Not sure why and I shudder to write it but my immediate thoughts on this were maybe something like a rope suggesting strangulation :-(
Sad as it is I'm so glad that person driving stopped to look....
Yeah possible, but I wouldn't think the cops would see a rope as clear evidence of murder, not when the remains are skeletal (even if they were more intact there'd be no way to say at a glance that the rope caused death, would need a proper autopsy) because strangulation with a rope doesn't leave any trace on bones (except maybe a broken or missing hyoid, and that just points towards strangulation in general, the presence of a rope could be coincidental, ie not involved in the death, could've been for tying up the victim etc).
Ugh hate that this discussion relates to a poor little kid.
Unusual turn of phrase: They were discovered by a motorist who then contacted police after being “drawn to something on the side of the road”.
http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/...ka-murray-mallee/story-fni6uo1m-1227443132484
OT, but reminds me of the Milat case, when a local man Bruce Pryor, who often gathered firewood from Belanglo, was prompted by all the news and the discovery of Caroline Clarke and Joanne Walters' remains, to go searching through the nearby bush in case there were more victims. He felt a 'pull' towards the place and spent much of his spare time looking through the bush and eventually
did find bones belonging to Deborah Everist. It was such an unusual story (ie how he came to be there, and find the bones) that he was heavily grilled by police who thought he could've been the killer (not sure if all this was in 'Catching Milat' recently, I never saw it, though I'd intended to).
