Hopefully he has shared it with the authorities. I'm grateful that he did share that little bit with the press, as I think it has kept those of us local a bit calmer in thinking that perhaps this was not a homicide...
It looks like the sister lived on Smith Rd in Hinsdale. Jackie went for a walk at 1030 in the morning and never came back. I looked on google maps and Smith Rd looks pretty rural with some residential but heavily surrounded by woods. I don’t know about trails.
Thank you. Just awful... Wonder if she had some sort of sudden physical issue, like a stroke, while out close to the house, and then just started wandering.
Thanks for that. I remember that case now. It had seemed odd that she wondered off. She apparently had gone into the back yard to look at birds. At the time, her daughter said she had gone to "check on her" mother which prompted some posters here to speculate that Jackie was not 100% mentally healthy and needed to be "checked on". Sounds like she wandered far away, but who knows....
Below is a quick article from when she went missing
Nice post @CluelessWonder Stay strong.
Thanks for that link, as I hadn't seen it and have been checking various sites all day long as the weather cleared today from rain to sun and very warm temps. I don't like the sound of "with a square mile left to go" - what does that mean?? The wooded area in the Longcope Park area extends beyond the park in all directions, heading up to the Mass Pike with what looks like dense marsh grasses/swamp and east toward the town of Lee with acres of woods, and so on. Maybe that was their search area today so saying" one square mile left" means today's result? She could have turned off her phone (or had it turned off "for her") and run, for miles. I hope that doesn't imply that they are going to give up after another square mile of searching. There have been no reports about authorities searching the Housatonic River, which would have been an easy walk for her, say 15 minutes. I'm getting updates on Albany news sites as you posted above, and the occasional Berkshire Eagle article. Last local Lee police update was March 30. If they still don't suspect foul play, it'd be nice to hear why. An absence of evidence of that doesn't mean, to me, that there was none. ? How certain are they about the last phone ping? Computer/cell phone records? They seem certain her body would now be in the immediate area, but without communication from the folks in charge I do know it's making us who are local very worried.
The article goes on to explain the the BMSR volunteers only have 1 square mile left to their search, but MA and NY have called in more manpower to assist with further searching, including a search 0f the more difficult areas in Beartown Forest. THE BMSR is a volunteer search group and they are only one group of people out there doing searches. There are several groups doing searches in other areas as well. We had a hiker in these parts survive for 26 days before she died, see Geraldine Largay, and she was found 100 yards from where three k9 teams had searched. There's every possibility that Meghan is still alive somewhere out there and will be found alive. With NY and MA and volunteer groups like BMSR, there's still hope.
We don't hear much about the Housatonic River but that's a significant concern. Lots of folks tend to end up in the water - some intentionally and some not. Obviously if she's in the water, the search area expands a lot.
I'm not sure she would have walked from Longcope to the river. Seems that she would have left her car at the Red Lion if she were headed to the river. It's just a hop and a skip down South St to get to the river. Then again, there are searches in Beartown Forest, so maybe they are also searching the river.
