OK, I am going to work tomorrow and will make some calls on my breaks. By the way, the shuttle that is launching Friday is the "Endeavour"...
I will call Yuri again but if he makes me feel slighted again, I'm done with him. A couple people called me today and told me to call LP again tonight and "not to be intimidated by him" - YA right - easy for you to say! I just don't feel that is the right avenue. I feel like I can picture him and the hat, camera crew, RD all standing around property owned privately by a CHURCH with school going on...you see it too? good! I love LP, just get the wrong feeling here. I also do not cherish the thought of being NG's "bombshell" of the week!
I feel the strongest about going in person to a church Deacon or someone and laying it all out for him. Maybe he would agree to a private and quiet search using a handful of people, possibly including the TES team leader that is local that I discussed earlier. If we make a find, THEN the LE and cavalry should come.
As far as the flip flop - this is a high school too. How many people do you remember in school walking around with one shoe because some pranksters grabbed the other one and hid it or tossed it somewhere relatively unreachable? I don't think she would have left without her second shoe...
I don't feel too strongly about the pond - but maybe the woods over the low fence around it - toss and run? Most strongly is that Hawk's Hollow. THAT is where I felt it, that stage, the woods, very easy, very smart, very accessible, not used or visited by anyone...not very big. Search wouldn't take too long with 4-5 people.