IMHO.
It's not a morbid question. It's a valid legal question about custody of remains.
Welcome to WS BTW :balloons:
That's what I suspect would legally be the case as well. I had just thought I'd read that she turned Sylar over to TP when he was just an infant and it seems weird (for lack of a better term) for her to be the person this responsibility would fall upon as she hasn't really ever taken any responsibility for him. Not judging, just stating the facts as I know them. On the other hand, can't see that remains would be released to TP because of the lack of a paper trail as you've mentioned. Just a most bizarre and complicated set of circumstances.
Thanks for the warm welcome!! I just stumbled upon this website over the past week and I am addicted!! Been following the KH case here too.
(my comment: I bet they are, a notarized piece of paper won't hold in court JMHO, which is what CN and CP(TP) say they have)Authorities still are looking into custodial issues involving Sylar, Priem and Sylar's biological mother, Charity Newton.
In a phone interview last week, Newton told The Associated Press she was pregnant with Sylar when she met Priem through Priem's sister Sandra Shoemake.
Newton said she was "messed up" back then and knew she couldn't take care of her son, so she considered having Shoemake adopt him. She ended up having a dispute with Shoemake and giving temporary custody to Priem instead, according to Newton and a Flagstaff police report from 2008.
Newton declined to comment on the investigation, saying authorities had asked her not to.
According to a police report, authorities visited Priem's home in January to look into what was determined to be an unfounded report of child neglect regarding Sylar. At the time, Priem said Newton had given her full custody of Sylar 1 1/2 years earlier. Priem said she hadn't heard from Newton since, the report said.
Authorities said they have found no paper trail of adoption proceedings involving Priem and Sylar.
Police reports show Newton had at least two other children one of whom tested positive for marijuana in 2004 while a newborn. Newton's rights to another child were severed, and the child was considered a ward of the court, according to a 2004 police report. The report also noted Newton had a history of substance abuse and mental health problems.
LOL I was typing and got my nose caught in the door of the last thread!
Here is what I typed out:
FWIW, and this is just my opinion and from having not only lived in the desert but having loved it when I did and we got out an explored several times a week, or went hiking in designated areas.
Again this is just my way of explaining to those that are trying to get a mental picture of a wash.
A wash is the path of least resistance that water will take as it courses down the elevated areas to the lower. The desert gets all their rain (usually) in a time span of about 2 months (sometimes 3). Meaning---for example: El Paso gets about 8 inches of rain a year. That rain arrives for the most part within a one month time period. The earth as in any desert is baked hard, so hard that it can't absorb rain, it runs off.
I have found a wash to be easier to navigate if the terrain gets too rough and rocky. Just walk down into the wash and you can get further quicker. An adult could but I have my doubts about a child Sylar's age. It can be easier for an adult sized person to walk the wash and navigate the large rocks (sometimes boulder sized) that are in the bottom of the wash.
Could an adult have walked the wash to a point outside of the search area that came later within the time frame of Sylar being missing and then reported missing?
Yes IMHO. Without any problem and have returned too.
What about concealment? I saw in one of the videos above that Sylar's bones were described as having been found scattered. I don't know how scattered they were. I have to assume that he could have been concealed by placing him on the ground and rocks placed over him. But again I don't know how he was concealed.
In the desert, the power of rain almost always ends with flash flooding. Incrediable force of nature. JMHO.
HTH anyone trying to get a mental picture.
That's what I suspect would legally be the case as well. I had just thought I'd read that she turned Sylar over to TP when he was just an infant and it seems weird (for lack of a better term) for her to be the person this responsibility would fall upon as she hasn't really ever taken any responsibility for him. Not judging, just stating the facts as I know them. On the other hand, can't see that remains would be released to TP because of the lack of a paper trail as you've mentioned. Just a most bizarre and complicated set of circumstances.
Thanks for the warm welcome!! I just stumbled upon this website over the past week and I am addicted!! Been following the KH case here too.
I again apologize for this morbid question, but I just read an article that said remains were "scattered." Is this indicative of post-mortem dismemberment or typical based on the decomp that would have transpired over the last several weeks?
Animal activity also would account for scattered remains
I sinecerely hope LE can figure out who to charge and quickly, if this is a criminal death. Too many adults are going unpunished in other cases due to lack of evidence and refusal to confess (if guilty.)