Jay Blanchard Park -
Greetings all, I am new to this forum, however have been following this case and checking all the forums on this case for a while as I am a local here in Central Florida. There were earlier posts regarding Jay Blanchard Park, so I thought I might chip in my 2 cents worth about this park.
My husband and I used to love to ride our bikes through Jay Blanchard Park in the early 90's and in 2003 when we lived in Orlando (living over near Cocoa Beach now). The park has a nature trail that runs through it, which allows bicyclers, roller bladers, runners and so on to share the trail. The trail also has a park like section where you can feed the ducks/birds, and they also have what I refer to as a human agility section, where you can go through this agility course for workout purposes. The trail runs along the Little Econolokhatchee river which runs throughout the far eastern side of Orlando. The Econ river has a small rain "runoff" waterfall, which could be what one earlier poster saw on Google Maps.
The only problem I see with Casey potentially putting Caylee somewhere in this park is that the park runs along side a couple of main roads (Hwy 50 and Dean Road) so there would be a lot of traffic who would see her if she was doing something suspicious, and then also the park is used by a lot of people (or it was in the past anyway). If she put her in the water then I think she would have surfaced by now. A 35 lb. body being pushed down a rain swollen river surely would have surfaced by now.
Regarding this park and something to think about though is that over the past couple of years and on 2 separate occasions, 2 young girls in their early 20's were found murdered in this same park. The killer either killed them in the park, or used the park as a "dumping ground". It's been all over the local news here for the past couple of years, so that could have given Casey and idea of where to dump a body. Plus it's not that far from her house.
Another poster had mentioned something about Casey possibly putting Caley in a dumpster in or near her boyfriend's apartment. I got to thinking about that post, and turns out there is a fairly good size outdoor mall that is not too far from Caley's house that has dumpsters all along the back side of the mall for the retailers to use. It would not have been difficult at all for her to put her in one of those, like on the morning the trash is scheduled for pick up. She lives in the area so surely she knows what day the trash runs....
If any posters on this forum have any questions regarding the local layout, parks, roads, etc., then please let me know and I'll do my best to answer your questions.