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Maybe this will help with the car/tarp discussion: BBM
Owen Whiddon was riding his scooter when he spotted a gray tarp wrapped around what he suspected was a heap of trash wrapped tightly with a belt at Roundrock Drive and Cindy Lane. He alerted his mother, Katie Whiddon.
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Owen tried to move it, but it was too heavy. He looked under the tarp and saw a little girl, her head covered with a bag. She was not fully clothed and her arms and legs appeared to be bound.
http://www.dallasnews.com/news/metr...th-of-young-girl-dumped-on-saginaw-street.ece
ETA: I am wondering why this would be "too heavy" for a 14 yr old. Alanna was not a large child- and just turned 6. She probably weighed 60 pounds at the most.
"The average 6-year-old is about 42 inches tall and weighs almost 50 pounds."
http://www.babycenter.com/6_your-6-year-old-growing-up_10329817.bc
bolded blue by me: I think maybe it was just heavier and had a different "feel" to it than what he was expecting. Also, lifting 50-60 pounds up from the ground ... that does take a little heave-ho, I think, for almost anybody. That's like a jumbo sack of dog food -- pretty hard to first get it hoisted up, even if you can carry it pretty easily once you do.