I have been reading here forever but haven't had much to add until just now.
KC says in her first phone call home "I have no clue where Caylee is. If I knew where Caylee was, do you think that any of this would be happening? No." this has bothered me for a long time because it feels like a rare honest statement but at the same time my gut feeling (heh) is that she does know where Caylee is. Until now I had been looking at that statement as if she may have had help in dumping the body. I think that idea kept me from seeing an alternative.
What we know:
-DC was poking around on Suburban and was very close to the body but did not find it (we assume).
-Parts of the body had been moved around the general area by animals and by weather.
-Neighbors said there had been a bad smell during the 31 days and that a dead dog had been found and determined to be the source of the smell.
-Hurricane Fay hit Florida August 1824
-The laundry bag was found in a depressed area, like the bottom of a big dried up puddle.
What we assume:
-KC turned onto Suburban and parked at the end of the fence, got out, walked across the small clearing, and threw the laundry bag containing Caylee into the woods.
But what if... The reason DC did not find Caylee's remains was because the info he had to go on was based on where KC entered the woods to throw in the bag? And what if KC actually parked a little further up Suburban and entered the woods from BEHIND the crime scene, rather than approaching it from the small clearing (aka "the front")? Watch the DC video: as they walk along the road they zoom the camera in on every little break in the foliage that could be a path back into the woods, but that small clearing is never shown. Why is that?
So say KC entered the woods from further up Suburban, through a small path through the trees, and dumped the bag. Animals started to prey upon the contents and drag it off. During the 31 days the neighbors say they smelled something bad. So the body was very much decomposing at that time. I assume this is when the animals would have been most attracted to the area and done most of their damage. I also assume that the first act an animal would do is to take it's piece of the body to a different location so that any other animals attracted by the smell would not get it. So lets assume the body was separated pretty soon after KC discards it.
Then say she comes back towards the end of the 31 days (for whatever reason, maybe to check her handiwork/see if she was still homefree) but she could not find the body because it was no longer where she left it (further back in the woods) due to the animals. Hence, "I have no clue where Caylee is" is both an honest and dishonest statement.
And it ties into DC because how can he (allegedly) have directionsfrom KC, be so close, know exactly what to look for and still find nothing? Notice he doesn't approach the woods from that little clearing? Wouldn't that be a logical place to look? I think it would be. It was for Kronk. Well, not for DC because he's (allegedly) following KCs directions and she didn't enter from that clearing. And due to the animals, she doesn't really know where the actual body is anymore. She can only tell him to enter the woods where she did, look for the pavers that she noted when dumping the body, and keep an eye out for the trash bag/laundry bag that she put the body in. And perhaps DC is there, not to move the body, but to find out where it went/if it's visible. Because even KC doesn't know at that point, and that scares her and Baez.
This is where Fay comes in. DC could not find the laundry bag because he was looking for it at the original dump spot but the animals had drug it into that depressed area during the 31 days and the rain from Fay had kept it submerged in the bottom of a big muddy puddle. I think in the DC video, when he is poking at the pink blanket, Caylee's skull might be directly behind him, past the spiky plants. Look at the video and note those spiky plants. Those look like the same spiky plants in the crime scene pictures, with the police's blue tent set up. I looked through the DC video and I don't think I see those kind of plants anywhere else. And note that there seems to be a path through the woods to his right (our left). This is the path I think KC walked down to dump Caylee, not through the little clearing by the fence.
I am not great at visualizing the crime scene map vs the video vs pictures, so I fully expect someone with a better understanding of it to prove me wrong. But here is the DC video (spiky plants and the path at 5:05) and the photo (I think the path is behind the blue tent, which would mean at 5:05 DC is standing somewhere behind the big tree on the left side of the crime scene picture).
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T04rfgU5E8A[/ame]
KC says in her first phone call home "I have no clue where Caylee is. If I knew where Caylee was, do you think that any of this would be happening? No." this has bothered me for a long time because it feels like a rare honest statement but at the same time my gut feeling (heh) is that she does know where Caylee is. Until now I had been looking at that statement as if she may have had help in dumping the body. I think that idea kept me from seeing an alternative.
What we know:
-DC was poking around on Suburban and was very close to the body but did not find it (we assume).
-Parts of the body had been moved around the general area by animals and by weather.
-Neighbors said there had been a bad smell during the 31 days and that a dead dog had been found and determined to be the source of the smell.
-Hurricane Fay hit Florida August 1824
-The laundry bag was found in a depressed area, like the bottom of a big dried up puddle.
What we assume:
-KC turned onto Suburban and parked at the end of the fence, got out, walked across the small clearing, and threw the laundry bag containing Caylee into the woods.
But what if... The reason DC did not find Caylee's remains was because the info he had to go on was based on where KC entered the woods to throw in the bag? And what if KC actually parked a little further up Suburban and entered the woods from BEHIND the crime scene, rather than approaching it from the small clearing (aka "the front")? Watch the DC video: as they walk along the road they zoom the camera in on every little break in the foliage that could be a path back into the woods, but that small clearing is never shown. Why is that?
So say KC entered the woods from further up Suburban, through a small path through the trees, and dumped the bag. Animals started to prey upon the contents and drag it off. During the 31 days the neighbors say they smelled something bad. So the body was very much decomposing at that time. I assume this is when the animals would have been most attracted to the area and done most of their damage. I also assume that the first act an animal would do is to take it's piece of the body to a different location so that any other animals attracted by the smell would not get it. So lets assume the body was separated pretty soon after KC discards it.
Then say she comes back towards the end of the 31 days (for whatever reason, maybe to check her handiwork/see if she was still homefree) but she could not find the body because it was no longer where she left it (further back in the woods) due to the animals. Hence, "I have no clue where Caylee is" is both an honest and dishonest statement.
And it ties into DC because how can he (allegedly) have directionsfrom KC, be so close, know exactly what to look for and still find nothing? Notice he doesn't approach the woods from that little clearing? Wouldn't that be a logical place to look? I think it would be. It was for Kronk. Well, not for DC because he's (allegedly) following KCs directions and she didn't enter from that clearing. And due to the animals, she doesn't really know where the actual body is anymore. She can only tell him to enter the woods where she did, look for the pavers that she noted when dumping the body, and keep an eye out for the trash bag/laundry bag that she put the body in. And perhaps DC is there, not to move the body, but to find out where it went/if it's visible. Because even KC doesn't know at that point, and that scares her and Baez.
This is where Fay comes in. DC could not find the laundry bag because he was looking for it at the original dump spot but the animals had drug it into that depressed area during the 31 days and the rain from Fay had kept it submerged in the bottom of a big muddy puddle. I think in the DC video, when he is poking at the pink blanket, Caylee's skull might be directly behind him, past the spiky plants. Look at the video and note those spiky plants. Those look like the same spiky plants in the crime scene pictures, with the police's blue tent set up. I looked through the DC video and I don't think I see those kind of plants anywhere else. And note that there seems to be a path through the woods to his right (our left). This is the path I think KC walked down to dump Caylee, not through the little clearing by the fence.
I am not great at visualizing the crime scene map vs the video vs pictures, so I fully expect someone with a better understanding of it to prove me wrong. But here is the DC video (spiky plants and the path at 5:05) and the photo (I think the path is behind the blue tent, which would mean at 5:05 DC is standing somewhere behind the big tree on the left side of the crime scene picture).
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T04rfgU5E8A[/ame]
eace: I guess the issue for me as this trial approaches is that I am reviewing my "assumptions" about this case as we get closer and closer to the trial date.
