Lol
where did I get
birds from?! Maybe because I read it was a great place for bird watching! And the -ian like avian? Well I should not have been lazy and googled it...anyway learned something new today so thank you!
I’ve been trying to look at maps and sleuth some other location possibilities where someone could hide a body. Somewhere close to a place they should be where someone could leave their phone for an hour and go dispose of a body and come back. Someplace without a lot of people around and no cameras with lots of wilderness and water. Maybe someplace they have been before with Suzanne to ride mountain bikes? Today I saw something that brought Sand Creek Park to my attention and specifically that nature preserve trail. It’s in Aurora close to Denver (and Northrop) and in addition to the main gate entrance there is a little parking lot near the trail that is hidden from the road. First and foremost we all want Suzanne to be found and brought home to her family for a proper burial and closure if she is in fact deceased. But we also know that finding her remains would be a game changer and might lead to an arrest much sooner. I go back and forth between thinking she will never be found because she is hidden so well in the remote mountain wilderness or down a mine or may have been burned or worse - > to thinking maybe we are giving the perpetrator too much credit and maybe they were panicked and in a hurry and she was buried quickly or put into a body of water somewhere else away from the Maysville area. I hope BM’s truck movements can be tracked. For all we know LE could have already searched that park with scent dogs. And of course if SM was abducted and BM is innocent then looking for locations near Denver may be futile.
It IS a great place for bird watching. I only know the word because Husband decided to plant one in our yard (but with no creek). We're in one of those neighborhoods where people have dry creek landscaping - so we have that. But he wants birds, so...we have ash trees and if I'd permit it, he'd have cottonwood (like in Utah and some parts of CO).
The Morphews definitely live in one. The river was running at higher than average/but moderate flow on the day Suzanne was reported missing. Snow melt had started.
How long did this perpetrator have? If there was an actual bike ride, then only from around 10 am to 5:45 pm.
If there was no bike ride, then...since May 8 (since she was apparently seen on the 7th in town). Pretty sure his truck movements can be tracked - perhaps by more than one method. New methods arise every once in a while.
The river would have been loud-ish. Whoever did this may have known that, and it's possible (as some here have conjectured) that there were noises, perhaps a couple of loud noises - but no one would have heard except, perhaps that one neighbor. But doubtful anything in the house could be heard (or in the driveway - or even where the bike was apparently found). Only a super loud piercing noise (treble, like a scream) might have cut through. A single shot from a rifle could be confused for the crack of rocks in the spring run-off. It would probably cut through, but it's not going to sound like a human scream.
So no one heard either, as far as we know. Neighbor has talked a little, hasn't mentioned any noises. (The other neighbor is the one who heard noises near the construction site - I think).
As in Barbara Thomas's case, there was an opportunity for a crime that looked as if someone completely vanished. I think there's a chance that in both cases, someone took advantage of a situation. In Barbara's case, sound might have carried a great distance - but there was no one within miles. In Suzanne's case, her voice might have barely been audible from .1 mile away - due to distance and river.
I've always been surprised at the way creeks in Colorado push rocks and they make grinding, cracking sounds - it's lovely, really, but also makes a person aware how strong smallish rocks can be. My imagination starts to work overtime.
