There has been quite a lot of discussion, across many threads, regarding the size of the area in question.
Several members have posted great images to give folks a feel for the area, and the distances involved. I just created a handy image using
Google Satellite View, which shows the rough distances involved, give or take.
If you click on the attachment, you may use your browser's zoom option after the image opens up in a new tab.
Hope this helps. Even 6 months later I'm still picking up stuff here and there that surprises me.
If you follow the lines, I believe this is the general path taken by our perp, although I used the SE end of the bridge as a starting point for this reference. The CS area below the cemetery is where I believe BG was waiting for a victim or possible victims to cross the bridge. There, he had "concealment", to use a military term.
My BG then walks to the NW end, roughly along the path shown above, I believe when the girls were at the SE end, already. He starts his walk across the bridge, albeit a "hurried" walk, would take under 4 minutes for a healthy adult.
The scenario in the image is how I think it went down, and if you look at the distance from the CS to the south end of the cemetery, it's less than the distance from the SE end of the bridge to the CS. The entire path is less than 3/4 of a mile, the path in the image plus the path to the cemetery. The path from the CS, to the bridge, across the bridge, and back to the CS is less than a half mile!
JMO
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