Fair point, I keep forgetting how much of the land out there is private as well.
It was just daunting to be in the middle of it and equate that massive amount of wooded space with only 35 SAR members.
I think dogs and drones help too, but if JM was careful and found a really good spot, the search crews would really have to get lucky. What kind of search was done when MH disappeared? Did they even come close to where she was found?
A lot of times when the terrain is not easily searched and there is so much of it, or the perp went out of area, beyond expectation, the body is not found until later and by happenchance. Sometimes it never is.
I'm hoping that JM was seen early in the morning on Saturday, early enough to mean he could not have gone that far and back, and spent much time hiding the body. Also hoping that he was careless as he tends to be.
I really cannot see how some areas can be well searched. Throw a body or anything off a ravine. The side of a rough treacherous hillside or mountain is just not searchable in this short time with so few people. There has to be some evidence showing a body or somthing was so thrown not long ago. The same with dredging a river or lake. There are types of terrain one simply cannot walk through, much less searching it. Yet someone with a single minded purpose of ditching a body in there might manage to do so. Such a person only has to do it When you search you have to get every square foot to get the where he might have gone Big difference. I helped search once, and didn't feel good about it and it was an easy peasy area. I frankly don't believe LE believed we'd find a thing, was just keeping us busy.
